EASY TOOL FOR PARTITION ==partition wizard

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A partition manager for home users

Partition Wizard Home Edition is a free partition manager designed by MT Solution Ltd. Home users can perform complicated partition operations by using this powerful but free partition manager to manage their hard disk partition such as Resizing partitions, Copying partitions, Create partition, Delete partition, Format partition, Convert partition, Explore partition, Hide partition, Change drive letter, Set active partition and Partition Recovery. Even the inexperienced users will be able to easily manage their partitions.

NOTE: Free for non-commercial uses only

Here are some key features of "Partition Wizard Home Edition":

· Support RAID.

· Extend system partition to improve computer performance to maximum.

· Manage the hard disk to get the best performance of computer.

· Create , Delete and Format partitions with simple steps.

· Disk Copy to protect or transfer data.

· Support disk and partition size larger than 2 TB.

· Convert partition format from FAT to NTFS.

· Partition Copy: Copy the entire hard disk to another one.

· Copy Disk Wizard: Copy the entire hard disk to another one without windows reinstalling.

· Disk Map - Visually demonstrate your disk / partition configuration; preview the changes before applying.

· Hide/unhide partition, set active partition, etc. - Change partition properties.

· Explore FAT/NTFS partition.

Requirements:

· x86 or compatible CPU with main frequency 500MHz

· Capacity of RAM memory above 256M

Limitations:

· Merge function is not available

STEPS INVOLVED IN PARTITION

Move/Resize Partition

There are several ways to start Move/Resize operation:
- 1. Select the partition you would like to move or resize » click Partitions in the top menu » click Move/Resize.
- 2. Select the partition you would like to move or resize » click the Move/Resize Partition button in the Tool Bar.
- 3. Select the partition you would like to move or resize » click the Move/Resize Partition button under Partition Operations in the Action Panel.
If the space of the partition is not enough, you can shrink the free space in other partitions to enlarge the capacity of this partition. In this case, the security of data is ensured.
Your data would not be destroyed or go missing when enlarging, shrinking or moving partitions around.
What's more, under Enhanced Data Protecting Mode, you can execute the Move/Resize operation to system partitions or boot partition without harming the data.
About Enhanced Data Protecting Mode
- 1. This function is an advanced security measure designed to protect your data when executing the operation of Move/Resize. Even in the event of a power failure or hard ware failure, you can be ensured that your data are completely safe. For some extreme conditions, such as if the partition suffers from unknown failure, you can also use command chkdsk.exe /F in Windows to recover your data. This feature is exclusive to Partition Wizard.
- 2. The handling partition should have enough space compared to those partitions not use this function.
- 3. Note: If the capacity of partition changes, Partition Wizard will defined the type of FAT according to the new capacity of the partitions. For instance, FAT12, FAT16, FAT32.
How to extend system partition?
Following sample shows you how to extend the system partition by using Partition Wizard.

Case study:
Disk is configured as 2 partitions. Partition C & D. C is system partition. Goal is to extend 7 GB free space to partition C.

Step 1: Create 7GB free space
Shrink drive D to get 7 GB free space between drive C and drive D. Please select drive D from Partition Wizard, and click Move/Resize button from the toolbar. You will see the popup window like the following screenshot. And then drag the left border of the partition to the right to shrink this partition. And then click OK button.

Step 2: 7 GB unallocated space is created between drive C & drive D. And then please select drive C, and click "Move/Resize" button from the toolbar again.

Step 3. Position the mouse pointer to the right edge of the partition. Please drag mouse to the right to extend C partition when the mouse pointer changes to a double-headed arrow. And then click OK button.

And then you could see your drive C is extended

Step 3:Click Apply button.

Merge Partition

Merge Partition function can help you merge two adjacent partitions. This function only works for NTFS partitions. If your partition is FAT12/FAT16/FAT32, please use "Convert FAT to NTFS" function of Partition Wizard, convert partition to NTFS partition.

To start merging partition, please click Merge from the Partition menu. Alternatively, you can start merging partition by clicking Merge Partition from the Action Panel.

Step one: Select partition you like to expand from the partition list. This partition will be expanded to include all content from the adjacent partition which will be selected in the second step.

Step two: Select an adjacent partition that will be merged to the previous partition. All data of this partition will be merged to the expanding partition that selected in the first step.

Step three: Choose a name for the new folder.

The drive E will be expanded to 139.54 GB. And the data of drive F will be stored to the e:\merged_partition_content.

Copy Partition

There are three ways to start the Copy Partition function:
1. Click Partitions in the top menu » click Copy.
2. Click the button Copy in the Tool Bar.
3. Click Copy partition under the group Partition Operations in the Action panel.
This function can help you to copy the selected partition to the free space of a disk. Target disk can be the disk containing the selected partition or a different disk.

The procedure to Copy Partition is listed below.
- a. First select the original partition. This is partition you want to copy.
- b. Select the free space where you would like to copy the partition.
- c. Preview and set the capacity and location of the new partition, then set the type of the new partition.
- Tip: when you cancel Copy the partition with resize, Partition Wizard will clone the original partition to the new partition.
Explore Partition
You can explore partitions to ensure that it is the one you want to modify. You can do this by using the Explore Partition function. There are three ways to initiate this function:
- 1. Select the desired partition, click Explore Partition under Partitions Operations in the Action Panel.
- 2. Select the desired partition, click Partitions in the top menu, then click Explore.
- 3. Double click the partition you want to check in the Partition list.
Partition Explorer will show the size of the files, revise time, create time and file trees. The present edition of Partition Wizard only support the exploration of FAT12, FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS file systems.