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) and Windows 8 32 bit and 64 bit system. Easeus Partition Master Home Edition is an all-in-one partition solution and disk management freeware. 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:
Version 9.1.1 supports Windows 8.
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"Broke my Windows XP installation"
Version: EaseUS Partition Master Home Edition 9.1.1
Pros
None. It destroyed my computer withOUT even editing the partitions!
Cons
Killed my XP installation. This program does not work. It sucks.
Summary
I installed it, started it and wanted to resize one of my disk partitions. It said it needed to reboot to make the changes. My XP machind never rebooted. It got stuck at the "Loading your personal settings" screen and never worked again. MAJOR FAIL. Idiots.
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"Great tool and a must have"
Version: EaseUS Partition Master Home Edition 9.1.1
Pros
Ease of use and familiar straight forward user interface
Cons
Hard disk defrag needs some work, it should provide visual progress made or at least provide any indication of time needed.
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I downloaded this free version to prepare for migrating my hard disk to an SSD drive, this is the best software I tried so far and works goods. I had also an external WD backup drive that needed formatting and no other tool was able to do it, only this software did the job.
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