As we all know, before using a new disk, we need to format it and then partition it so that we can use it to store data. While using disk, we should also reasonably manage it instead of blindly accessing data. This will make data usage in the disk more convenient and securer. In fact, disk and partition management is not something mysterious. Almost every computer user has performed certain disk and partition management operations like create partition, format partition, delete partition. Windows built-in disk management tool is able to do these basic operations. In Windows XP and later editions of Windows operating systems, you can even expand or shrink partition as the next picture shows: 

Nevertheless, functions of Windows built-in disk management tool are still limited. For better and higher level disk and partition management, such as merge partition, move partition, and copy partition, you can ask portable partition magic like MiniTool Partition Wizard for help. The powerful MiniTool Partition Wizard helps you realize all those partition management functions, as well as wipe secret data from the disk to avoid privacy leak. 

All the time, most computer users have a common view that deleted data is thoroughly moved out from computer. Actually, the truth is contrary. Deleted or formatted data in Windows is actually not gone. It is only marked with a special label for not being displayed. 

Your disk may be copied by some viruses and then Hackers will use great data recovery software like MiniTool Power Data Recovery to recover all deleted secret data completely. That is why privacy leaks even after they are deleted. MiniTool Partition Wizard is able to help you avoid such thing. The wipe disk function of the powerful portable partition magic – MiniTool Partition Wizard can help you wipe secret data thoroughly so that no data recovery software is able to recover them any more. Wipe disk function has very simple operations. Launch MiniTool Partition Wizard to enter the main interface. 

In the disk and partition list of main interface, find the partition saving secret data, and then click "Wipe Partition" button: 

Select a wiping method in this interface. The first two kinds are faster, but not very thorough. The last three kinds are slower but more thorough, and there will be no way to recover the data after they are wiped with these three methods. Click "OK" button to return to main interface. 

 

Paragon Partition Manager is very powerful in functions and well received for supporting many different Operating Systems. However, it is far more expensive than any of the other partition management software. Therefore it is not a great choice for the common computer users.

Partition Magic is an old partition management software with a long history. However, it has not been updated ever since it was bought by Symantec. It would be unwise to risk your precious data on outdated technology.

Partition manager is easy to download due to its smaller size. It also has a relatively low price. However, this partition software also has the same problem as Partition Magic in that it is rarely updated. What's more, it is limited on the number of operating systems that it supports. It is slow in moving and resizing partitions, and sometimes, it will crash mid-operation. The interrupt of the operation process can cause severe damage to target partitions and may make your system unbootable.

MiniTool Partition Manager is a newly released partition software developed by MiniTool Solution Ltd. This partition manager is designed for both server and non-server users. It supports all 32/64 bits Windows Operating Systems including Windows 2000, 2003, 2008, XP, Vista and Windows 7. MiniTool Partition Manager has a powerful protect function, and there would be no data loss even in the event of computer failure, blue screen, power failure, or sudden cessation of the software by users. It does not only have a considerate data protection but is also optimized for partitioning operations. Therefore, it has a much faster speed than any other partition software. All this saves a lot of time for users. We are pleased to offer this professional partition management software for FREE for the home and Professional editions, and a surprisingly low price for the server and enterprise editions.

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MBR disk uses a master boot record disk partition system which contains a master boot record (MBR for short). MBR includes operating system boot code, master partition table and exit code. Master partition table is used to record some basic information of disk partition and boot operating system to help users find desired partition. MBR disk supports 4 primary partitions or 3 primary partitions and 1 extended partition, and the biggest partition size can reach 2TB. MBR is the most widely-used disk type, and also the default type of newly-added disk under Windows operating system. When you mount a new disk in Windows operating system, Windows operating system will guide you to initialize new disk to MBR disk. However, what if we mount an initialized GPT disk and we want to initialize GPT to MBR? There are two common ways to initialize GPT disk to MBR disk. That is to use Disk Management Tool and the third-party partition magic like MiniTool Partition Wizard. 

Take Windows Server 2003 for example, I will initialize GPT disk to MBR disk with Disk Management Tool (Utility) below: 
1. Click "start".
2. Select "My Computer" on pop-up menu and right click.
3. Click "Management" on pop-up menu.
4. On the computer management interface, click "Disk Management" on the left storage unit to see interface below: 

5. Delete all partitions on GPT disk.

6. After that, select GPT disk and right click, and then click "Convert to MBR Disk" on pop-up menu. 

Performing steps above, we will initialize GPT disk to MBR disk on Windows Server 2003. Because Disk Management Tool of Windows Server 2003 only can delete partition one by one, it's troublesome if you have many partitions.
Note: Because deleting partition will cause partition data loss, please back up data before deleting GPT disk partition.

MiniTool Partition Wizard Server Edition is an outstanding disk partition software with various disk management functions able to move/ resize partition, merge partition, change cluster size, copy partition, copy disk, create partition, delete partition, format partition, convert file system, explore partition, hide/unhide partition, set active partition, convert dynamic disk to basic disk, change drive letter, wipe partition, set partition label, etc for both Windows and Linux systems. Furthermore, MiniTool Partition Wizard supports almost all Windows operating systems including Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows 2003, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 and supports various file systems such as FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS4, NTFS5, EXT2, EXT3 and Linux Swap, etc. Moreover, MiniTool Partition Wizard provides comprehensive data protection modes to ensure data safety under each operation. Most importantly, MiniTool Partition Wizard perfectly supports RAID, RAID0, RAID1 and RAID5, etc.

