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- ASIN: B002UXQAOA
- Release Date: 28 Nov 2009
By : Avanquest Software
Price : £25.99
Product Description
Manufacturer's Description
The Easiest, Most Powerful Partitioning Product Available! Safely Organise and Protect your Hard Drive - Includes all the tools to reclaim wasted hard disk space, organise important files and speed up your hard drive.Partition Commander lets you reclaim wasted hard disk space, organise your files and, in many cases, speed up hard drive access. Best of all, you don't have to be an expert to use it! Partition Commander automates the process - guiding you through step-by-step. Where you have a choice, helpful suggestions are made available - the rest is handled automatically.
Better OrganisationIf you're like most people, you have a single partition - your C:\ drive - this partition holds the operating system, program applications and all of your important data. This can lead to very cluttered hard drives and make backups a nightmare. With today's 1+TB hard drives, Partition Commander organises your hard drive so that you can find files faster and easier. Redistribute Disk Space Easily increase free space in a partition by moving unused space from another partition on the same drive. Windows alone can't do this, and without Partition Commander, this procedure requires a complex sequence of resizing and moving partitions and data. The built-in wizard performs all the necessary actions in a few easy steps.The safest way to partition your hard driveNo other utility lets you partition your hard drive with more ease and confidence. It even has built-in safety features to protect you against system failures, including power loss while partitioning.
FEATURES
- Divide a single hard drive into two or more partitions
- Works with any Windows 95/98/Me/2000 Pro/XP/Vista/7, Linux and DOS partition
- Copy, move, split and merge any partition without losing data
- Step-by-step wizard guides you through the partitioning process
- Powerful safety features protect you against system failures while partitioning
- Fix computer startup problems
- Runs directly in Windows
- Preview partitioning tasks before completing them, and Undo any partitioning step. Recover any deleted partitions
- Defragment any partition for optimal performance
NEW FEATURES
- New Intuitive User Interface
- New "Quick View" provides quick access to Partition Commander's key tools
- New Full System Backup tool to enable users to revert any partitioning action with a full system restore
- New OS Installation Wizard - helps users prepare their computer for a new OS installation
- New Boot Manager Wizard - allows users to easily select which OS to boot
- New Recovery Media Builder - allows users to create bootable recovery media on CD/DVD or USB
- New - Fully Windows 7, 32 and 64-bit compatible- perfect for evaluating Windows 7 in a separate partition
- New - Manage drives larger than 2Tb
- New - Mac OS X Bootcamp Support - resize partitions between the Mac OS X and Windows partitions
BENEFITS
- Organise ; Optimise Your Hard Drive - Hard drives start with one single partition which holds the operating system, your applications, games and all of your important data, music, photos and videos. Over time your hard drive becomes cluttered. Using Partition Commander, you can significantly improve your hard drive speed and organisation by separating your operating system, applications and important data, enabling your hard drive to find files faster.
- Redistribute Unused Disk Space - Do you need additional space in one of your existing partitions? No problem! Partition Commander lets you move unused disk space from one partition to another. Windows can't do this alone. Partition Commander's built-in utility does all the work for you in a few simple steps.
- Built in Safety Features for Maximum Protection - No other partitioning software includes built-in safety features to protect you against system failures, including power loss. Partition your hard drive with ease and confidence knowing that Partition Commander's safety and undo features will always be there if you need them.
- Allowing data to be organised more effectively making it faster and easier to find your data and files, increasing your productivity.
- By better organising your data, it also helps your computer run faster.
- Easily increasing free space in a partition by moving unused space from another partition on the same drive, Partition Commander's built-in wizard performs all the necessary actions in a few easy steps.
- Allowing you to easily test a new operating system (such as Windows 7) without interfering with your current operating system.
- Keeping data on a separate partition to the Operating System means that should the operating system fail or have a problem, it can be formatted and reinstalled without affecting the data partition.
- Partitioning can also be useful if the hard disk is larger than the partition size supported by the user's operating system.
- Separating out your data and applications means that if an application is installed or accidentally deleted, the data elsewhere won't be erased, you only need to recover one partition, which is much faster than trying to recover the entire hard disk.
