Partition Magic - Partition Manager Software
Extend partition with one step
Resize/Move partition without data loss.
Create, delete and format partion with simple steps. Copy partition and disk to transfer data with ease. Support disk and partition size larger than 2 TB. Keep your data safe even in case of power outages or hardware failure.
Resize/Move partition without data loss.
Create, delete and format partion with simple steps. Copy partition and disk to transfer data with ease. Support disk and partition size larger than 2 TB. Keep your data safe even in case of power outages or hardware failure.
Files and partitions
- As you well know, the data is stored in files on a hard disk. Files are grouped together in folders and subfolders. Folders are, in their turn, organized in the folder tree. The root folder plays a special role in the Windows operating system, for example, C:\ (the root folder of a hard disk named C:). A user adverts to files and folders by their names. By means of operating system, user can create files (and folders), move/copy files from one folder to another, rename and delete files. Besides, files can be executed and opened by an application that has created them.
The operating system provides user with an opportunity of working with data organized in files, supporting one or another file system. The majority of operating systems supports several file systems. For example, Windows 98/Me supports FAT16 and FAT32 file systems, Windows NT/2k/XP supports FAT16/32 and also NTFS file system.
File systems differ by ways of data organization on a disk. File systems of different OS families are, generally speaking, incompatible with each other. - Files on a disk consist of elementary data storage units called clusters that are combined into chains.
- It would be extremely inconvenient, if a hard disk could be used by a single operating system only. Therefore the mechanism, allowing several OS to use one hard disk, was created. This mechanism is the partitioning of hard disk space.
Beginning the Work
Automatic partition operations
- Create partition method
- Hard disk drive selection
- Select unallocated space
- Partition selection
- Partition size
- Partition type
- File system
- Logical drive letter
- Partition label
- Hard disk drive structure
Manual partition operations
- Creating partition
- Copying a partition to unallocated disk space
- Moving a partition to unallocated disk space
- Resizing and/or moving a partition
- Splitting partitions
- Changing partition labels
- Merging partitions
- Explore partitions
- Formatting a partition
- Delete partition
- Checking hard disk partitions for errors
- Defragmenting a partition
- Wiping unallocated hard disk space
- Clearing a hard disk
- Changing partition letter
- Converting partition file system
- Copying Master Boot Record
- Hiding a partition
- Unhiding a partition
- Changing cluster size
- Changing partition type
- Setting active partition
- Resizing a root
- Resizing i-node table in Linux Ext2/Ext3
Working with Acronis DiskEditor
- Files and partitions
- Connecting a hard disk to the computer
- Setting BIOS
- User interface
- Technical support
- Selecting partitions (disks) for working
- Master Boot Record (MBR)
- Creating primary partition
- Formatting a partition
- Creating a logical partition
- File Allocation Table (FAT) and Root folder (Root)
- A file as a chain of clusters
- A folder in DiskEditor main window
- Files with short names
- Files with long names
- Folders and subfolders