Drive cloning is backing up the files to another disk, or backing up part of files to another location of the same disk. It is an effective way to protect data security but only with complex operations. If there is not enough space in disk, you have to delete some partitions to get some unallocated space. Cloning between disks is more difficult. You need at least two pieces of disks in the computer and then use a drive cloning software to copy all data from one disk to another. Installing two disks in one computer is also a troublesome thing. Common users cannot do that. 

In brief, drive cloning is not suitable for common users. Then how could we protect data security with simple and efficient method? Actually, we don't have to back up data in advance to protect data security, but to use a professional data recovery software. Professional data recovery software is able to recover lost data from disk with simple operations. It does not have complex requirements like deleting partition or installing two disks. With a professional data recovery software, you will feel reassured about data loss because you canrecover lost data easily. 

The principle of using drive cloning software is to back up data in advance and when data loss or data damage occur, we can use the backups to restore lost data. Data recovery software recovers lost data immediately after data loss. Speaking of recovery efficiency, both of them are good at protecting data security. Speaking of operation, obviously data recovery software has much simpler operation than drive cloning software. Therefore, to protect data security easily and efficiently, it is better to choose data recovery software. 

Through this introduction, you must be curious about data recovery software. Here I recommend a data recovery software named MiniTool Power Data Recovery. MiniTool Power Data Recovery has features like simple operation, powerful functions, high stability, and really great compatibility. It supports every kind of popular operating systems. 

This is the main interface of MiniTool Power Data Recovery. We can see there are five functional modules. If it is the first time for you to use MiniTool Power Data Recovery, you may not know about their specific functions. You can try to move the mouse to the buttons and MiniTool Power Data Recovery will show you corresponding information introductions. When data loss occurs, you can choose a suitable module according to specific situation.  

Divide disk free with the powerful partition magic software - MiniTool Partition Wizard. "Divide disk" and "Divide partition" are hot keywords searched by computer users on many search engines, which suggests that many users are faced with these problems and hope to find a proper solution to these problems. Why do users want to divide disk or divide partition? Most likely, users gradually found that the disk partition modes are unreasonable and need adjustment by "Divide disk" and "Divide partition". However, when turning to the operating system built-in disk management tool, they are always disappointed as the disk management tool can not offer such functions. Therefore, searching for third-party partition magic software which could divide disk or divide partition becomes the very solution. Speaking of partition magic software which helps divide disk and divide partition, I would like to recommend MiniTool Partition Wizard, a piece of powerful partition magic software with various disk management functions in addition to divide disk and divide partition. What's more, MiniTool Partition Wizard is totally free for home and personal users.

MiniTool Partition Wizard is developed by MiniTool Solution Ltd. with all-round disk management functions, user-friendly interfaces and small size. Furthermore, MiniTool Partition Wizard is with high compatibility to perfectly run under 32/64 bit MBR and GUID operating systems such as Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 2008, etc. Most importantly, MiniTool Partition Wizard is able to finish all those operations such as divide disk, divide partition, increase partition, extend partition, wipe partition, resize partition, merge partition, create partition, delete partition, format partition, convert partition format, copy partition, hide partition, explore partition, change drive letter, etc.

To divide partition, please first download MiniTool Partition Wizard at MiniTool Partition Wizard Download Center free.
Then install MiniTool Partition Wizard and launch it to meet the following interface: 

Now we are to create an allocated space near G:, then we should select G: and click "Move/Resize" at the toolbar in this main interface.

Entering this window, please drag the left-oriented arrow to the right to spare an allocated space and then click "OK" after successful setting. Now an allocated space could be clearly seen between F: and G:, select this unallocated space and click "Create" to create a new partition.

Specify all information for the new partition and then click "OK".

Last, click "Apply" to realize all pending operation. After that, the "Divide disk" or "Divide Partition" operation would be successfully performed. 

