Partition & manage your hard drive
Platform : Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP
Type: time limited demo
Manufacturer: Paragon Software
Size: 21MB
Rating: 5
Verdict:
Excellent partitioning software that enables you to amend, resize, delete and
merge partitions
System Requirements:
A modern PC will be supplied with a large hard drive, generally over 250GB in
size and with Windows and other applications pre-installed. The hard drive is
generally pre-configured either as one large partition or, more annoyingly, made
up of a number of smaller partitions. There is no easy way of changing the size
of these partitions from within Windows, using the supplied tools.
Paragon’s Partition Manager 8 is hard drive partitioning software that will
enable you to change the size of your internal hard drive or any drive connected
to the computer.
Partitioning a hard drive enables files to be managed more effectively. For
instance, a core partition could be used to host Windows and system files,
whilst another partition could handle work and data files. It’s not a wise idea
to use a partition to back up important data as it is all stored on the same
hard drive. However, by partitioning your hard drive, backup tools such as
Paragon Drive Backup 8 can be utilised to backup a partition, rather than the
entire hard drive.
If you’ve often thought about installing another operating system on your
computer, such as Ubuntu or another Linux distribution, a separate partition
could be created to handle the Ubuntu installation so it is kept apart from your
Windows system files.
Paragon Partition Manager isn’t just limited to partitioning your drive.
There are tools for you to defragment and free up vital space on your drives.
Partitions can be copied and merged and if you really want to get serious,
Partition Manager can be used to format and wipe a drive partition.