Here is the procedure for moving the boundaries of hard disk partitions with the program. This is usually done when there is not enough free space on the system disk - adding it by reducing the adjacent partition. The program can be purchased on the MiniTool® developer website.
The developer says on its website: “When using Move/Resize Partitions, the feature's advanced data protection technology keeps your data safe, even in the event of a power outage or hardware failure.”
However, it is up to you to trust the message of the developer and the source from which you received the program...
The Russian version can be downloaded for free from rutracker.org.
The program can also be launched with
Below we will look at an example of expanding a section hard drive C D program MiniTool Partition Wizard Server Edition 8.1.1 in the Windows 7 operating system. Upon completion of the operation, you do not even need to restart the computer. Installing the program is very simple, so we will not discuss its installation procedure here.
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And so, by clicking on the shortcut located on the desktop, we launch the program.
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The main window of the MiniTool Partition Wizard Server Edition program opens.
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Select section C and to the left, in the proposed operations, click the Expand section button.
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The “Partition Extension” window opens. We indicate section D, in which we will take free space.
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By moving the slider, we set a new size for partition C - approximately 100 GB (you won’t achieve an even value, since the program offers system-allowed partition size values). Click the OK button.
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In the MiniTool Partition Wizard Server Edition program window, you see the new partition sizes you specified. In the upper right corner of the window, click the Accept changes button.
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The size of partition D is reduced - the operation time will depend on the performance of your computer and the volume of files moved from the trimmed part of the partition to the remaining part.
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The size of partition C increases - this operation proceeds faster.
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We don’t have to wait long for the section information to be updated...
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Click the OK button.
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In the “General” options menu, click the Exit button to close the MiniTool Partition Wizard Server Edition program. That's it - you can continue working on your computer!
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When you open the My Computer window, you see the new partition sizes.
The operation of expanding hard drive partition D using free space on adjacent partition C is carried out in a similar way. But since section C is located operating system, then the program will ask you to restart your computer before making changes. During loading, changes will be made, the process of which you can observe on the monitor screen - and the computer will automatically reboot itself again. This is not required when running a program loaded from a flash drive.
Introduction:
Target:
Instructions:
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Opening 
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Feel free to click “OK” and move on. 
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p.p.s. All manipulations with the SD card are at your own discretion! Remember, the more applications you transfer to a flash drive, the less life you leave for it! Transfer only “heavy” applications and applications that you rarely use!
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- Introduction:
I quite often get asked questions about how to create a partition on a memory card for transferring applications, for example, using a program such as .
And for this reason, I decided to write a short instruction on how to properly divide a flash drive into sections for those who have difficulties. Maybe many people don’t need it anymore, but as statistics show, there will always be questions)))
Target:
Divide the flash drive into 2 partitions FAT32 and EXT2.
FAT32 - partition for your data.
EXT2 - section for portable applications on the card.
The current size of the EXT2 partition is 32-512MB. There is no point in doing more than 512MB! But if you suddenly want more, then keep in mind that the size of the EXT2 partition should occupy no more than 90% of the total volume of the card!
Instructions:
First, we need to acquire a program for creating partitions on disks. I personally used it, and I advise you, the program is free and convenient.
Step 1
Insert the SD card into the card reader. We automatically connect the card reader to the computer. If necessary, we make a backup of data from a flash drive, because... When dividing, all data will be erased!
Step 2
Opening MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition, find our map and delete the section by clicking "Delete" in the context menu:
Step 3
Next, click “Create” on the unallocated space of the map:
A window will open in front of us where we will configure the section parameters.
Step 4
First, we create a partition of type FAT/FAT32, which will store your usual data such as photos, music, and all sorts of files. This will be a section tailored to your needs.
To do this, in paragraph " File System"select the type FAT or FAT32:
For cards up to 2GB, it is recommended to choose the FAT type. If the card is 4GB or more, then select the FAT32 type.
Next, in the “Create As” item, select the “Primary” item:
In the "Drive Letter" item, the volume letter is assigned (this is like the letter local disk etc.). You can also enter the name (label) of your partition in the “Partition Label” column. I named it "SDCARD" for example.
Then in the “Partition Size” item, select the size of our partition and click “OK”:
Step 5
Similarly, click the “Create” item on the unallocated area of the map and now create a section on which the applications transferred to the SD card will be stored.