Wipe partition function provided by MiniTool Partition Wizard helps those who want to delete their certain kind of data permanently. Here is a demo on performing wipe partition with MiniTool Partition Wizard.
Download MiniTool Partition Wizard at the official website http://www.partitionwizard.com and then launch it: 

Select and right click the partition to be wiped and then click "Wipe Partition" in the drop-down menu.

Select needed wiping method and click "OK".

Last, click "Apply" to execute partition wiping. 

As the latest operating system, Windows 8 replaces the traditional Windows operating system style with the brand new user interaction interface. Meanwhile, Microsoft edits the Windows 8 kernel to develop a piece of operating system which is well applied in both personal computer and rising tablet computer. It is believed that Windows 8 can make up the Windows operating system disadvantages in mobile application field. However, although Microsoft makes the brand new edition in Windows 8 kernel, it doesn't make obvious progress in Windows 8 disk management tool. You can only see basic Windows 8 partition management functions in Windows disk management tool such as create partition, delete partition, format partition, convert dynamic disk to basic disk and extend/compress partition. As users who use this disk management tool know, the Windows 8 disk management tool is not perfect – it does well in operations mentioned above except extend/compress partition. With extend/compress partition function, you can only perform Windows 8 partition management – extend partition or compress partition backward, so it is not practical in daily use. What's worse, it is unable to perform Windows 8 partition management operations such as merge partition, change cluster size, wipe data and hide partition. Therefore, you need to find a piece of third-party Windows 8 partition magic to better perform Windows 8 partition management.

Among all Windows 8 partition magic, MiniTool Partition Wizard is undoubtedly one of the best Windows 8 partition magic. This is because this Windows 8 partition magic has superior features shown below.

Firstly, this Windows 8 partition magic does perfectly in data security. MiniTool Partition Wizard provides users with preview function and "Using Enhanced Data Protecting Mode" option, ensuring data security during Windows 8 partition management.

Form the interface above, you can find that "Using Enhanced Data Protecting Mode" decreases operations on partition data to lowest when you perform Windows 8 partition management – extend partition, greatly promoting work efficiency and data security. At the same time, after you extend partition, all the changes are preview effect before you click "Apply" button. As long as you don't click "Apply", you can free re-perform perform Windows 8 partition management operations to extend partition, avoiding disk and data damage caused by repeated adjustment. If the partition adjustment is desired, you can click "Apply" to perform operations.

Secondly, when you use the Windows 8 partition magic MiniTool Partition Wizard, almost every step has corresponding prompt which guides you to perfectly perform Windows 8 partition management – extend partition. According to its prompts, you can know the use of the button and make corresponding choice. With this function, even users who don't further know Windows 8 partition management Extend Partition function can easily extend partition.

Finally, you can free adjust partition with the Windows 8 partition magic MiniTool Partition Wizard.

When using the Windows 8 partition magic MiniTool Partition Wizard, you can drag the border of partition handle or directly input exact value to extend partition. The increased partition size is related with the available space around. That is to say, you can extend partition front forward as well as backward. Compared with Windows 8 built-in disk management tool, this Windows 8 partition magic is freer.

In daily use of Windows 8, fine partition management is essential if users want to keep its superiority. Surely, the advantages of good partition management are more than that, also including facilitating data storage and management, improving use ratio of hard disk, promoting data storage security, etc, which can not be neglected. Despite those benefits, few users can experience them because most users can not find a good method for managing Windows 8 partition.

Speaking of Windows 8 partition management, most of the users perhaps firstly think of Windows 8 built-in disk management tool. But, having many flaws, the tool fails users in excellent Windows 8 partition management. Is there another way to manage Windows 8 partition? Actually, the Windows 8 partition manager MiniTool Partition Wizard can help users make it easily and perfectly.

Comparisons between Windows 8 partition manager and Windows 8 built-in disk management tool Many users may raise the question why the Windows 8 partition manager MiniTool Partition Wizard is able to realize the operations that can not be achieved by Windows 8 built-in disk management tool. That is because MiniTool Partition Wizard, compared with Windows 8 built-in disk management tool, has more comprehensive functions. Their comparisons are following.

Partition Management FunctionsMiniTool Partition WizardWindows 8 Built-in Disk Management ToolMerge PartitionsResize NTFS Partition without Damaging DataResize FAT Partition without Damaging DataCreate/Delete/Format/Activate PartitionMove PartitionHide/Explore PartitionChange Cluster Size/File System without Influencing DataCopy PartitionSupport Dynamic DiskSupport GPT Disk
Seen from this, this Windows 8 partition manager has more practical utilities.

It has been mentioned that MiniTool Partition Wizard has many comprehensive functions. Some users may still have doubts about it. So we'll run this Windows 8 partition manager and introduce its functions briefly, hoping to get rid of those doubts.

