The Good
* Straightforward and fairly easy to use.
* Has the typical partition management tools (resize, format, delete, etc.).
* Supports Windows and Linux filesystems (FAT, FAT32, NTFS, EXT2/EXT3).
* Supports internal and external hard drives/devices.
* Users can change the letter and name of a partition, convert primary partition to logical partition and vice versa, and hide/unhide partitions.
* Users can copy a whole hard drive or partition.
* Supports hardware RAID.
* Supports MBR and GPT volumes.
* Works on hard disks of upto 2 TB in size.
* Has "error checking" features.
* Has the ability to copy dynamic disks.
* Has the ability to recover deleted/lost partitions.
* Has the ability to defrag partitions.
* Has the abilty to "rebuild MBR".
* Has the ability to securely delete/wipe hard drives and partitions.
* Users can create a Linux-based bootable disk.
* Users can password protect the program.

The Bad
* No support for Mac filesystems or EXT4 Linux filesystem.
* The defrag feature does not allow the user to view any sort of "analysis" before conducting the actual defrag.
* Users can only defrag single partitions at a time.
* Only supports Linux-based bootable disk; does not support WinPE.
* Lacks the ability to create a bootable USB/flash drive.
* Bootable disk has some limitations, such as no defrag feature.
* The program window always opens up fully maximized.

Free Alternatives
EASEUS Partition Master Home Edition
Paragon Partition Manager Free Edition

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Ashraf  –  15 years ago  –  Avez-vous trouver ce commentaire utile ? oui | non (+123)

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used the free d/l version to save a 160 gb firewire hdd that had data, programs, files, docs and tns of other things collected over several years. the mbr (master boot record) for the drive had become corrupted and the drive no longer showed under my computer but was shown under device manager. was able to repair the mbr, reover all the files to dvd's and reformatted the drive which works perfectly once again. recommend this to anyone who wants to save any hdd if it can be saved by repairing the mbr. top not h software, in my humble opinion. get it while you can. it's worth having.

charles  –  15 years ago  –  Avez-vous trouver ce commentaire utile ? oui | non (+43)

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I've used this in the past,from a magazine giveaway. Very reliable.
I still have it in my programs. Backup your data first. I tried to do too many tasks first time I used it and wiped my hard drive clean. A backup saved me. One task at a time and it works beautifully.

Hrad  –  15 years ago  –  Avez-vous trouver ce commentaire utile ? oui | non (+32)

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I won't have time to evaluate all of the features of EASEUS Partition Master 6.5.1, but I can tell you some things about EASEUS and other products and issues related to disk management. I'm finally upgrading to Win7x64 now that Microsoft has released various patches, such as proper support for greater than 2TB volumes, and I've managed to get some utility vendors to fix the problems with their products, especially on Vista and higher. In the past, EASEUS hasn't supported some USB devices, but this version claims to. I wanted a clean copy of Vista x32 before upgrading, and that involved a special system recovery partition on my system drive. Paragon failed miserably, but EASEUS and StorageCraft ShadowProtect Desktop had no problems dealing with the special partition. EASEUS performed the partition copy at boot time, which made me a little nervous because it didn't display useful status information during that time, and I had a lot of very high-capacity drives connected, but it appeared to do the copy correctly. Giveaway versions will never include WinPE boot disks because of licensing issues. Paragon uses outdated WinPE boot disks, a couple of generations old. ShadowProtect uses WinPE3/2008/Win7 boot disks, which work great. GPT volumes are required for greater than 2TB volumes, and have useful improvements, but support isn't so hot across the board, especially if you try to copy/restore a GPT volume to another drive. I installed a TRIM-enabled SSD as my system volume, which is extremely fast in Win7, but doesn't have much capacity. I installed four 2TB disks to use as RAID volumes using Intel Rapid Storage Technology 9.6, which permits multiple types of RAID volumes on the same drive set. I wanted some RAID 10 and some RAID 5 volumes. First problem right off the bat, I didn't need to worry about the GPT vs. MBR issue, because my Intel RAID Option ROM doesn't support greater than 2TB RAID volumes. Out of 8TB raw, I created a relatively small 200GB RAID 10 volume, which took longer than I expected to create (definitely going to be a problem for larger volumes). The whole point of higher RAID versions is to allow at least one drive to die without impact, and adding a replacement drive isn't supposed to impact performance either, as the rebuilding process is supposed to occur in the background. It turns out that a data cable to one of the drives is defective (major headache considering how much of the computer I'm going to have to disassemble to get to it), so that drive dropped out on reboot. So that tested RAID single-drive failure handling. Intel Rapid Storage Technology failed miserably. Win7 boot was held while the Intel RAID tried to deal with the issue, which shouldn't have caused any problems. After many hours longer than the original volume took to create, it was still churning away on the empty RAID volume, preventing Windows from booting. I had to give up, no telling how long it would have taken, and clearly utilizing all 8TB could have prevented use of the computer for a week or more. So I'm going to replace the cable, but create small RAID volumes of various types, then pull the plug on one of the drives and see if it can handle the drive failure correctly. Obviously, if Intel Rapid Storage Technology can't handle a RAID drive failure correctly, then there's no point in using RAID.

Fubar  –  15 years ago  –  Avez-vous trouver ce commentaire utile ? oui | non (+23)

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I had installed previous version 5.x.x pro from GAOD and using it for a while. I have tried all available soft wares as i am fond of trying each. Though i dont write up, this one is my fav.
I have never find any sw uninstaller as simple, fast as these guyz. It was almost clean uninstall.
Installed - gone smooth and the interface havent changed much, yet added few more new interesting features. I cant try it out at 3.30AM morning. But i hope they work as well. I am eager to try the flash drive options.
If you are a regular joe, have this in your machine, it is worth it. If you are a techie, i know you wont like to miss.

You never know when you need*(it has a recovery wizard inbuilt). Good night.

Selva  –  15 years ago  –  Avez-vous trouver ce commentaire utile ? oui | non (+21)

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