In this case, a warning window like this may pop up:
Feel free to click “OK” and move on.
But now in the “File System” column we select the type EXT2 or EXT3:
In the “Create As” item, select “Primary” again, enter a label name if you want, and the size of the partition will be the rest of the map. And click "OK".
Step 6
Now click the “Apply” button in the upper left corner and agree to the changes:
Afterwards the processing process will start and, if everything is successful, a window will pop up:
The process is over! If you made a backup, then we throw the data back onto the FAT32 partition (although you will only see it in the computer explorer) and insert the flash drive into the device and use it to your health!
p.s. I don't pretend to be universal. We write about errors and other things in the comments. Glad if it helped someone.
p.p.s. All manipulations with the SD card are at your own discretion! Remember, the more applications you transfer to a flash drive, the less life you leave for it! Transfer only “heavy” applications and applications that you rarely use! ">
Many users have encountered the need to resize their disks, split them into disks new hard disk or change the file system, this is where it comes in handy simple program Mini Tool Partition Wizard. .
With Mini Tool Partition Wizard you can do the following:
Change the size of disks on your hard drive;
Create boot sectors of your hard drive, delete them, and even in certain situations restore erroneously deleted ones;
Create hard drive clones with all the information stored on it;
Change the file system of any drive on your hard drive.
Select individual hard drive partitions with the appropriate parameters;
Safety of data loss, if the operation occurred in error, you can always restore the necessary data.
Thanks to the built-in elements you can carry out detailed testing and check the performance of the hard disk
The program works with popular file systems, such as: FAT, NTFS, allows you to work with RAID arrays;
Using the program, you can split one disk into several and resize existing partitions.
In addition, you can format existing disks. It even works with disks that are combined into RAID arrays. It is possible to change the file system of a partition from FAT to NTFS, without losing information.
Possibilities:
Creating primary and logical hard disk partitions.
RAID support.
Converting a partition with the FAT file system to a partition with the NTFS file system.
Supports disks and partitions larger than 2 TB.
Copying one of the sections.
Cloning an entire hard drive (creating an exact copy on another physical drive).
The Disk Map option allows you to visually display the partition structure and hard drives.
Recovering the MBR boot area.
Changing a dynamic disk to a basic one.
Testing the performance of the hard drive.
Hide/show a section.
Setting the active partition.
Assigning the appropriate letter to the section. Selectively assigning the desired letter to a section at the user's request.
Change settings serial number section and Type ID.
Align all partitions or a designated partition to optimize hard drive performance
More fast speed work and high level security
System requirements:
Windows Server 2000 SP4, 2003, Home Server, 2008 R2, Windows Small Business Server 2003, 2008, 2011,
Windows XP, 2000 Professional, Vista SP2, Windows 7 SP1 and Windows 8, Windows Server 2012(all editions, 32 bit and 64 bit)
Functions and capabilities of the program
Creating a section
Partitioning a section
Deleting a partition
Resizing a Partition
Converting a Partition
Copying a partition
Section expansion
Formatting a partition
Research (view) section
Hide section
Changing the drive name
Make the section active
Partition recovery
In this situation, we are interested in the last function, which we will consider in detail using a specific example.
Partition recovery.
There were 3 partitions on the hard drive: C, D and E. But one day, D and E disappeared. In disk management there was the following picture:
Instead of partition D, we have an unknown partition, the data of which cannot be accessed. Instead of section E we have empty space. There are problems with the partition table. Launch Partition Wizard.
Select the disk and launch the Partition Recovery Wizard:
Selecting a recovery disk:
It is better to choose scanning the entire disk:
To begin with, select quick scan, to full scan We will always have time to contact:
The most crucial moment: viewing the partitions (by double clicking) and marking the partitions that we want to have on our disk. Please note that the existing section C is also marked:
After clicking Finish, a warning will appear because... the second line is unchecked and the corresponding section will be deleted:
We start the execution of the selected operations:
Confirm execution:
In order for drives D and E to appear in the My Computer directory, you need to assign them the appropriate letters. So for drive D:
Similarly, we assign a letter for E. As a result, we have:
In some cases, you will need a version of the program on the boot disk
Allows you to make the operation of restoring a hard drive partition simple and accessible even for beginners.
