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Partition Magic has ended it’s services and updates years ago, now new generation partition managing programs with more powerful features have been developed, among which, Partition Expert, with it’s unique Roll-back technology outstanding itself in this market.
What is Roll-Back Technology anyway?
Roll-Back Technology, or Disaster-recovery Technology, is the unique-technology Partition Expert has, it enables users to get data back when something emergency happens to the precess of resizing partition of moving data, situations like suddenly power-off, blue or black screen due to virus attack, or many others you might have met before.
Maybe you’ll say that with the UPS, there’s no need to worry about unexpected power failure. That’s true, but how about virus attack, you may have heard the malware attack event happened last year, say what’s if you were resizing partition with Partition Magic software, will you be able to ensure data safe?
Well, Partition Expert will ensure data safe when anything happens to the resizing process. That’s the one feature that differs from other third-party partition manager.
How to tell if Partition Expert’s resizing and moving algorithms are smarter than others?
Just check the perform speed and the effect.
You can download all the partition software on your Windows computer, any operating system above Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 will be just fine.
Extend C Drive, for example, check other software’s resizing speed and how many times they reboot system.
The fastest one and the minimum reboot times, the better the algorithms;
The more it recovers data after force shutdown, the better the partition software.
So, resize C Drive and force shutdown the computer and check if Partition Expert wins.
Tips: To maximize the differences, it’s better to test those same type programs on real machine instead of virtual machines like VMware.
Portable Program: Yes
Both 64-bit and 32-bit package available: Yes
Supported OS: Windows 10, 8.1, 8, 7, Vista, and XP (All Editions)
Supported OS: Windows Server 2016, 2012, 2008, and 2003 (Server and above Editions)
File System: EXT2 EXT3 (read) NTFS, FAT32, and exFAT (Read-write)
Able to convert NTFS to FAT32 without data loss.
Disk: GPT and MBR. Able to Convert MBR to GPT without data loss.
Other features: Copy volume, wipe disk, wipe free space and create bootable media.