There’s a list of tasks to the left and a pane displaying your system’s drives and partitions to the right. Partition Assistant’s interface will be familiar to anyone who’s used such a utility in the last decade or so.

Partition Assistant provides wizards for many tasks, but the main window disappearing is a bit of a visual jolt. But those are undeniably handy features for IT types that need to manipulate and maintain drives and partitions on a regular basis. If all that sounds rather esoteric, you don’t need the professional version. The Pro version adds the ability to convert Windows dynamic disks to basic disks, change partitions from logical to primary, alter partition IDs and serial numbers, convert disks from MBR to GPT and back again, as well as allocate free space from one partition to another.