Tag: PARTITION

GParted is an extremely handy LiveCD to keep in your technician's toolbox, and its new version features one very major addition: GParted 0.8 can now help you recover data from lost partitions. After analyzing your drive and doing its best to resurrect missing information from the partition table, GParted will now let you mount partitions it finds in read-only mode so you can copy your data to ...

Easeus Partition Master has always been a great little app. It's a powerful yet easy-to-use disk partitioning tool that makes managing your hard disks a breeze. Better still, it runs right in Windows -- handy for people like me who always miss the 'Press F11 for boot menu' prompt. There was one big downside to the free version, however: it didn't support 64-bit versions of Windows. That's all ...

I've written about Easeus Partition Manager before - it's one of my two favorite post-install tech tools. There's one downside to the free version, however: it doesn't support 64-bit operating systems. And that's kind of a bad thing. The majority of the customers I've seen purchase a new system in the last 6 months have wound up with either 64-bit Vista or Windows 7. On top of that, the free ...

Paragon has long been a name respected by technicians and IT professionals. Their latest release is aimed squarely at home users, and it's a program well worth trying out. Backup & Recovery 10 Free Edition is an excellent, multi-talented hard drive management app. So, what can you do with it? For starters, it will create and restore images of your hard drives and partitions. There's also ...

Since a lot of you weren't (and still aren't) too excited about Windows Vista, you might not have noticed the exFAT file system before. It's the heir apparent to FAT32, and it can finally cope with large files and drives. What's new? For starters, exFAT has been tweaked to provide faster access and allocation, adds support for UTC time stamps, and provides increased compatability with flash media. ...

We received a question from one of our readers the other day asking about an easy way to resize his 500GB data drive to make room for a Windows 7 install. This got me thinking about two tools that I've been using a lot lately: Easeus Partition Manager and Macrium Reflect. If you play with a lot of operating systems, keeping a good set of images (or a stockpile of extra hard drives) around is a ...

There are things you definitely don't want to get after their expiration date. Milk, egg, and bread come to mind. But then there are Power Bars and other processed foods that taste exactly the same years after their expiration date has come and gone. Not that we'd know. It turns out you can get a free copy of Paragon Hard Disk Manager that's a little past its prime as well. Although the free ...

One of the best and handiest tools in the power user's toolbox is GParted. I've written about it before, and the short version is this: GParted is an open source Linux app for modifying your hard drive's partitions without losing any data. It has support for a huge number of file systems, including those belonging to Windows, and though it's not as easy to use as some commercial solutions, it has ...

Looking for a fast and free non-destructive, graphical disk partitioning tool? Yes, such a thing does exist: Its GParted, short for Gnome Partition Editor, an open-source tool for Linux. Okay, so most of you aren't Linux users--why should you care? Well, because GParted will resize your FAT32 and NTFS partitions (as well as about 10 other formats) and it comes in install-free LiveCD and USB drive ...

Last summer I posted about a driver that'll let you access Linux ext2 partitions under Windows, which is still handy, but what if your Linux partition uses ReiserFS? Well, for that there's Mark Piper's RFSD, a driver for Windows that lets you access your ReiserFS partitions as though they were ordinary FAT or NTFS drives. The project is a bit stalled, but the drivers work, so it might be just the ...