Optimize Your Hard Drive With Free Partition Recovery Utility Software

The partition recovery utility permits users to make, resize, move, concatenate, copy and undelete partitions on their hard disk/s. For example, if the user wishes to make more partitions from the present one that they already have on the disk, these tools will permit him to resize the partition and thus create enough space for more partitions to be made, without compromising the data that is presently on their existing partition. These tools can also help the user in making, and at times also formatting, new partitions. Most of these tools are able to slide the partition, which means to move the present partition from one particular place on the disk to another place without losing data. These tools can also transform a partition from one kind to another; for example, transform it from NTFS to FAT32 or vice versa. Still others may be able to assist the user in recovering partitions that they have already erased, which is undeleting partitions.

If the user desires an advertised tool to supervise their partitions, one famous and well-liked partition management utility is Acronis Disk Director Suite.

This has a host of partition management tools, like the ability to make, resize, move, divide partitions, merge partitions, clone or copy partitions, edit unprocessed sectors on their partitions and hard disks, format partitions, transform partitions, change cluster sizes of partitions, boot several operating systems, and even recover or repair damaged partition tables.

Another advertized tool accessible for managing, booting and imaging various partitions is Terabytes Unlimited’s BootItiNG. It is only lately that users became familiar with Paragon Hard Disk Manager, which aside from being partitioning software, is also a backup and imaging program.

The older Symantec’s Norton Partition Magic 8.0 can also be used to resize, create, move, split partitions, merge partitions, undelete and transform partitions. Other examples are Disk Director and BootItNG, which also comes with a boot manager that permits users to boot from different drives and control several operating systems on a single computer.

Cute Partition Manager

Cute Partition Manager is a freeware application that permits users to make up to 100 partitions per hard disk, delete partitions, convert the boot flag and kinds of partitions, and more. The download is a Windows executable that makes the Cute Partition Manager bootable CD.

The user will have to boot his computer using the bootable CD and run the partition manager from there.

G-Parted CD

GParted is a popular Linux application that permits the users to make, delete, resize several partition types, move some partition types, copy and check partitions on their hard disk. This version of GParted comes in the form of an ISO for a CD, which the user can burn to to make a bootable CD from which he can adjust his hard disk partitions. GParted also supports the following partition types to different degrees , which are ext2, ext3, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, HFS, HFS+, JFS, linux swap, ReiserFS, Reiser4, and XFS.

Partition Logic

Partition Logic permits the users to make, delete, format and move partitions and adjust their attributes. It can also copy hard disks, that is, create a copy of a whole hard disk onto another hard disk. It boots from a CD or a floppy disk and runs as an independent system. At the time this was written, it had some limitations, including the capability to only format FAT partitions, the inability to partition SCSI hard disks, the lack of support for USB mice and keyboards, and more.