

Firstly… SSD’s (ie NAND based storage devices) are notorious for not being able to fully recover data.

In the meantime, yanking a drive and testing on a ‘known good’ system is pretty much how most professionals do things, so as long as your known good rig is MS based Partition Wizard v11 will have you covered.Īnother caveat we need to point out is while MiniTool proudly proclaims SSD File Recovery abilities there are two things to take into account before having faith in this claim. We really would like to have seen a Linux and/or Apple version available. The only fly in the ointment so to speak… is Partition Wizard v11 (like the ten versions before it) is MS Windows only. Ext file system actually out numbers the number of ‘Windows’ systems we deal with that have hard drive ‘problems’. This is great a boon, as these days the number of Linux systems using a flavor of the. With version 11 now you can not only work with a ton of different file systems, it can even format disk(s) into the EXT file formats (Ext2,3,4 supported). Optimize partitions to use them on SSD drives.Īll in all, if you're looking for an application to manage any aspect of the partitions made on your hard drives, MiniTool is what you need to do so quickly and comfortably, without any complications and with all the menus perfectly clear.One area that older versions of Partition Wizard were… less than optimal with was handling non-NTFS filesystem-based drives.

Convert the unformatted file system from FAT/FAT32 to NTFS or the other way around.Support for disks of up to 3 Terabytes.Convert the disk type to MBR or GPT without losing data.

Capacity to create, delete, copy and clone disk partitions.The following are the most important functions and features of this program: Partition Wizard is already a classic tool to manage hard drives. Its functions allow the user to manage the different partitions both at basic and advanced level, where you can carry out operations such as recalculating the size or establishing a partition as primary. This application stands out for having a very intuitive interface. A program to manage partitions on Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1 and 10 One of the best examples is MiniTool Partition Wizard. There are tools for these tasks that behave like professional utilities, despite being free and for domestic use. Managing the partitions of your hard drive can help your storage units to perform better, giving them more capacity to save your files.
