How To Create, Resize, Move, Shrink And Format Hard Drive Partition
If you happened to be running out of disk space and does not want to format your computer hard disk, why not shrink or increase your disk partition? With Partition Manager 9, you are now able to allocate the specific amount of disk space without formatting your disk. Partition Manager 9.0 Express (freeware) is free for non-commercial use, it has the basic covered, such as creating, formating, moving and resizing your partitions.
- Create and format partitions.
- Move and resize partitions.
- Windows XP and Vista (32-bit only)
As shown in the screenshot, the user interface is really simple and easy to understand. It comes with Auxiliary Facilities, which helps you to create a Linux/DOS bootable media, which can later be used to boot and automatically complete a data-sensitive operation (resize, move) abruptly interrupted as a result of a hardware malfunction, power outage or an OS failure, thus reviving the corrupted partition or just launch utilities under these operating systems.
Supported File Systems are NTFS (v1.2, v3.0, v3.1), FAT16 and FAT32. Supported Operating Systems are Windows Vista (32 bit), Windows XP Professional SP2 (32-bit) and Windows XP Home SP2.
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Norton PartitionMagic 8.0 | Price: $79
Norton PartitionMagic is capable of resizing NTFS or FAT (16 or 32) partitions without data loss, and can copy and move partitions, including to other disks. It also has various other features, including being able to convert between FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS, modify the cluster size of FAT16/32 and NTFS filesystems, and merge adjacent FAT or NTFS filesystems (all without data loss, though some NTFS-only metadata is lost on conversion to FAT).
Key Technologies
- Partitions hard drive
- Create, resize, copy partitions
- Run multiple operating systems
Features
- Divides hard drive into two or more partitions
- Runs multiple operating systems on the same PC
- BootMagic™ makes it easy to switch between operating systems
- Copy, move, resize, split, or merge partitions
- Guides you through the partitioning process
- Easy to find, copy and paste files in both Windows® and Linux® partitions
- Create and modify partitions up to 300GB*
- Supports USB 2.0, USB 1.1, and FireWire® external drives**
- Supports and converts partitions among FAT, FAT32, NTFS, Ext2, and Ext3 file systems
- Enlarge an NTFS partition without restarting computer
- Resizes NTFS system clusters to the most effective size
Acronis® Disk Director Suite 10.0 | Price: $49
Acronis on the other hand is slightly cheaper, Acronis® Disk Director Suite 10.0 is the easiest and most convenient partition manager and hard disk toolkit. It brings together the most popular disk management functions, partition recovery tools, and boot disk manager in one suite.
I’ve tried both Norton PartitionMagic and Acronis Disk Director and found that Acronis’s boot from CD/DVD feature is pretty awesome, it creates a bootable CD/DVD and it will automatically be detected and displayed as a boot option by Acronis OS Selector. Norton has the same feature but Acronis’s OS Selector is my first choice, comes in handy if you happen to be a geek with MacOS, Linux and Windows running on the same comp.
Windows Disk management | Price: FREE
Free stuff, nothing beats freeware. Stop Google for Norton PartitionMagic 8 crack or serial, here is a free partition tool, this method only works if you happen to have an unallocated partition, possible due to some error or you’ve deleted a partition. Windows Disk Management allows the creation of partition within the unallocated space.
1. Go to ‘Control Panel’ then click on ‘administrative tools’
2. Next, click on ‘Computer Management’
3. Select the unallocated partition and create a new partition.
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