Partition Magic - Partition Manager Software
Extend partition with one step
Resize/Move partition without data loss.
Create, delete and format partion with simple steps. Copy partition and disk to transfer data with ease. Support disk and partition size larger than 2 TB. Keep your data safe even in case of power outages or hardware failure.
Resize/Move partition without data loss.
Create, delete and format partion with simple steps. Copy partition and disk to transfer data with ease. Support disk and partition size larger than 2 TB. Keep your data safe even in case of power outages or hardware failure.
Hard Disk Partitions
- Partitioning hard disk is done by special applications. In MS-DOS and Windows a widely known FDISK program is used for this purpose. It allows creating partitions, setting their size and labels. FDISK allows allocating either all hard disk space or part of it for MS-DOS or Windows, and leave some part of it for other operating systems.
FDISK can perform the following functions:
• create a primary DOS partition containing one logical disk
• create an Extended Partition that can be broken into any number of logical partitions (disks)
• mark a partition as active (only one primary partition can be active)
Additional partitions can be created in the unallocated disk space with tools from other operating systems (OS/2, Linux).
Note
• Information about partitions on a hard disk is stored in a special disk area - in the 1st sector of the 0th cylinder, header 0, which is called a Partition Table. This sector is called the Master Boot Sector or Master Boot Record, MBR.
• A physical hard disk can contain up to 4 primary partitions. This limitation is due only to the capacity of the Partition Table, which itself consists of only four partitions. However, it does not that you can install only 4 different operating systems! Actually modern software - the so-called disk managers - allows installing many more operating systems. For example, OS Selector disk manager, which was also developed by Acronis, allows installing up to 100 operating systems on one hard disk!
Partitioning hard disks is a feature that is available in all operating systems.
Beginning the Work
Automatic partition operations
- Create partition method
- Hard disk drive selection
- Select unallocated space
- Partition selection
- Partition size
- Partition type
- File system
- Logical drive letter
- Partition label
- Hard disk drive structure
Manual partition operations
- Creating partition
- Copying a partition to unallocated disk space
- Moving a partition to unallocated disk space
- Resizing and/or moving a partition
- Splitting partitions
- Changing partition labels
- Merging partitions
- Explore partitions
- Formatting a partition
- Delete partition
- Checking hard disk partitions for errors
- Defragmenting a partition
- Wiping unallocated hard disk space
- Clearing a hard disk
- Changing partition letter
- Converting partition file system
- Copying Master Boot Record
- Hiding a partition
- Unhiding a partition
- Changing cluster size
- Changing partition type
- Setting active partition
- Resizing a root
- Resizing i-node table in Linux Ext2/Ext3
Working with Acronis DiskEditor
- Files and partitions
- Connecting a hard disk to the computer
- Setting BIOS
- User interface
- Technical support
- Selecting partitions (disks) for working
- Master Boot Record (MBR)
- Creating primary partition
- Formatting a partition
- Creating a logical partition
- File Allocation Table (FAT) and Root folder (Root)
- A file as a chain of clusters
- A folder in DiskEditor main window
- Files with short names
- Files with long names
- Folders and subfolders