Supports both 32 and 64-bit operating systems of the Windows family, that is, Windows XP, Windows 7 and Vista (you can read about what 32/64-bit operating systems are here). Home users will be able to easily perform complex operations with system partitions. Functions include: changing the size (volume) of partitions, copying system partitions, creating new partitions in the system, deleting or formatting a partition, converting partitions, hiding a partition, changing the drive letter (partition), setting the active partition, recovery partition, etc. . The program also supports working with disks and partitions with a memory capacity of more than 2 TB. (terabyte). I think this is more than for a free program.
As for working with this program. I will only describe the procedure that I already described above, namely, increasing the memory capacity of the C: drive. Why not all the features of the program? Because the program has a lot of functions and put it all in one article with detailed description impossible. And I don’t want to simply pour “water” without doing this work myself.
And so... First, let's launch the program itself (I hope you have already downloaded and installed it). An interface will open where everything is in Russian.
Partitioning disks
First, to increase the size of partition C: from 30 GB to 50 GB, we need 20 GB of extra memory, which we don’t have. To get it, you need to reduce the size of another partition, say partition E:, by 20 GB. To do this, we launch the program. By launching it, we will see all the disks and partitions that are on your system. I have three partitions in my system: C, E, and D. Select drive E by simply clicking on it once. Next, at the top of the program there is a “Size” button, click on it. You can also click right button mice, from context menu select "Size". A window like this will open.
Reducing the volume of partition memory
Here, in order to reduce the size of the partition, drag the right end of the slider to the left and at the bottom in the “Free up space after” field, monitor the volume. When there is approximately 20,000 MB there, it will mean that we have freed up 20 GB from the E: partition.
Increasing the size of the C drive
In it, we drag the left slider to the left, thereby filling it with those megabytes that we took from drive E. And, so that the program has already completed all these operations, click, in the upper left corner, the first “Apply” button in the form of a checkmark. During the process, the program may ask you to restart the computer and will already perform operations to resize partitions in Bios. After the reboot, you will be able to work with the computer.
You can also create new sections in the same way. First, we free up the required amount of memory from any partition, then on the unallocated, freed part, press the left mouse button and click on the “Create” item. In the next window, indicate the letter of the future partition, and leave the rest as default. And click OK, and then “Apply”. That's all. After the reboot, you will be able to work with the new sections you created.
That's probably all there is to it. I think now you can easily change the size of partitions in your system at your discretion, as it is convenient for you.
Note: This program will be very convenient when buying a Laptop, since they often hard disks are not divided into sections.
Attention: When working with a Laptop, you must consider the following nuances:
Before work, be sure to fully charge the laptop, or even better, leave it connected to the power supply, otherwise data loss may occur if you turn it off while the program is running.
Laptops have so-called “secret” partitions designed for system recovery. You need to work with them more carefully or not touch them at all.
Among other things, I warn you that if your disk on a laptop, or even on a desktop computer, is full to capacity, then I think in any case it will not be possible without data loss. Therefore, before doing this, save the data that is important to you on some removable media.
If, after resizing the disk, the system requires you to format the disk, then simply restart the computer and the disk will work as it should.
One not very wonderful day, after another trip outside the house with his old laptop, he suddenly refused to work and “ordered to live a long time.” As an engineer from service center, one of the key microcircuits has failed motherboard, and ordering a replacement would be comparable in price to a new laptop.
There is nothing to do - I looked around and bought myself a new copy with a fairly balanced configuration and not too steep in price. Here, in fact, a situation arose that became the motive for writing this post.
I was surprised to discover that the laptop’s hard drive was already divided into two logical partitions, on the first of which, as usual now, the operating system is installed Windows system 7 (64-bit). Everything seems to be correct, on an old laptop I once had to create partitions myself from the only default system disk. However, the hard drive turned out to be divided exactly in half, and given that its declared size was 500 GB, as much as 250 GB were allocated for the system disk, which was clearly a lot, 5 times more than required in the case of modest requests to the installed software.
It is possible that not everyone had to be closely interested in this topic and then the problem will not be entirely clear: “Well, just think, the system disk is large, so fill its empty space with data, what difference does it make where to store it.” Let me explain, just in case, what’s going on here.
The operating system on a computer is akin to a living organism: it lives its own life, constantly acquires additions and updates, and often gets sick. And sometimes it happens that the virus or viruses she picks up turns out to be so indestructible that the best antiviral agent becomes a complete restoration of the system partition from a previously saved image of it - a specially created backup archive of the entire logical disk. Therefore, if you also store your data on the system disk, then firstly, the saved image will become too large, and secondly, such saves will have to be done too often (if you want to have fresh backup copies of your data), and this procedure is not very fast.
