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.
Setting BIOS
- It is not enough to set jumpers on a hard disk and connect it to data and power cables. It is necessary to correctly configure the installed hard disk in the BIOS (Basic Input/Output System).
You can get to the BIOS setting program by pressing a combination of keys that is shown on the screen right after turning your computer on.
Hard disks are configured in the BIOS menu called Standard CMOS Setup. If you set the jumper on a hard disk to Slave position and connected a data cable to Primary IDE socket on a system board, most likely, it would be enough to set TYPE and MODE parameters to AUTO for a disk designated in the menu as Primary Slave. (It is enough for BIOS to correctly identify and configure a modern model of a new disk.) - Having configured a new disk in BIOS, save changes made.
- Note
• For more information about BIOS settings and also about possible concomitant errors (and error messages) see section A.3 BIOS (and especially about errors: Hard Disk Initialization Errors)
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