With the advent of information age, more and more users are inclined to use CD to store important data because CD can hold much data although very thin. With CD writer's popularity, naturally, many users use CD which is convenient and exquisite to store some important data with taking up small space. However, data in CD are easily unable to be read caused by CD damage if they fail to protect data appropriately when they use. At this time, data may be lost. So, to avoid data loss, we should know how to protect CD well. Here, I have collected some CD protection measures as follows: 
1. CD will be influenced by weather, temperature, and other factors, so condensed vapor sometimes will appear on its surface. Before using, users should wipe it lightly with clean and soft cotton cloth. 
2. CD should be far away from dust and magnetic field. Users should hold its edge or centre when taking. 
3. If there is some blot on its surface, users can use clean button cloth to dip specialized cleanser to wipe lightly it from centre to edge. Avoid using petrol, alcohol, and other dissolvent with chemical composition which can corrode inner precision of CD.
4. Strictly prohibit touching CD with edge tools when CDs leave unused to avoid scratching CDs. 
5. Users should stack CDs within the number of 10 because CD is thin and relatively not hard. If there are more than 10 CDs, CDs may be deformation which will influence playing quality. If CD is deformation, users can put it in a paper bag, and then out this paper bag between two pieces of glass with 5 kilograms things on it. The CD will recover its flatness after 36 hours. 
6. It is very important to choose storage places with appropriate temperature if users need to store CDs for a long time. Both too high temperature and too low temperature all have an influence on CD's use life. The best temperature to store CDs is about 20 degree centigrade. 

If users have accomplished the above aspects, their data in CD are very safe now. If CD data are lost very unfortunately, for example, CD can not be read in CD-ROM drive, many users are worried about lost data. Actually, they need not worry. Lost data under these situations can be recovered by CD recovery software. Here, I recommend a professional data recovery software by the name of MiniTool Power Data Recovery which has many advantages, such as comprehensive functions, easy and fast to scan, taking up small space, easy to operate, and so on. Next, I will demonstrate how to realize CD data recovery with MiniTool Power Data Recovery.

If users are annoyed by CD data loss, they should observe the following operations carefully. At first, we should visit the official website of MiniTool Power Data Recovery http://www.powerdatarecovery.com/ to download this free CD recovery software, and then install it on our computers. Next, we run it to perform CD data recovery.
After running it, we can see its main interface: 

In the main interface of MiniTool Power Data Recovery, if users want to perform CD data recovery, they should click "CD/DVD Recovery". Next, we enter "CD/DVD Disk Recovery" module.

In this interface, we can perform two operations. The first one is to click "Open" to visit the CD directly to check files in the CD. If there is no desired data, we click "Back" to go back to "CD/DVD Disk Recovery" interface to perform the second operation. In this interface, we click "Full Scan" button to scan CD in CD-ROM drive. After we wait for a period of time, the software skips to the following interface automatically.

In this interface, users can choose the data we need to recover, and then click "Save Files" to save them. Thus, we have finished CD data recovery.

In fact, the above recovery operations show that it is so easy to operate MiniTool Power Data Recovery. Users can realize CD data recovery just by operating mouse. MiniTool Power Data Recovery can not only realize CD data recovery but also other storage medium recovery, such as USB flash disk and memory card. Its powerful data recovery competence has been recognized by a large number of netizens. If users want to get data in lost partitions back, MiniTool Power Data Recovery can help solve this problem easily. If partitions are damaged by virus attack, MiniTool Power Data Recovery also can help get lost data back.  

Has your hard drive on the computer been replaced with SSD? In the process of using SSD, are its properties influenced? That is because partition is not aligned when SSD is partitioned. In this situation, the smallest 4K allocation units in file system are not aligned with the 4KB pages in SSD. Therefore, when file system is reading and writing data in SSD partition, every 4KB data will be operated on two pages in SSD, which greatly influences data read-write efficiency. And hence, SSD properties are influenced. Then how to solve the problem? Users may know the answer: to align SSD partition. And the free partition manager MiniTool Partition Wizard is a good solution for users who don't know how to align SSD partition.

Before aligning SSD partition, we should firstly check whether it has bee aligned. If it is not aligned, we can select suitable way to align partition. But how to check SSD partition state?

Click "Start" menu. Then click "Run" and enter msinfo32. Then a window showing system information will pop up. Then select Components ->Storage-> Disk. All disk information will be shown. Find the SSD to be checked and check whether partition starting offset is integer multiples of 4096. If it is, partitions on the SSD have been aligned. If it is not, partitions are not aligned. At this time, we can use the free partition manager MiniTool Partition Wizardto finish aligning SSD partition.

