Easeus Partition Master

CNET Editors' review

by: CNET staff on July 20, 2010

Windows has built-in disk management tools, and they do a pretty good job, but many users turn to third-party software for more robust solutions. Easeus Partition Master Professional Edition combines three of the most essential disk management utilities in one easy-to-use package. Its Partition Manager performs all essential disk formatting and maintenance functions, but it does much more, such as extending NTFS disk partitions without rebooting. The Partition Recovery Wizard helps recover damaged partitions and lost, corrupted, or accidentally erased data, and the Disk & Partition Copy Wizard feature makes it easy to copy a partition or an entire disk drive and migrate the data to a new drive.

Easeus Partition Master performed all the basic disk management functions we've seen in Windows and other disk management utilities, including creating, formatting, moving, deleting, and merging partitions; converting file systems; disk defragmentation; and even wiping disks clean. However, several of the program's recovery-oriented features stand out, such as the ability to easily convert dynamic disks to basic disks without losing data, which helps when extending partitions or repurposing older disks. Another feature we like is the ability to create a bootable recovery CD or DVD. It can rebuild a damaged Master Boot Record to make a disk bootable again, something that would have come in handy more than once in our past disasters. And we especially commend its ability to easily and completely copy your entire main drive to another disk, such as an older disk you've replaced; a mirror-image copy is better than any compressed backup file.

Though Easeus Partition Master Professional's busy interface isn't the most attractive or up-to-date design, it's efficient and functional, with clearly labeled icons for most functions and a basic Windows-style layout of toolbars, navigation pane, and main display. Still, as a set of useful utilities, each of which improves on Windows' native capabilities, it's well worth a look.

Editor's note: This is a review of the full version of Easeus Partition Master Professional 6.0.1. The trial version cannot perform the batch operations.

Publisher's Description

From Chengdu Yiwo Tech Development:

EaseUS Partition Master Professional Edition is an all-in-one partition solution with brand-new Windows-7-style interface and built-in WinPE bootable disk, it includes three main features: Partition Manager, Partition Recovery Wizard and Disk & Partition Copy to solve all partition problems under hardware RAID, MBR & GPT disks and removable devices in Windows operating systems.

The partition management function helps to extend system partition to solve low disk problem, resize or move, create, format, delete, and convert partition with all data protected, rebuild MBR, convert dynamic disk. Besides, it allows you to drag and drop on the disk map. Moreover, it doesnt require a reboot when extending NTFS partition to minimize computer downtime. The second feature is useful when you want to copy partition or hard disk. It also provides a dynamic disk copy function for dynamic disk replacement or backup. The third feature helps you recover deleted or lost partition to avoid any personal, hardware or software failure, virus attack, or hacker's intrusive destruction partition loss.

What's new in this version: Version 9.2.2 Trial Edition can be directly activated, no need to re-download and reinstall application.