After launching MiniTool Partition Wizard under Windows 8, we'll see its main interface, as follows.

Seeing from the top area marked with red box, we can know that MiniTool Partition Wizard has abilities to manage entire disk, partitions and dynamic disks. After selecting any partition, we can see its complete partition management functions from the left red box. If those functions are not enough to persuade you into using this Windows 8 partition manager, it also has many other unique features that are not possessed by other software of this kind, such as recovering lost partition and power-off protecting function. These reasons may be able to attract you.

Many of us having many local drive partitions in our PC. There are lot of valuable and important data in those drives.   So, in many case we want to hide some data from others to

avoid unwanted access.

     In that case, it will not provide more security to hide a folder. Any one can easily view those hidden folders. So, it would be better to hide an entire hard disk partition from others to get a better security. Yes, this is possible in all versions of Windows.

     There are many third party tools are there in net to hide a partition. But, Windows have a powerful option to hide a partition rather than any other tools. We just use command prompt (DOS) to perform this operation. Just do the following steps…

1. Open the Run box by typing Winkey + R or Start->Run
   
2. Type “cmd” in the Run box. (Without quotes)
   
3. The command prompt will be open. Then type “diskpart” and hit Enter. (Without quotes)
   
4. Then type “list volume”. (Without quotes) Now, it will display all the disk partitions of your PC. (See below image)
   
5. Then type the drive letter which you want to hide and hit Enter. (“F” is used in the image) Then the entered volume will be selected.
   
6. Then type “remove letter f” (Without quotes) and hit Enter. (Replace “f” with your drive letter)
   
7. That’s it, you have done, your partition was hidden. Then just restart your system once to better performance.
   

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A few years ago, it seemed disk space woes were firmly behind us. Desktop drives offered terabytes of storage for almost-pocket-money prices, and even mid-range laptops came with hundreds of gigabytes of capacity.

Yet today many of us are feeling the squeeze. We’re building up ever-larger libraries of photos and movies, and at the same time, PCs and tablets have moved from mechanical drives to faster – but much smaller – solid-state disks. Modern desktop systems tend to come with a secondary mechanical disk for data storage, but compact laptops and tablets simply don’t have the space for a second hard disk. You’re left with as little as 64GB of solid-state storage in total, which in practice leaves very little room for your data.

There are ways to make space, however. On these pages we’ll show you how to squeeze the most out of a small hard disk, find and eliminate unnecessary files, and reduce the amount of space Windows itself demands. You may be surprised at how much space can be freed up with a bit of smart housekeeping.

Before you start to delete files, it’s worth seeing whether you can make more of the capacity of the drive itself. A system that’s been in use for some time could well contain one or more unneeded partitions – perhaps an old Ubuntu installation, or, if you’re using a MacBook, a Boot Camp partition. Such partitions can be easily deleted, and their space reclaimed. Many devices also come with a recovery partition, which you may choose to remove. This isn’t a decision to take lightly, though.

To delete a partition, you’ll want to use the Disk Management console. To find it, search Windows for “Create and format hard disk partitions”: in the window that opens, click on your system disk in the top pane and look at its layout in the bottom pane. If you see an unwanted partition, simply right-click and select “Delete volume…” to remove it. Then, to assimilate the space you’ve just freed up into your main Windows disk, right-click on your system partition, select “Extend volume…” and choose the maximum extension available.

A few caveats are necessary. It goes without saying that before deleting a partition you should make absolutely certain you don’t need its contents. Once you’ve subsumed the space into your main system partition, there’s no easy way to recover the data it contained. We should also point out that all partition operations carry a tiny element of risk: you might want to check your disk for errors before reorganising the partitions, and if you’re using a battery-powered device, make sure it’s connected to the mains power before embarking on any repartitioning tasks.

As a new boot method of operating system which is likely to replace BIOS, UEFI has been admitted by many computer users in virtue of its high system boot speed and the default disk type of GPT which supports hard disk larger than 3 TB. However, after you install Windows 8 with UEFI, do you feel annoyed about how to manage GPT disk? If you do, the following content will be helpful. You can know a method which will manage GPT disk well.

Windows 8 built-in disk management tool has many defects, so it can not meet users' demands for GPT disk partition management. If you want to do well partition management on Windows 8 installed through UEFI, Windows partition magic will be the best choice. And here, we suggest MiniTool Partition Wizard. This free partition magic is fully in support of UEFI and GPT and has comprehensive functions. Users can use it to manage Windows partition well.

Please visit the official website http://www.partitionwizard.com/ to download MiniTool Partition Wizard. Then install and launch it. We'll see its main interface, as follows.

Select any GPT disk partition and users will see corresponding partition management functions shown under "Operations" column, for example, Format Partition, Delete Partition, and Move/Resize Partition, Extend Partition, Merge Partition, Split Partition, Copy Partition, and change cluster size without damaging partition data. Besides, this free partition magic also provides functions to copy and wipe disk. It can meet users' almost all demands for GPT disk partition management. Seen from this, as professional partition magic, MiniTool Partition Wizard is undeniably the best choice for partition management on Windows 8.