Since most of the ordinary users are not acquainted with professional computer knowledge, a simple and safe method is preferable when we are going to align SSD partition. And using MiniTool Partition Wizard is such a solution. It can help us align SSD partition with ease. After installing this free partition manager, launch it and we'll see the following main interface.

We can see from the above interface that MiniTool Partition Wizard is a multifunctional partition manager, able to finish almost all common partition management operations, including aligning SSD partition. We just need to select the partition that will be aligned and then click "Align Partition". Then click "Apply" to perform the operations and aligning SSD partition will be finished easily. 

The newly released Windows 7 has made great progress in many aspects compared with previous operating systems, changing the decadency of Windows Vista and gradually replacing once classical Windows XP. Windows 7 has made great improvement in security, resource sharing, operability, and other aspects. From the left picture, we can see the functions "Extend Volume" and "Shrink Volume" have been added to Windows 7 built-in disk management tool so as to make up the defect in resizing partition of previous system built-in disk management tools. These two functions are mainly used to extend or shrink partition in Windows 7 without damaging data. However, although Microsoft is optimizing Windows 7 in many aspects, Windows 7 built-in disk management tool is not so good, because users can only operate the end of the partition, namely shrinking partition forwards and extending partition backwards. As a result, users can not free resize partition in Windows 7 and have to resize partition according to system requirement. Therefore, Windows 7 built-in disk management tool has little significance. Under this situation, we have to ask the third-party partition magic for help to resize partition in Windows 7.

Performing Windows 7 partition management is not merely to resize partition in Windows 7, and users also need to back up partition, back up disk, create partition, delete partition, manage file system, change cluster size, and perform other Windows 7 partition management. Apart form these functions, the partition magic for Windows 7 should have many features, such as safe, easy-to-use, fast, and convenient. The biggest success of partition magic is to make partition management filled with fun. The partition magic MiniTool Partition Wizard developed by MiniTool Solution Ltd. is the best choice. First, enter its main interface.

In the main interface, users can see most of its functions. When moving the mouse pointer to a certain button, users can see corresponding functional explanation below the button. At the same time, the functional explanation will appears in the left bottom of the interface, too. If we want to resize partition in Windows 7, we need to click "Move/Resize" button.

In the above interface, we can resize partition in Windows 7 easily according to prompts. Well, how to merge partitions in Windows 7? MiniTool Partition Wizard can also help you merge partitions in Windows 7 easily, and users only need to click "Merge" button.

In the above interface, we can merge partitions in Windows 7 without damaging data by performing several operations according to prompts.

Currently, the mainstream file system is NTFS. As FAT32 has big defects in Windows 7, many functions of Windows 7 can not be displayed if Windows 7 partition employs FAT32 file system. If we want to convert FAT32 to NTFS, MiniTool Partition Wizard can help us accomplish conversion perfectly without damaging data, and what we need to do is select the option "Convert FAT to NTFS".

Then, click "Start" button, and MiniTool Partition Wizard will help us accomplish all task.

Before NTFS file system, FAT 32 file system was one of the most frequently-used file systems. Since its publishing in August, 1996, FAT 32 has gradually replaced the earlier file systems of Windows due to its excellent properties. Along with the wide spread of FAT 32, most computer users may encounter FAT 32 partition loss or data loss. Nobody looks forward to this satiation. Then how to recover FAT 32 partition without data loss? Actually it is easy to recover FAT32 partition. The function module "Partition Recovery Wizard" of MiniTool Partition Wizard, which is so powerful a partition magic, can help users recover Fat32 partition.

Glorious FAT file systems
FAT, released by Microsoft, is the abbreviation of File Allocation Table. It is also a file system adopted by all non-NT core Windows systems. Along with the development of computer, in order to satisfy different demands of users, FAT generates various editions such as FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, etc. FAT12 and FAT16 are earlier than FAT32 but later on FAT32 replaced them for it has more advantages.

