February 19, 2013
When you ask a tech crowd about disk partition managers, many people will agree that EaseUS Partition Master is the best tools for the job. Why? Because it offers many great features, yet remains easy to use. It's also MakeUseOf's favorite partition manager for Windows. This review focuses on the partition manager only.
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January 16, 2013
Edit your partitions from outside your operating system. The GParted Live CD is a simple Linux distro you can use to change the size of your partitions – or wipe a drive entirely. Built around GParted, the ultimate partitioning software, the GParted Live CD is probably the simplest way to use GParted on any computer – regardless of what operating system it runs.
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October 3, 2012
Take control of your hard drives. Whether you want to edit your partitions, clone an entire drive, check SMART data or otherwise manage the way your computer's data is organized, Parted Magic is the tool you've been looking for. It's a live CD with lots of tools baked in. Whether you're an IT professional constantly in need of ways to manage machines or just some guy looking for a simple way to re-partition a hard drive, Parted Magic is simple to use and heavy on features.
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September 4, 2012
One of the drawbacks when switching from Windows to Mac is the lack of native NTFS support. You can read from NTFS volumes with no problems, but writing is another story. Luckily software like Paragon NTFS for Mac OS X exists to restore the missing link and make your NTFS volumes useful again. The software costs $19.95, has already been updated with full support for Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8). It's also one of the many apps you can purchase with your MakeUseOf Rewards points!
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May 14, 2012
Popular Linux distributions make it pretty easy to encrypt your home folder or even entire partitions if you'd like, without many issues. This is a great option to have if you're someone who needs their data, whether it's the home folder or entire partitions, that need to be encrypted. In most cases, all you need to do is select a check mark, and it'll take care of the rest.
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April 30, 2012
At $49.95 per license, Paragon Hard Drive Manager 12 Suite may be out of reach for some of you. Through this giveaway, we'll be dishing out 25 copies of the ultimate disk management and partitioning tool, Paragon Hard Disk Manager 12 Suite retailing at $1250, for free! If you're interested, read through this review of the software and learn more about the participation details of this giveaway near the bottom of the post.
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September 19, 2011
As you may know, Mac formatting and PC formatting for external hard drives are totally different. Granted, it's possible you may already know how to partition an external hard drive DIY-style. Furthermore, your hard drive may already come with onboard software that does it for you. However, let's take a look at how to do so.
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June 9, 2011
In Windows operating systems, hard drive partitions and external drives are identified by drive letters from A to Z. Some of the letters are reserved, but other partitions or optical drives are assigned subsequent letters. In some cases, however, a permanent drive letter assignment is desirable. Here's how you can permanently assign drive letters to selected devices.
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May 31, 2011
In Windows 7 and Windows Vista, resizing your volumes or re-partitioning your hard drive has become a lot easier than in previous Windows versions. However, there are still a few pitfalls that will require you to use third party applications rather than the internal Windows Disk Management tool. In this article I will show you how to change the size of volumes or create new ones and which tools to use.
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February 8, 2011
In a recent article I detailed how to format a USB drive and in a follow-up article I explained what file systems are good for. In both articles I mentioned that there is a 32GB size limit for partitions when formatting with FAT or FAT32. Well, as some of you certainly know, that is not the entire [...]
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January 25, 2011
Formatting a USB drive is no different than formatting any other drive. But how often have you actually formatted a drive and did you ever wonder what the various options mean? Most of us go with the default settings without second guessing their logic. Naturally, optimal settings depend on the type of hardware to be [...]
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January 23, 2011
A few days ago, I showed you how to physically install a second hard drive into your system, and today we will be looking at the software side of that. Even if you didn’t crack open the case and add in another drive, you might still want to read on if you’d like to learn [...]
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October 4, 2010
One of the main Mac user complaints has to be the inability to access and modify NTFS permissions. Installing Paragon NTFS for Mac OS X 8.0 changes that in the simplest of ways. Install the driver on your computer, and you can instantly modify and add files to any NTFS partition. This is particularly useful [...]
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September 6, 2010
With its easy to follow step by step wizards, Paragon Hard Disk Manager makes it a cinch to address all of your hard drive maintenance needs – from partitioning, to back up and restore, migration, system recovery and much more. Paragon is the ideal option for advanced users, and with its easy to follow instructions [...]
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August 2, 2010
Hard drives are huge nowadays, not just in popularity, but also in data storage size. Now that you can easily pick up a terabyte hard drive for a reasonable price, you have a new problem: how do you split up that space? Partitioning is a method of dividing storage space inside a hard drive and lets [...]
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