2025-04-20

2 Popular Partition Manager Freewares

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1. Partition Wizard Home Edition
Partition Wizard Home EditionMove, resize, copy, explore, and recover hard disk drive partitions.

Latest Version: 5.0
Operating system: Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7
Web site: http://www.eofsoft.com

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 5.0 version?
Version 5.0 features: extend NTFS partition without reboot, Support Linux Ext2, Ext3 system, new GUI.

2. Easeus Partition Master Home Edition
Easeus Partition Master Home Edition Configure and manage partitions of hard drive.

Latest Version: 5.8.1
Operating system: Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7
Web site: http://www.easeus.com

Free Partition Manager–EASEUS Partition Master Home Edition is a partition magic alternative and partition management freeware. With its help, you can resize/move, copy, create, delete, format, hide, explore hard disk drive partitions. To extend system partition, have better disk space management, settle low disk space problem! The most attractive feature is it can resize/move partition without destroying data. This free partition manager is an ALL-IN-ONE partition solution and disk management utility. It allows you to extend partition (especially for system drive), manage disk space easily, settle low disk space problem under Windows 2000/XP/Vista/Windows 7 (Only for 32 bit). The most popular hard disk management functions are brought together with powerful data protection including: Partition Manager, Partition Recovery Wizard and Disk & Partition Copy Wizard. The Home Edition can recover files with sizes of up to 1 GB.

What’s new in 5.8.1 version?
Version 5.8.1 adds Convert dynamic disk to basic disk with all data protected.

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IBM minicomputer system 9*300G optical fiber interface hard disk disconnection and array loss

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Case:The hard disk is dropped, and the heat disk is not launched, causing the array to lose. Solution:After the engineer’s test, the hard disk did not have a hardware failure. It could directly logically recover. The virtual combination was used to recover the RAID recovery software, and then the engineer analyzed the data positioning and…

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RAID Data Recovery

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Raid Data Recovery1. Why RAID data recovery?
As we know, RAID recovery is one of the most complicated and challenging recovery procedures, and therefore, the cost is always very expensive. RAID systems are susceptible to the same ailments that plague single hard drive like logical problems, human error, viruses and physical damage. Otherwise, they may suffer from RAID array failure, controller failure, server registry configurations lost, accidental reconfigurations of RAID drives, multiple drive failure, and so on.

Well, any RAID system may be fault-tolerant, but they are not fault proof. More often than not, most commercial RAID implementations can tolerate the loss of a single hard drive by providing increased data security. In case bad things happen to the RAID controller or configuration (lost, damaged and rebuild by mistake…), your data may be compromised, thus data recovery is necessary.

2. How RAID data recovery works?
The utility will extract the data from multiple HD in a RAID system, and work to rebuild the correct data according to a variety of RAID data array, independent from hardware array card or server system. The essence of the RAID recovery procedures is to crack the algorithm of a variety of RAID cards, or simulate the RAID card to read data scattering among multiple segment hard drives and recompose it in a correct form to a new storage medium by analyzing the data structures of the multiple segment hard drives in the RAID system directly.

Many RAID data recovery companies out there claims to recover lost or deleted data when RAID servers are down using their tools. Several excellent RAID recovery software utilities currently available in the market like WINHEX, Run Time, and R-Studio for example, are prominent at some points.

The merits of these software utilities are well talked most of the time amongst professionals and common users worldwide. Here the list of reviews collected based on in-depth analysis.

WINHEX
With manual analysis available; complicated operations are always in need of experience and expertise.

Run Time
With automatic analysis available; users can not have DirectView of the rebuilt data; inconvenient operation.

R-Studio
With manual analysis available; complicated operations are always in need of experience and expertise.

Getway Raid Recovery Tool
Get your data back from various types of arrays, including RAID 0, RAID 5, RAID 5EE and RAID 6.

3. Raid Data Recovery Case Studies:

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Hard Disk Drive Resource Links (Linux System)

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http://www.nyx.net/~sgjoen/disk.html
This document describes how best to use multiple discs and partitions for a Linux system. Although some of this text is Linux specific, the general approach outlined here can be applied to many other multi tasking operating systems.

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Hard-Disk-Upgrade/index.html
This document describes how to copy a Linux system from one hard disc to another.

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Partition-Rescue/index.html
This document describes how to rescue your Linux partition if MS-DOS deleted it.

