Splitting the partition in two (75/25) took 43 sec and merging the partitions together again took 26 sec.

To give an idea of performance, a surface scan of a 100 GB partition took us 31 min 22 sec, while a realignment to align the partition with disk sector boundaries and improve disk access times, took 2 min 10 sec. Other useful extras include an integrated run of CHKDSK to check the filing system, a disk surface scan and a secure disk wipe, including quick wipes and US Department of Defense 3-pass and 7-pass overwriting modes.

MiniTool Partition Wizard Professional 8.1.1 review: useful extras

So you have to be on your guard to select the desired drive in the wizard. We would have expected to be able to select the drive to work on before invoking the Merge Wizard, but the software takes no notice of what’s selected in the main screen, displays all valid drives and automatically selects drive 1. It shows a folder and file tree, but you can’t perform operations at this level.įunctions like merge and split used to be a rarity in partition managers, but they’re both here and worked well to restructure a hard drive. You can also explore a partition, although this is really just to check you’re working on the right one. MiniTools Partition Wizard supports Windows Dynamic disks and can convert from dynamic to basic types without data loss. There’s a menu bar along the top, a toolbox down the left-hand side and the rest of the screen showing details of the drives the software has found on your system, with indications of capacity, current use and drive stats. The main working window in the program looks much like those in the better known applications, from the likes of Acronis or Paragon. That’s Wizard in the sense of somebody who can work magic, rather than a step-by-step, single-task Windows tool. Windows PC, but one we hadn’t come across until now is MiniTools Partition Wizard Professional, now in version 8.1.1. There’s quite a bit of choice when it comes to partitioning tools for the It’s substantially cheaper than most of its competition and a more basic, Home, version is available for free too.

It offers quick and easy control of all the essential partition tasks you might need to undertake on your drives (but watch which drive you’re merging partitions on). MiniTool Partition Wizard Professional 8.8.1 should really be up with the main names in partition management.

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