Advantages and disadvantages of FAT 32 partition
Compared with FAT12 and FAT16, FAT32 has three main features.
1. FAT32 partition supports the maximum disk of 2TB but Fat partition must not be less than 512MB.
2. FAT32 partition stores information more efficiently because it adopts smaller cluster.
3. FAT32 partition can reallocate boot directory and use FAT to back up data.

These functions make FAT32 partition once the most widely-used partition format. But it also has some disadvantages and the most serious one is file fragmentation. Fragmentations are easy to come out in FAT32 partition and they will cause slow read-write speed. So clearing up fragmentations is necessary to keep file read-write speed in FAT32 partition. This disadvantage is the main reason why it is replaced by NTFS.

Recover FAT32 partition by using MiniTool Partition Wizard
MiniTool Partition Wizard, released by MiniTool Solution Ltd., is some professional partition magic. It is easy to operate and has comprehensive functions such as create partition, merge partition, resize partition, format partition, change cluster size, etc. MiniTool Partition Wizard almost supports all Windows operating systems, file systems and storage devices. More information can be got on the website: http://www.partitionwizard.com/

To recover FAT 32 partition with MiniTool Partition Wizard, please download and install it. Run it after installation, and the main interface is being shown: 



Select any partition to activate all partition management function. Then click the function module "Partition Recovery Wizard" to recover FAT32 partition.



This is the first interface of the function module "Partition Recovery Wizard". Wanting to recover FAT32 partition, please click "Next".



Select the FAT32 partition that will be recovered and click "Next".



We can set the scanning range by choosing "Full Disk", "Unallocated Space" or "Specified Range" (instructions are following in the red box). It must be noticed that if we choose "Specified Range", we need to input specific value in the textboxes to define the location scanned. If the FAT32 partition needing to be recovered is in the unallocated space, we should select "Unallocated space".



In this interface, we can define scanning method by selecting "Quick Scan" or "Full Scan". There are detailed explanations marked in the red box. We can first select "Quick Scan". Then Select "Full Scan" if "Quick Scan" gets nothing. 



In this interface, partition list displays information of all partitions. If the "Status" reveals "Lost/Deleted", this partition is the lost partition scanned out. Select the partitions that you want to reserve and click "Finish" to recover Fat32 partition. 

Perhaps many Mac users have the experience of recovering files for Mac. As the coming of information age, the value of data information has been improved obviously. When encountering Mac files losses, we will do our best to recover files for Mac rather than silently enduring the losses as before. As to Mac file loss, many expert Mac users consider it inconceivable because Mac provides user with pretty good file security protections, for example, locking Mac files. After Mac files are locked, files themselves can not be modified or deleted, which makes file losses resulting form mistaken operations almost impossible to occur. But in the practical Mac use, maybe many users think locking and unlocking files are very inconvenient or they may not know how to lock files, so important Mac files are not locked, which leads to frequent Mac file losses. However, after important Mac files are lost, we need not feel anxious very much, for MiniTool Mac Data Recovery provides many solutions to Mac files recovery for users, which can help us recover files for Mac easily. More details can be got on the official websitehttp://www.mac-data-recover.com/. 

Many old Mac users should be very clear that among all factors that are likely to lead to Mac file losses, the situations in which Mac file losses result from users' mistaken operations are extremely common. And the most important aspect contributing to this situation is that users do not lock important Mac files. Maybe many new Mac users do not know how to lock Mac files. As a matter of fact, this operation is very simple. We just need to select the file that will be locked and right click the mouse. Then click "Get Info" in the popup shortcut menu. After that, we can see the "Locked" function option in the popup window, just as the following picture shows. 

The function marked with red box is "Locked" function option. Check the marquee and we will finish locking files. When we need to unlock files, we just need to remove the selection. We can see that operations of locking files are very simple. For the sake of important file security, it is suggested that we lock all important files if there is no special need. And if important files are not locked and they are lost, we can use the professional Mac files recovery software MiniTool Mac Data Recovery to recover files for Mac. 

Since MiniTool Mac Data Recovery is professional Mac files recovery software earmarked for recovering files for Mac, it is every easy to recover files for Mac. Take Mac picture files recovery for example. Firstly, run MiniTool Mac Data Recovery. 

In the main window of the professional Mac files recovery software, we can see MiniTool Mac Data Recovery provides four files recovery modules which are designed for users' different files recovery demands. In order to recover Mac picture files, we should select the function module "Digital Media Recovery". 