Therefore, the task arose: to change the distribution of space on the hard drive among its logical partitions (as they say, its “breakdown”) while maintaining the data already available on them and at the same time create backup copy system partition, which is then periodically updated. Nothing special, but the caveat was that I decided to try to do all this exclusively with the help free programs that can be found on the Internet.
The search didn't take too long. We managed to find several worthy alternatives to well-known commercial products like Partition Magic or Acronis True Image and even a lot of descriptions of how to use them step by step, in Russian. After reading the descriptions on the manufacturers’ websites, the impressions of those who have already used them and weighing all the pros and cons, I chose the following finalists:
Step one is to create a backup copy of the partition. The EaseUS Todo Backup Free program (http://www.todo-backup.com/products/home/free-backup-software.htm) was perfect for this mission. The presence of free version of this program for use in business enterprises, which will undoubtedly please the owners of any companies who understand the importance Reserve copy your data.
Step two is the main one, for which everything was started, repartitioning the logical drives. The tool I chose was MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition (http://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html) from the Canadian company MiniTool Solution Ltd. To be even more precise, I used a version of this program that runs from a separate CD and thus does not require installation on a computer - MiniTool Partition Wizard Bootable CD.
All the steps - creating a backup of the system partition and re-partitioning the hard drive - were completed without any surprises: I made a backup copy of the system disk as an image, reduced the size of drive C to 60 GB, and attached the rest of the free space to drive D.
Both programs had an intuitive interface, so you didn’t even need to read the documentation available in English. By the way, a lot of detailed information was found on the Internet. step-by-step descriptions using these programs in Russian.
One of the operations that optimizes computer performance is aligning hard disk partitions. This operation is intended to improve performance HDD operation, reducing SSD wear, as well as reducing the risk of file system errors on any type of media. Details about what causes unaligned partitions and how alignment solves this problem have already been described in other articles on the site, where we carried out this operation using programs:
I wouldn’t like to repeat the theory once again; if you’re interested, take a look at any of these articles using the links. In this publication I would like to touch upon the topic of carrying out this operation from a slightly different angle - how to carry it out free way. The fact is that the Paragon Alignment Tool program, which aligns disk partitions, is a paid product. Specific time this operation could be carried out in the free standard edition of AOMEI Partition Assistant, but now the alignment function has been moved to the paid edition Pro programs. One of the site’s readers told us how to align disk partitions for free. With his easy approach, friends, I am sharing this secret with you.
How to align hard disk partitions using MiniTool Partition Wizard FreeAbout MiniTool Partition WizardMiniTool Partition Wizard is another disk space management manager for Windows devices, offering basic functionality in the basic Free edition and more advanced features in the paid Professional, Server and Enterprise editions. Free in the editorial office Free programs you can do quite a lot of things:
Create sections, delete them, resize, copy, hide, align;
Copy entire discs;
Format partitions in file systems NTFS, FAT32, exFAT, also supported by Linux Ext2, Ext3, Ext4;
Carry out a disk surface test;
Recover MBR bootloader, etc.
The advantages of this program are that it is free and has a modern usable interface; the disadvantage is the lack of support for Russian.
You can download MiniTool Partition Wizard Free from the link:
https://www.partitionwizard.com/download.html
Alignment operation.
So, friends, download the program, install it and launch it.
In the MiniTool Partition Wizard window we will see the interface organization familiar to disk space managers: a menu bar at the top, a menu bar on the left, and in the center a visual and tabular representation of the disk structure. How do you know which partitions are unaligned?
Click each one in turn HDD and click the “Align All Partitions” option.
If the disk does not have unaligned partitions, we will see a software notification like this.
It tells us that the disk does not need to align the partitions, they are all already aligned. And if there are unaligned sections, we will see a different notification. It will indicate how many of them need leveling. Click “Ok”.
Now we look down the left side panel: when we expand the tree of sub-items of the planned operation, we will see a list of sections that are defined by the program as unaligned. Then we can do things differently. We can click the “Apply” button at the top and begin applying the alignment operation to all identified sections.
Or we can cancel the operation plan using the “Discard” button at the top and confirming the action.
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