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Partition/index.html
This document explains how to plan and layout disc space for a Linux system. It talks about disk hardware, partitions, swap space sizing and positioning considerations, file systems, file system types, and related topics. The intent is to teach some background knowledge, not procedures.

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Large-Disk-HOWTO.html
This document covers how to configure disc drives with more than 1024 cylinders for use with Linux.

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Root-RAID-HOWTO.html
This document provides a cookbook for creating a root mounted RAID file system and companion fallback rescue system using Linux initrd. There are complete step-by-step instruction for both raid1 and raid5 md0 devices. Each step is accompanied by an explanation of its purpose. Included with this revision is a generic Linux initrd file which may be configured with a single three line /etc/raidboot.conf file for raid1 and raid5 configurations.

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Hard Disk Details(9)

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Slide 4500:  Doing a Platter Swap for a Single Platter

List of items needed:
The first step is to get a hard drive as close to identical as the bad drive you have that is a working drive. At the bottom of this paper you will find help about matching hard drives and serial numbers.
You need a clean area to work on with as little dust floating around as possible.
You will need about 1 hour to do this carefully
A screwdriver set with T3-T8.  These are my favorite http://www.wihatools.com/200seri/278serie.htm
Post-it Notes
Other tools depending on the drive
Anti-Static Gloves ($5 at the local store)
Patience

Just move the head as careful as you can to get it out of the way

NOTE:
This is a fairly simple task compared to a head swap. The hardest part is again getting the heads aligned and back on the platter correctly.
If you have a ramp on your drive it is fairly simple to get the head moved out of the way enough to get the platter in position.

Remove the platter from the good drive.

NOTE:
I usually will try to put a screwdriver in the shaft just to the edge of the center of the platter and turn the drive just enough to get the platter to slide on to the screw driver. I will do the same for the bad drive to move the platter to the good drive.

The platter will most likely never be used again so just get it out however you can without affecting the rest of the drive.

Again I use the Post-it notes in the shape of a V to get the heads back on the platter as I did in the head replacement.

Be very careful to keep the orientation in the same direction to so that the platter will be in the correct location when you put the platter back on the new drive.

Slide TBD: Doing a Platter Swap for a Multi-Platter

In order to do a Multi-Platter replacement you will need a special tool. If you have more than one platter and you take out the platters and any one of them turns at all, you will never get them aligned again or be able to read the data. This is because the data is written in a cylinder. Since the data is in a cylinder you must have the exact same alignment of the platters in order to move them to a new hard drive.

There is a special tool called a Platter Replacement Stand. You can get one at SalvationData.com  http://www.salvationdata.com for around $250 plus postage. It is a really heavy stand and weighs about 10 pounds.  The platter replacement tool is what you really need and it looks a lot like a coffee can with a slit in the side.  Once you have moved your heads out of the way, this can sits down around all the platters and you can push down on a piece of metal mounted in the slit to tighten it around the platters.  It also has a lid inside that sits on the top ring of the platters that will hold the screws and keep them from rolling around all over the platters.

The pressure from the “coffee can” will hold all the platters together; however you still have to be really careful about taking it out and turning it. It should go straight from one hard drive to the other as quickly as possible with as little movement as possible.

This is the best possible way to keep the drive platters lined up.

You will still reassemble the drive just like you do in a head stack replacement or a single platter replacement. The only difference is using this device to move the platters.

The plate inside the tool holds the screws so that they do not scratch the platter.

Realign the heads.

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Hard drive data recovery

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Case:Fuyong’s hard disk accidentally fell, and then the computer could not be recognized. Solution:The faulty device is Samsung 500GB notebook hard disk. First, the data recovery device UDMA detects the fault hard disk. It is found that the indicator light is often bright, there is a knocking sound in the disk, the magnetic head does…

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MAC Data Recovery Issues

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MAC Laptop’s present a special set of problems. One is how to get the hard disk drive out of the computer to perform a File Recovery Service or Computer Data Recovery Service.

A perfect example of these challenges can be found in Apple’s PowerBook G4 series of notebook computer. Attempted removal of the hard disk drive should only be done by an experienced professional. It is quite easy to damage the computer by taking it apart. The area above the DVD player where you right palm sits is very sensitive to damage. Also the hinges on the MAC Titanium are known to break easily.

MAC Data Recovery is different than NTFS or Windows Data Recovery and requires a completely different set of technical skills and for that matter Data Recovery Tools. It is not advised you even use the Data Recovery Company that the Apple store will recommend because they are way too expensive for most end users.

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