Use An Advanced Partition Tool And Achieve Full Hard Disk Control

A partition utility is a software tool which lets you manipulate partitions on your hard disk. This can be very useful and is necessary if you want to install different operating systems on your computer.

With a standard partition tool you should be able to create, copy, delete or resize partitions, not just recreate the hard disk as you do with the DOS fdisk utility before formatting the partition. Another great feature that comes along with any partition tools is that you can free up some disk space.

Whenever you perform such sensitive operation as partitioning your hard disk there is always an associate risk that your data can get lost or damaged either totally or partially. For this reason it is important that you first take data backup of all your data. It is also important that you study the related manual before you do any type of operation on the hard drive so you understand its commands and how to perform its operations.



A very powerful disk partition and disk manipulation tools is included in Acronis Disk Director Suite which is a product from Acronis.

This suite includes Acronis Partition Manager. With the Partition Manager you can create, resize, move, copy, split, remove or merge hard drive partitions.
One reason for having several partitions is to organize your data. You can have different partitions for multimedia files, for your operating system and for your data files.
Another reason to use different partition is if you need to run different operating systems, if you develop software and want to run the software on different systems for testing. Another might be for example if you want to run old software’s on Windows 3.1 or Windows 98. One reason for doing this is so you can be able to still run old computer games.

With this tool for partitioning you will be able to arrange the data stored on your computer the way you want, storing videos or music on different partition. Partitioning your hard disk will result in improvement of the entire system’s performance and it will make it more reliable when it comes to launching programs.

The product supports most PC files systems such as FAT16, FAT32, Linux Ext2, Ext3, NTFS, ReiserFS, and Linux SWAP.

You are also able to convert between Linux Ext2 <=> Ext3, between FAT16 <=> FAT32 and change the cluster size.

The suite also includes:
Acronis Boot Manager. This is a boot software utility which makes it possible to install several operation systems on the computer. With it you have control over which OS and partition that is active.

The boot manager support almost everything from Microsoft’s DOS, Windows 95, Windows 98 Windows Me, Windows NT 3.1 … 4.0, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Widows 2003 Server to Linux, FreeBSD, SCO UNIX, UNIXWARE, OS/2, Solaris, QNX, B-TRON and BeOS.

Acronis Partition Recovery is a tool by which you can fix and recover accidentally deleted or lost partitions.

Acronis Disk Editor. This is a disk repair tool which allows you to run advanced operations on your hard drive. This can be operations such as hexadecimal editing or restoration of boot records.

It is recommended to use the partition manager in order to separate the most frequent used files from others and to increase speed of the defragmentation processes, which basically rearranges the files you use back to where they belong minimizing disk head movements.

For all the above reasons use a partition management tool in order to carry out a hard disk partition operation is not only logical, but also necessary. The fact is that by dividing the hard drive into several logical partition of smaller size you achieve a better management of the data on your computer.

By using another product from Acronis, the Acronis True Image which is a disk image backup and data recovery product together with the Acronis Disk Directory Suite you get a full and complete disk image and disk manipulation tool of products for every type of needs.