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MiniTool Partition Wizard

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Platform
  
IA-32, x64

Developer(s)
  
MiniTool® Solution Ltd.

Initial release
  
24 July 2009; 7 years ago (2009-07-24)

Stable release
  
9.1 / 11 August 2015; 18 months ago (2015-08-11)

Operating system
  
Windows XP and later Windows Server 2003 and later

Available in
  
English, German, Japanese, Chinese

MiniTool Partition Wizard is a computer software for hard disk drive partition management originally made by MiniTool® Solution Ltd., the typical function is resizing the existing partitions. There are five different editions of this software: Home edition (Free for home users), Professinoal edition (with additional features such as convert primary/logical partitions, convert fat32 to NTFS, Change cluster size, allocate free space from one partition to another etc.), Server edition (for server Administrator) , Unlimited edition (aimed at companies with many computers) and Technician Edition (aimed at IT consulting company that provide technical services). The software embeds data protecting solutions such as power-off protection technology. The Home and Pro editions only support Windows PC operating systems including Windows 2000 and Windows XP, Windows Vista, 7, 8, 8.1 or 10, both 32&64 bits. The other four editions also support Windows Server operating system including Windows Server 2003, 2008 (R2), 2012 (R2) and SBS 2011.

Contents

Advantages

This program consists of a list of useful functions on disk partition management.

  1. Basic Partition Management: Create, delete, format, label partitions
  2. Advanced Partition Management: it is able to shrink, extend, merge and split existing partitions, change cluster size, align partition, wipe partition
  3. Basic Disk Management : Disk Clone and Migration help users to quick upgrade hard disk.
  4. Partition and Manage SD Card for Android device
  5. Conversion: convert between FAT and NTFS, Basic and dynamic disk, MBR and GPT disk, Logical and Primary partition.
  6. Recovery and repair: repair damaged MBR, recover lost partitions.
  7. Queues commands download

Disadvantages

  • No TRIM support.
  • Some features are limited in free edition.
  • Cannot lock volume in some conditions.
  • Stuck at updating system information in some conditions.
  • Costs too much time when partitioning a large disk drive.
  • Major upgrades tend to be far less frequent in recent years
  • References

    MiniTool Partition Wizard Wikipedia