In the window of "Digital Media Recovery", the Mac files recovery software will list information of all Mac disk partitions. Select the partition where the pictures files to be recovered are and click "Full Scan" to scan the partition completely. 

The above picture is the screenshot of the scan process. The scan will cost a period of time and we should wait patiently. After the scan is finished, all media files in the selected partition will be displayed, just as the following picture shows. 

In this window, all media files in the selected partition are displayed. And they have been classified according to file styles, which make users find the desired pictures conveniently. At this time, select the desired files and then click "Save Files" to store the selected files to a safe location, thus finishing recovering files for Mac. 

As a kind of portable storage devices, SD cards are widely used in digital cameras, PDA, digital players and other digital products. Since they have high transmission speed, large storage capacity and most of them have protection control function, they are appreciated by many users. Along with the wide spread of SD cards, data losses in SD card are becoming more and more and most data losses are caused by users' own accidental deletions. Take digital camera for example. Although SD card provides us with high storage capacity, compared with storage devices like hard disk, its capacity is still small, so many users of digital cameras will periodically delete a large number of pictures stored in SD card. However, due to this kind of deletion, many important image files stored in SD card are lost. Facing data loss in SD card, many users don't know how to solve the problem, so they have to suffer from the annoyance resulting from file losses. 

Many users know we can recover deleted files from computer with data recovery software. Then can we recover deleted files in SD card? Of course we can. We just need to connect SD card to the computer and use data recovery software to scan SD card to recover deleted files in SD card. However, after data losses occur, we should stop using SD card to prevent deleted files in SD card from being overwritten, which guarantees the success rate of data recovery to a large extent. In order to recover deleted files successfully, owning a piece of high-efficient data recovery software is significant, for inferior data recovery software attached with malicious virus programs can not recover deleted files, and they may cause more data loss situations. Therefore, this point should be noticed as well. At this time, the data recovery software, MiniTool Power Data Recovery, painstakingly researched and developed by MiniTool Solution Ltd. is recommended. 

It is easy to recover deleted pictures from SD card with MiniTool Power Data Recovery. Visit the official website http://www.powerdatarecovery.com/ to download and install this data recovery software and then connect SD card to the computer. Then launch the software to recover deleted files. 

In the main interface of this data recovery software, select the function module "Digital Media Recovery" which is specially designed for recovering lost media files. 

In this interface, select the partition standing for SD card and click "Full Scan" to scan lost media files in this partition. 

After the scan is finished, all lost media files in SD card are listed in the display area. Check the files that will be recovered and click "Save Files" to finish the recovery process. 

Power Quest Partition Magic 8.0 makes the partitioning process safe and easy. It will divide a single hard drive into two or more partitions, and allows users to copy, move, resize, split, or merge partitions. Separate your operating system, applications, documents, music, photos, games, and backup files to reduce the risk of data loss if your system crashes. You can even run multiple operating systems on the same machine! However, the downside toPartition Magic 8.0 is that it does not support Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 2008 or operations related to server computers. Thus, this partition software cannot meet the needs of the current generation of computer users.

Partition software that can support latest Operating Systems is usually expensive. But everything has an exception.

As the leading partition manager, Partition Wizard has many powerful functions in partition management. With MiniTool Partition Manager, you can perform the following operation in seconds: Move/Resize Partition, Merge Partition, Change Cluster Size, Copy Partition, Create Partition, Delete Partition, Format Partition, Convert File System, Hide/Unhide Partition, Explore Partition, Partition Recovery, Convert Dynamic Disk to Basic Disk and much more. All these operation would be carried out under a protection mode, so you need never worry about data loss due to any reasons. 

Some more advanced functions: rebuild MBR, convert DPT (disk partition table) format from MBR to GTP, and recover data, move/resize system partitions, convert file systems and much more.

MiniTool Partition Manager can support both MBR and GUID partition table format running on 32/64 bits Operating System including Windows XP, Vista, Windows Server 2000/2003/2008 and the latest Windows 7.

As a professional Partition Manager, Partition Wizard can save you as much as 80% of the time compared to other partition managing software.