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Create, delete, format, extend or shrink partitions without restarting, with Active Partition Manager

The very term “partitioning” causes some kind of fear to those that are not familiar with this side of managing a PC. However, there are now available some programs that make the management of partitions a lot friendlier. Active Partition Manager is a free and powerful program, easy to use, with some functions that may […]

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Troubleshooter

If a Windows partition leaves unallocated space that you cannot merge

The other day I faced this strange problem. Having replaced my 120GB Kingston SSD with Samsung 860 Evo 500GB SSD, I used Macrium Reflect and a Disk Image I had taken with it to clone my old disk and use all my programs in the new one without having to install or configure anything at […]

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File tools System tools

Create and mount strongly encrypted volumes for any folder or drive, with VeraCrypt

VeraCrypt is a free and reliable program that will let you create encrypted volumes for any of your folders or drives. It supports on-the-fly encryption, which means that your files are encrypted right when they are saved and decrypted whenever you open them, automatically, without you doing anything at all. Your files are not readable […]

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File tools System tools

Create, resize, move, copy, hide partitions, with EASEUS Partition Master

EASEUS Partition Master is a free program that will help you to resize and Move partitions, Copy a Partition, Copy Disk, Create, Delete and Format partitions, Hide and Unhide partitions. EASEUS Partition Master is a nice program, but I found AOMEI Partition Assistant and Active Partition Manager friendlier and better working. For example, while you are […]

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File tools System tools

Create, Resize, Delete, Merge, Split partitions, with AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard

AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard is a free application that will let you manage partitions — create, resize, delete, merge, split. A migration wizard assists migration of OS to another hard disk including SSD and HDD. Step by step wizards help in copying a partition, or cloning a hard disk. The free version does NOT support […]

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System tools Troubleshooter

Migrate Windows to SSD easily and safely, without reinstalling anything

Just finished transferring Windows to a Solid State Drive (SSD) using a disk image instead of re-installing everything, I thought others might find useful some information on that, and avoid mistakes that I made. Let me just say how great this change was, programs run so much faster now on the SSD, even InDesign, that […]

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Create partitions, destroy, resize, move, check or copy them, with GParted

GParted (Gnome Partition Editor) is a free program distributed as image of a bootable CD that will let you change the partition organization in a hard disk, while preserving partition contents. GParted is an industrial-strength package for creating, destroying, resizing, moving, checking and copying partitions, and the file systems on them. This is useful for […]

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System tools

Create, delete, manage partitions, with Cute Partition Manager

Cute Partition Manager is a free but advanced program for hard disk partitions. You can use it to add, edit, delete and manage the partitions in your PC, to install more than one operating systems, or to separate your data. Cute Partition Manager will let you preview all changes before you save them. It lets […]

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