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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.
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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: Version 5.2 supports to manage removable disk. For example: memory card, memory stick and Flash drive.
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3.9 starsout of 100 votes
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"It repaired my boot sector"
Version: Partition Wizard Home Edition 5.2
Pros
A backup program ruined my boot sector, so that Windows could not start anymore. I tried a lot of rescue CDs, but without success. After hours of despair I found the partition wizard. In less than 5 min Windows showed up again. Easy, friendly, fast!
Cons
I did not encounter any cons.
Summary
This tool is a real wizard, doing magic. It rescued me from reinstalling the OS and this in no time. Great tool.
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"Great product"
Version: Partition Wizard Home Edition 5.2
Pros
Easy to use..
Worked quickly..
and its free...Cons
Free ver. can't Merge Partition...
Summary
Extend system partition to maximize computer performance......
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"Get Error code 2 "Not Enough Memory""
Version: Partition Wizard Home Edition 5.2
Pros
Free, works ok in Xp Pro except for the below Con.
Cons
Get "Not enough memory" error when trying to resize Win 7 backup image partition on WD 60 GB PassPort. The partition is 55 GB and want to make it 30 GB.
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"Easy and works great!"
Version: Partition Wizard Home Edition 5.2
Pros
Very easy to use was able to resize my drives with no troubles!
Cons
none just none
Summary
I'd highly recommend this program to anyone works great!
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"Worked great for me"
Version: Partition Wizard Home Edition 5.2
Pros
Intuitive. Can't beat the price
Cons
You can't use the merge command with the home edition. Doesn't tie my shoelaces, either.
Hello?? IT"S FREE!Summary
Using a Windows 7 64x OS, I cloned my C: drive to be safe, then deleted a C:\ VM partition I had forgotten about, giving myself a considerable amount of extra space. That was my original intent. However, looking at the easily understandable display, I was able to locate and delete an area of unallocated space on another drive and created a NTFS partition to further increase my total HDD capacity.
Partition Wizard worked flawlessly for me. I really don't know how or what the one- and two-star reviewers ran into, but this was a champ. It will be a great utility for my future HDD maintenance. -
"it does what it says it can do. Impressive."
Version: Partition Wizard Home Edition 5.2
Pros
easily enlarged partition size after i made my first partition of a portable HD too small.
Cons
explanation of concepts a bit hazy on first read, but helpful wizard.
Summary
great software for nil cost!`
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"Wouldn't have an OS without it."
Version: Partition Wizard Home Edition 5.2
Pros
All of its features.
Cons
C drive can not be rezised without a reboot (but its ok).
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"If you liked Partition Magic, you'll love PW 5.2"
Version: Partition Wizard Home Edition 5.2
Pros
Very good interface, easy to understand and no fluff.
Cons
Takes forever to to wipe a hard-drive. Tech support for free edition is deathly slow to non-existent. IMHO a minor issue but still worth mentioning.
Summary
If you like to tweak your partitions or if you've ever wanted to try multi-booting (running more than one Operating System on the same computer) and you just don't like the partition editor that comes with windows, Partition Wizard is your best bet. It looks and feels like Partition Magic did and can see all of the latest partition types (including Linux Reiser, Ext2, Ext3 & Ext4) and can resize move and or delete them. It doesn't seem to care if your partitions are compressed in Windows and yes you can have different types of partitions on the same hard-drive. Best of all it's a graphical program not a scripting only program (there are some freebies out there that do all of this but you have to learn a scripting language to use them, NO THANKS!) and though you do need to be careful the program is very easy to understand. Practice on a hard not critical to running your computer first (an external USB or and old internal model, not your Main or C:\ drive.)
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"Did what windows default program wouldn't"
Version: Partition Wizard Home Edition 5.2
Pros
fixed my flash drive
Cons
none at all
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"A Wonderful Partitioning Tool"
Version: Partition Wizard Home Edition 5.2
Pros
Nice GUI, several different partitioning/file system options, does the job quickly and easily.
Cons
Some options are only for the paid version, but for the price (FREE) you can't really go wrong.
Summary
Partitioning is a great way to section off your hard drive, so that certain things can have their own place (OS and program files on C drive, music on F drive, pictures on G drive, etc). This tool can make that happen with minimal effort. Did a great job partitioning and changing the file system of a hard drive to Ext3, for the sake of housing Ubuntu.
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