CNET Editors' review
A plucky little piece of freeware that packs a subtle punch, Easeus Partition Manager partitions hard drives like a reigning champ. Loaded with features, EPM runs smoothly and lacks only a glitzy interface.
A row of task icons sits on the toolbar, followed by a Windows XP-style left nav and central pane that shows your hard drives and information about them. To partition a disk, click on one of the drives and then use either the toolbar or the context menu to run the Resize feature. This brings up a slider for adjusting the drive volume sizes. You can also use the text fields to set a partition size precisely. Hit OK to run the resizing, and then run the Create feature. This will allow you format and label the partition in the newly-created empty space. While running, EPM will keeps you informed of the progress of the overall task, as well as the multiple steps it takes in partitioning your drive. A helpful color-key lives in the status bar at the bottom, divvying up drives by type as well as allocation use.
Other useful features include partition copying, a boot disk creator, a Properties option that will tell you everything from the physical geometry of the drive to the serial number, drive letter swapping, and password protection. In testing these features, the only glitch encountered occurred when a task had completed and the program window hid behind other active program windows. This did not, however, affect the use or execution of EPM, and we recommend it unequivocally for partitioning tasks.
Publisher's Description
From Chengdu Yiwo Tech Development:
As Partition Magic alternative, EaseUS Partition Master Home Edition is a ALL-IN-ONE partition solution and disk management freeware. It allows you to extend partition (especially for system drive), manage disk space easily, settle low disk space problem on MBR and GUID partition table (GPT) disk under Windows 2000/XP/Vista/Windows 7 (SP1 included) 32 bit and 64 bit system. Easeus Partition Master Home Edition is an all-in-one partition solution and disk management freeware. It allows you to extend partition (especially for system drive), manage disk space easily, settle low disk space problem on MBR and GUID partition table (GPT) disk under Windows 2000/XP/Vista/Windows 7 (SP1 included) 32 bit and 64 bit system. Three main features: Partition Manager, Partition Recovery Wizard and Disk & Partition Copy to solve all partition problems under hardware RAID, MBR & GPT disks, removable devices. The program allows you to drag and drop on the disk map to simplify your job. It doesn't require a reboot when extending NTFS partition to minimize computer downtime. New feature:
Upgrade system disk to a bigger one with one-click
What's new in this version:
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All versions:
4.2 starsout of 946 votes
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Current version:
4.5 starsout of 67 votes
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"great program as usual from easeus, no problems"
Version: EaseUS Partition Master Home Edition 9.1
Pros
does all it says, very simple and really works
Cons
none as far as i can see
Summary
as usual would not be without this, simple to use, anyone can understand it, brilliant program for anyone
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"for what i wanted to do this worked very well."
Version: EaseUS Partition Master Home Edition 9.1
Pros
i had to merge two partitions.this software had no problem doing what i needed to do.would use easeus again if i should ever have another problem.thanks
Cons
i found no difficultys with this software.
Summary
check it out and see.
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"best recovery program by far"
Version: EaseUS Partition Master Home Edition 9.1
Pros
1- IT WORKS
2- easy to use
3- free for homeCons
1- non I found yet
Summary
I had a 2tb HD almost full with information I have gathered and organized for the past few years. I plugged it via ISB to another drive and was careless enough to click yes to a pop-up I did not read and all of a sudden my HD said unallocated space. Like if the drive was brand new. I tried another recovery program that found the data but wanted to recover by copying the data to another drive which if it worked I was fine with. I left the program recovering overnight and the next morning it has recovered less than .2%. I then used easeUS, it found the drive, recovered it without copying any data to another drive all within 45 minutes at most. I love this program and will recommend it to anyone. It saved my life!!!!!
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"Good and simple and effective"
Version: EaseUS Partition Master Home Edition 9.1
Pros
No complications , no "convert to dynamic disk"
all in one go
resize the disk once and then allocate it. then click "apply" on file menu(i think)
it will ask for reboot, then while rebooting it will make it proper and finalize it. Done !Cons
None as i can think of. :)
Summary
GO for it... simple..effective....free !!
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"Worked great on a number of XP machines"
Version: EaseUS Partition Master Home Edition 9.1
Pros
Very easy to use. Worked flawlessly with VMware ESXi VM's. Doesn't require a reboot. Zero downtime while running.
Cons
Didn't work on an old NT 4.0 box. Would be nice to have it as a standalone executable instead of having to be installed to run once, then uninstalled.
Summary
I had about a dozen VM's that were running low on C: space. Although I could easily expand the allocated space within VMware, the partition doesn't magically expand to match. This utility filled that gap and easily expanded the boot partition to the larger available size.
All that partition rearranging and I didn't even have to reboot any of the VM's in the process. The end user was none the wiser that the machine's HD just got gigs bigger. -
"DID THE IMPOSSIBLE"
Version: EaseUS Partition Master Home Edition 9.1
Pros
I HAD ALMOST LOST ALL HOPES ON MY EXTERNAL CD DRIVE. DURING A WINDOWS INSTALLATION, THERE WAS A MISTAKE, AND WINDOWS WAS HALF-WAY INSTALLED IN THE EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE. IT TOOK ME 6+ MONTHS TO FIND A PROGRAM TO RECOVER THINGS.
IN LESS THAN 15 MINUTES, MY HARD DRIVE IS BACK, ALL FILES ARE THERE, AND I CAN OPEN IT WITH WINDOWS EXPLORER, BROWSE, COPY, DELETE, ETC.
THANKS!Cons
NONE SO FAR.
Summary
THE BEST OF 5 PROGRAMS I TRIED.
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"Really simple and effective Disk partitioning tool"
Version: EaseUS Partition Master Home Edition 9.1
Pros
Ease of use,simple yet intuitive user interface.
Cons
I had no problems using this to reduce my system partition safely.The software did the job without any of my data or programs being lost.So based on my experience it has no cons really.
Summary
This program is really good and does exactly what is needed.It features a simple UI and provides a lot of tools to manage your Hard Disk without much hassle.Best thing about it is that its absolutely free
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"Thanks God! Thanks EaseUS!"
Version: EaseUS Partition Master Home Edition 9.1
Pros
Perfect user interface
Cons
As a regular/basic PC user, no qualification to make any criticism.
Summary
EaseUS makes you experiencing revival.
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"Works (and no data loss!)"
Version: EaseUS Partition Master Home Edition 9.1
Pros
Intuitive interface.
Cons
None that I experienced.
Summary
I needed to repartition my system Windows partition to add 1mb of empty space prior to this partition for a boot loaded. I was naturally a bit nervous as this was my system partition. Installed EaseUS Partition Master Home Edition 9.1 simply removed a few mb of space from the front of the partition and clicked applied changes, it rebooted, applied the changes and then loaded into Windows. Perfect.
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"best........"
Version: EaseUS Partition Master Home Edition 9.1
Pros
best........
Cons
best........
Summary
best........
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