Partition Magic - Partition Manager Software
Extend partition with one step
Resize/Move partition without data loss.
Create, delete and format partion with simple steps. Copy partition and disk to transfer data with ease. Support disk and partition size larger than 2 TB. Keep your data safe even in case of power outages or hardware failure.
Resize/Move partition without data loss.
Create, delete and format partion with simple steps. Copy partition and disk to transfer data with ease. Support disk and partition size larger than 2 TB. Keep your data safe even in case of power outages or hardware failure.
Creating partitions for other OSes
- In this part of the Help we have described the way to partition a hard disk by the FDISK program for the DOS/Windows operating system. As it has been said above, the FDISK program creates primary and possibly (but necessarily so) extended DOS partitions and logical partitions (disks) on them, and can also leave disk space unallocated to be used by other OSes. However, the Windows operating system, while being a very widely distributed operating system for PCs, is not the only operating system!
You can configure the hard disk of your computer to used with the Linux operating system. In this case you do not need to create neither primary nor extended DOS partitions (if you are not going to use DOS/Windows afterwards).
For example, the installation program from the ASPLinux operating system distributive includes a disk manager that allows partitioning a disk into partitions that can be used by this OS.
Acronis DiskEditor (or, more precisely, the disk manager that comes with it) also has all the capabilities of creating partitions on hard disks.
Beginning the Work
Automatic partition operations
- Create partition method
- Hard disk drive selection
- Select unallocated space
- Partition selection
- Partition size
- Partition type
- File system
- Logical drive letter
- Partition label
- Hard disk drive structure
Manual partition operations
- Creating partition
- Copying a partition to unallocated disk space
- Moving a partition to unallocated disk space
- Resizing and/or moving a partition
- Splitting partitions
- Changing partition labels
- Merging partitions
- Explore partitions
- Formatting a partition
- Delete partition
- Checking hard disk partitions for errors
- Defragmenting a partition
- Wiping unallocated hard disk space
- Clearing a hard disk
- Changing partition letter
- Converting partition file system
- Copying Master Boot Record
- Hiding a partition
- Unhiding a partition
- Changing cluster size
- Changing partition type
- Setting active partition
- Resizing a root
- Resizing i-node table in Linux Ext2/Ext3
Working with Acronis DiskEditor
- Files and partitions
- Connecting a hard disk to the computer
- Setting BIOS
- User interface
- Technical support
- Selecting partitions (disks) for working
- Master Boot Record (MBR)
- Creating primary partition
- Formatting a partition
- Creating a logical partition
- File Allocation Table (FAT) and Root folder (Root)
- A file as a chain of clusters
- A folder in DiskEditor main window
- Files with short names
- Files with long names
- Folders and subfolders