Main Display


Main Window Screenshot

  1. The Toolbar

    The toolbar contains buttons for some of the common things you might want to do.

    Click the Partition Map, Operations and Info buttons will display/hide utility panels. See below.

  2. The Disk List

    This pane displays all the disks on your system. Select the disk you want to view and edit here.

  3. The Pie Chart

    This displays the partitions for the currently selected disk. Note that unless you have enabled the option to view system partitions, they will not be shown (you wouldn’t normally want them to be shown).

    The pie chart shows the total amount of free space on the disk in black. Note that the free space might not be in one contiguous block so if you try and resize a partition to use the free space, iPartition might need to move partitions (iPartition does this automatically).

    You can click on a partition on the pie chart and then iPartition will display a slider that will allow you to resize the partition (if that’s what you want to do).

    For particularly small partitions, iPartition might make the partitions bigger than they would be otherwise so that they are a practical size for manipulating them within the pie chart.

  4. The Partition List

    This lists the partitions for the current selected disk.

    You can select a partition in the list for subsequent manipulation. Holding down Ctrl and clicking the mouse in the list will present a menu with some of the operations you might want to perform.

  5. Here you can create a new partition or click on the cog, which will present a menu of operations you might want to perform.

  6. The Status Bar

    The status bar will indicate whether there are any warnings for the currently selected disk and the amount of free space available.

    When you are in the process of resizing a partition, it will display the current size of the partition along with the minimum and maximum sizes.

    When you first access a disk, iPartition may take some time to analyse the disk and this will be indicated in the status bar. Whilst iPartition is doing this you will not be able to make any modifications to the disk.

The Warnings Window

The Warnings window will list any issues that iPartition has detected for the currently selected disk.

Warnings Screenshot

If iPartition had discovered inconsistencies with any of the volumes on the disk, they would be displayed here. Note that even if no warnings are listed, we would still advise you to check your volumes for errors before running iPartition. iPartition is not a disk repair or verification utility.

The Operations Window

The Operations window displays the list of queued operations that will be performed after you click the Go button.

Operations Screenshot

You can display/hide this panel by using the option in the toolbar or menu. It’s a good idea to check this window before committing the operations to make sure iPartition has queued the operations you want. Some of the operations, such as moving partitions, are added automatically.

You can also select any operation and delete it if you don’t want it. If you do that, iPartition will also remove any operations that depend on the operation you deleted. For instance, if you delete a “Create” operation, any other operations on that partition will be deleted automatically also. If you delete an operation and then change your mind, you can select the Undo option from the Edit menu.

The Partition Map Window

Partition Map Screenshot

The Partition Map window gives you a detailed picture of your disk. On the left hand side you will see a scale representation of your disk and how each section of your disk maps to an entry in the partition table.

You can edit some parts of the partition table directly by selecting the field you want to modify.

Unlike other parts of iPartition, changes to the sizes you make will not cause iPartition to automatically move partitions and that means that you’ll only be able to increase the size of a partition by the amount of free space that follows. The partition map window is most useful when you need complete control over your partition map.

The Inspector

You can display/hide the Inspector by selecting the Info button or choosing the option from the View menu.

Inspector Screenshot

The Inspector will show you information for the selected disk, partition and filesystem (if it’s a filesystem that iPartition understands).

You can make changes to many fields in the Inspector. For example, you can resize a partition by altering the size field for the partition. Some of the Extended Properties listed in the partition tab are also modifyable. The “Visible in Windows” partition property that you get with GUID partition schemes is one such property.

On the Disk tab, you can change the partition scheme.