Best Partitioning Software - EASEUS Partition Master

When you want to resize partition, how do you deal with that? Ask Google? Or computer expert? This article helps you manage hard drive easily, no matter you decide to Resize and Move, Copy, Create, Delete, Format, Convert, Explore, Hide and Unhide server and non-server partitions.

In my opinion, according to the existing technology, you need to know how to use both partitioning software and Disk Management utility to partition your hard drive.

1, Disk Management Tool. Windows XP's Disk Management utility allows you to perform some basic partition management, such as creating, deleting and formatting partitions, etc. Windows Vista's Disk Management console tool will also allow you to resize your partitions on hard disk. In other words, with this utility, you can shrink, extend, create, and format partitions without putting your data in jeopardy. Of course, before you perform any of these operations, you should back up you data to avoid data loss.

2, Partitioning Software. Here we highly recommend you to use easy-to-use partitioning software with more advanced partitioning operations - EASEUS Partition Master to manage your partitions.

Generally speaking, EASEUS Partition Master is comprehensive hard disk partition management software for Windows Server 2000/2003/2008 and Windows 2000/XP/Vista/Windows 7 partition to Resize and Move, Copy, Create, Delete and Format, Convert, Explore, Hide and Unhide server and non-server partitions and much more. You just need to choose the right version of EASEUS Partition Master.

Though there are many different partitioning software in the market, EASEUS Partition Master has the best cost effectiveness. EASEUS Partition Master has five editions: Home Edition (free for home users), Professional Edition (for 64 bit desktop users), Server Edition (for Windows Server users), Unlimited Edition (for multiple server and PC users from a large enterprise) and Technician Edition (for IT Consultant).

According to our investigation, about 85% partitioning software users use partitioning software mainly to resize partition. Here we take resizing partition using EASEUS Partition Master Professional Edition for example.

1. Select the hard disk and a partition to be resized.

2. Click Partitions > Resize / Move.

3. On a disk map, current size of the partition is displayed on the top of the dialog box. The map also depicts the used and unused space within the partition and the free space surrounding the partition (if any exists). The minimum and maximum sizes that you can resize a partition appear below the map.

4. Position the mouse pointer on the left or right partition handle.

5. The mouse pointer changes to a double-headed arrow.

6. Drag the handle to the partition size you want.

7. Click OK.

For better data security, you may also use the free backup software - EASEUS Todo Backup, which will help you a lot. It provides easy-to-use interface to backup and restore your system, disk and partition within minutes.

Tips:

In step 6, you can also resize FAT32/NTFS partition by specifying new values for the Unallocated Space Before, Partition Size, and Unallocated Space After in text boxes. The values you type may change slightly to values supported by your drive's geometry.

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