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CNET Editors' review
MiniTool's Partition Wizard Home Edition is a free disk utility that adds powerful partition management capabilities to both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows installations. It can create, delete, resize, format, copy, convert, and hide partitions; change drive letters; convert dynamic disks back to basic disks; and perform critical tests and maintenance duties. It supports most disk types, including removable storage devices like flash drives and memory cards.
Partition Wizard's interface resembles recent Windows editions, with a familiar blue-toned navigation pane and color-delineated bar graphs for each disk partition. It opened with a detailed display of our system's disks and partition information, including a flash drive in a USB port. We opted to test Partition Wizard on the flash drive since there's no lack of tools for managing hard-drive partitions, but they don't always handle removable drives so well. We ran our little flash drive through its paces, gaining quick familiarity with this powerful but easy-to-use software. We like the Operations Pending window, which collects all selected procedures, awaiting your Apply or Undo command. Another nice touch is a Wizard file menu for quickly accessing the program's wizard-based copy and recovery tools. We clicked Format Partition to reformat our flash drive's FAT partition as NTFS, and then clicked Apply to initiate the change, which called up a caution message about open applications. Clicking Surface Test called up a dialog with the familiar animated block map display, whereas the Wipe Partition control offers several levels of disk-wiping. Simple commands like labeling partitions or changing drive letters are handled by small pop-ups, and more-powerful tools, like Copy Partition, offer much greater levels of detail and control. You can also download a free bootable, burnable CD ISO image that lets you boot into Partition Wizard to manage partitions without limitations, including functions like merging partitions and rebuilding Master Boot Records.
Partition Wizard Home Edition is a great example of the sort of freeware that can both simplify and enhance Windows' capabilities. It's an all-in-one disk partition manager that earns our top recommendation.
Publisher's Description
From MiniTool:
Working as partition magic, Partition Wizard Home Edition is a free partition manager designed by MT Solution Ltd. This partition software supports 32/64 bit Windows Operating System. Home users can perform complicated partition operations by using this powerful but free partition manager to manage their hard disk partition such as Resizing partitions, Copying partitions, Create partition, Delete partition, Format partition, Convert partition, Explore partition, Hide partition, Change drive letter, Set active partition, Convert Dynamic Disk to Basic Disk, Surface Test, Change Partition Serial Number, Change Partition Type ID and Partition Recovery.
What's new in this version: Less free space required in change cluster size. Efficiency and reliability enhanced in move/resize partition. Bug fixes.
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"powerful partition management tools, helped me a lot"
Version: MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition 7.1
Pros
convenient, handy, powerful and functional
Cons
nothing has been found so far
Summary
very nice tool to manage partitions. helped me recovery my partition. thank you very much and what is more, it is free.
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"professional way to format partition"
Version: MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition 7.1
Pros
Does practically everything
Cons
Nothing major.
Summary
Before you download MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition make sure you get your free Pc backup at ****************.com just in case u get some viruses!! Better to be safe then sorry!!
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"works perfectly."
Version: MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition 7.1
Pros
free., and works perfectly.
Cons
no, i didn't find any.just works perfectly.
Summary
i have got a partitioned drive and my C: is almost full, i wanted to move some programs to the D: , someone tells me that extending c partition is much easier than moving programs to the D partition. he is right, with this software, just in a few steps, extending my c partition perfectly. Thanks so much,
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"Does what I want without throwing a fit."
Version: MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition 7.1
Pros
- Always does what I want it to.
- Doesn't choke on multi-tasks.
- Can move partitions WAY better than Windows.Cons
- No cons for this program.
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"nice partition management tool"
Version: MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition 7.1
Pros
functional, handy and powerful.
Cons
no cons have been found so far
Summary
i found it from cnet and tried the free version. it worked really well and solved my partition problems easily.
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"partition management on top recommendation list"
Version: MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition 7.1
Pros
powerful and functional and convenient.
Cons
home edition is free for only under 1GB data.
Summary
i did a wrong deletion of a partition and when i do not know how to get my partition back, one of my friend recommended this software to me. And finally i got the deleted partition easily. highly recommend!!!!!!!!!
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"partition my Hard Drive"
Version: MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition 7.1
Pros
easy to operate. and free.
Cons
not found.
Summary
My Hard drive has 232GB unallocated. i want to partition it. but don't know how to do. this software just solve my big problems. :)>
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"Manage my partitions conveniently"
Version: MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition 7.1
Pros
handy and functional.
Cons
none has been found now.
Summary
My operating system is windows 7 and it does have built-in disk management tool but is it not functional and convenient enough. I download Minitool partition wizard home version and it manages my partitions well. I can resize and create partitions easily. highly recommend.
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"The professional way to format partition"
Version: MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition 7.1
Pros
professional and free.
Cons
no, absolutely.
Summary
My computer hard drive is divided into C and D and i want to format D (NOT delete it). I know i can simply go to "Computer" and then right click on the D and go to format. But i guess that is not the correct and professional way of formatting it. Minitool partition wizard, it is the professional way. :)
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"Very good program"
Version: MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition 7.1
Pros
Easy to use.
Cons
No cons yet.
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