- Simpler backups - by partitioning data separately you can choose to backup (and restore) just specific partitions, providing faster backups and restorations.
Partition Commander 11 (PC CD)
Product Features
- Organise ; Optimise your Hard Drive – separate your operating system, applications and data to find files faster and more easily
- Redistribute Unused Disk Space - Windows alone can’t do this – Partition Commander does it all for you in a few steps
- Built-in Safety Features - to protect you against system failures, including power loss, the safest way to partition your hard drive
- Copy entire drives - for easy transfer ; backup
- Secure and protect your data and improve system performance!
- Bootfixer technology corrects 2000/XP/ Vista/Windows 7 startup problems
- New Features for Version 11! “Full System Backup” tool, OS Installation Wizard, Boot Manager Wizard ; Recovery Media Builder
- Fully Windows 7, 32 and 64-bit compatible! Plus-Manage drives larger than 2TB
Customer Reviews
I've partitioned drives in the past using Windows and also using a free bit of software available to download. It isn't for those who only have a basic understanding of how to use a computer. If you get partitioning a drive wrong it could spell serious disaster in terms of losing all your data, screwing up the operating system and in short putting yourself into a mess that is rather hard or expensive to get out of.
Fortunately, other than one hiccup the partitions in the past have gone reasonably okay. So when I saw this bit of software, I thought I would see how user-friendly it really is.
The fact that at the very start of the installation process it asks you whether you want to install the 32-bit or 64-bit version of the software, will probably put your average punter into a minor panic. Of course, it is easy enough to find out which system you have - simply got into Start, find 'My Computer', right click and then select 'properties' and if under the General tab it does NOT say 64x then it is a 32-bit computer.
So once you have figured that out, you proceed with the installation. It takes a good 5 minutes or so to install at the end of which it asks you to restart. This is not unusual. However, what it doesn't tell you is that when it restarts, it will jump straight to the CD rather than going into Windows.
Again, this will throw your average joe into a mild panic because what they are seeing in front of them is NOT what they are used to seeing when the PC starts up. Instead, there is a tiny Partition Commander window with various options like 'Resize Partition' 'Backup' and so on. There is a mini description of what each function can do but nothing particularly clear and no warnings of what it might do.
There is an option to eject the disk and then another option to restart the PC. Doing that will ensure that the PC loads up normally.
Once it has done so you can still click on the newly installed Partition Commander logo (that should be on your desktop) and run the program from within Windows. Of course it is better to run it before windows loads but again only suggested as an option for those who are confident with what they are doing.
Opening the software provides an array of options like:
1. Partitioning - under which you can 'Quick Create', 'Quick Resize', Delete Partition and Merge Partitions.
2. Cloning and Migration - does what it says!
3. Mac related operations - not entirely sure what that does as I don't have a Mac to play around with!
4. Back-up and Rescue
5. Multi-system Management - where you can set up how your PC boots and also use this to install a new OS (Linux for eg) onto your PC.
6. Launch Advanced View - click on it and it says 'Don't forget to create a recovery CD'. No doubt, this is good advice but again will put fear into those who just want things to be done! It then also tells you to back up your system. So you know you are entering into territory that can be rather disastrous. The Advance View is a lot more complicated but advanced users (duh) will probably appreciate it.
Needless to say if the terms NTFS, FAT32 and FAT16 mean absolutely nothing to you then I would advise you to get someone who does know to partition your drives rather than trying to do it on your own even with this bit of software.
Having said all that, I would highly recommend partitioning NEW drives particularly i.e. if you have just bought a new computer and it has come with a 1 Terabyte hard drive that is not partitioned. The benefits of partitioning? Well, your computer will work faster, you can keep all your programs in one partition, and all your documents safely in another partition (only drives with programs in are likely to crash).
This is a useful bit of software, makes it easier to do and make changes, but I would still really recommend you have a certain level of knowledge and confidence before you go buying and installing it and trying to make some serious changes to your PC.
Hope that helps.
Very easy to use and very powerful, I managed to resurrect a hard drive that Partition Magic version 8 had given up on. Integrates well with Windows 7 64-bit version.
Partition Commander 11 (PC CD)
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