NB – There is no formal “free trial” of MiniTool Partition Wizard Professional, the free version does, however, allow for the professional tools to be previewed once installed and in use. I f you are interested in the Professional version of the tool then it is still worth downloading and installing this free version first as it will effectively serve as a preview to the Professional version (given that the many tools are still visible in the free software, but won’t actually work until a licence is purchased).

Installing Partition Wizard begins at the official MiniTool website where either the free version of the tool or the full professional version can be downloaded. This business version will not be covered within this particular review!

NB – There is also a business focused version of MiniTool Partition Wizard which features additional support for servers, RAID arrays etc. Partition Wizard Professional build s upon this core free functionality and, thanks to tools including disk and partition recovery, recovery media building and disk / system migration tools, helps to form one of the most powerful disk and partition management utilities available as of today! Partition Wizard Free is therefore a great addition to any Windows PC for anyone looking for reliable software to manage a disk and its partitions in a powerful yet user friendly way. Whilst the free version of Partition Wizard does indeed provide a very useful core set of disk partitioning features, the professional version builds strongly upon this base by adding even more functionality including disk cloning, data recovery, multiple format conversion options, system recovery and system migration amongst several other important additions.

Commercial usage (Professional version onwards).

Disk / partition copy and OS migration functionality.

Here is a (non-exhaustive) list of some of the notable features missing in the free version versus the Professional version : Before getting into the main Partition Wizard software itself, I am going to compare the free version of this tool and its underlying functionality with that of the p rofessional version (which is priced at $59 / year including ongoing support and upgrades).

Minitool free