Partition Commander 10

by Avanquest

Product Features

• The safe, easy, reliable, and secure way to separate and protect your important data! Copy, move, split and merge any partition without losing data.
• Divide a single hard drive into two or more partitions
• Works with any Windows® 95/98/Me/2000 Pro/XP/Vista, Linux and DOS partition
• Step-by-step wizard guides you through partitioning process, allowing you to undo any partition step
• NEW: Recover any deleted partition; fix computer startup problems; run directly in Windows®; preview any partitioning tasks before completing it; defragment any partition for optimal performance; and work with USB & Firewire drives.

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B000SAUFBG
• Item model number: 1521
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 21, 2007
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,408 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)

Product Description

Amazon.com

Is your hard drive slow and cluttered? Reclaim your wasted hard disk space, organize your important files, and speed up your hard drive with Partition Commander 10 Professional.

Reclaim your wasted hard disk space, organize your important files, and speed up your hard drive with Partition Commander 10 Professional.

Copy, move, split and merge any partition without losing data.

Improve your hard drive speed and organization by separating your operating system, applications and important data.

If you have important data, applications or games on your PC Partition Commander can help you protect them in the event your operating system crashes. Partition Commander safely organizes your hard drive so that your favorite applications, games and even your operating system run faster. Best all, everything is automated. Simply follow a few steps and you're done. It couldn't be easier.

Organize & OptimizeYour Hard Drive
Hard drives start with one single partition. This partition holds the operating system, your applications, games and all of your important data, music, photos and videos. Over time, your hard drive becomes very cluttered and messy. Using Partition Commander, you can significantly improve your hard drive speed and organization by separating your operating system, applications and important data. This enables your hard drive to find files faster and easier.

Redistributed Unused Disk Space
Do you need additional space in one of your existing partitions? No problem! Partition Commander lets you move unused disk space from one partition to another. Windows can't do this alone. Partition Commander's built-in does all the work for you in a few simple steps.

Built-in Safety Features for Maximum Protection
No other partitioning software includes built-in safety features to protect you against system failures, including power loss. Partition your hard drive with ease and confidence knowing that Partition Commander safety and undo features will always be there if you need them.

Features
Partition Commander--safe, easy, reliable, and secure. Separate and protect your important data!

• Divide a single hard drive into two or more partitions
• Works with any Windows 95/98/Me/2000 Pro/XP/Vista, Linux and DOS partition
• Copy, move, split and merge any partition without losing data
• Step-by-step wizard guides you through partitioning process (new)
• Undo feature any partition step
• Powerful safety features protect you against system failures while partitioning (new)
• Recover any delete partition (new)
• Fix computer startup problems (new)
• Runs directly in Windows (new)
• Preview any partitioning tasks before completing it (new)
• Defragment any partition for optimal performance (new)
• Support USB drives (new)

Product Description

Is your hard drive slow and cluttered? Reclaim your wasted hard disk space, organize your important files, and speed your hard drive with Partition Commander 10 Professional. Do you have important data, memories (music, photos and videos), applications and games on your PC? By using Partition Commander you can finally protect them in the event your operating system crashes. Partition Commander safely organizes your hard drive so that your favorite applications, games and even your operating system run faster. Best all, everything is automated. Simply follow a few steps and you're done. It couldn't be easier. BENEFITS: Organize & Optimize Your Hard Drive. Hard drives are manufactured with one single partition. This partition holds the operating system, your applications, games and all of your important data, music, photos and videos. Over time, your hard drive becomes very cluttered and messy. Using Partition Commander, you can significantly improve your hard drive speed and organization by separating your operating system, applications and important data. This enables your hard drive to find files faster and easier. Redistribute Unused Disk Space. Do you need additional space in one of your existing partitions? No problem! Partition Commander lets you move unused disk space from one partition to another. Windows can't do this alone. Partition Commander's built-in does all the work for you in a few simple steps. Built-in Safety Features for Maximum Protection. No other partitioning software includes built-in safety features to protect you against system failures, including power loss. Partition your hard drive with ease and confidence knowing that Partition Commander safety and undo features will always be there if you need them.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Can't access NTFS partitions over USB (Windows XP), January 9, 2008

By 

Paul T. Stone - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Partition Commander 10 (CD-ROM)

The following review pertains to running Partition Commander on Windows XP. I haven't attempted to run it on Vista, and my criticism may not apply there. However, most businesses are still running Windows XP, so I think it's important to note that there is a superior product for that platform.

I am giving this product one star, because, on Windows XP, it still doesn't have a major feature which PartitionMagic had five years ago. That is the ability to browse and copy files from an NTFS partition over USB.

Why is this important? One of the main uses of partitioning tools is to try to fix a partition which has become non-bootable. When that happens, you will also want to copy your files off of the disk, before attempting to repair the MBR and maybe also the Windows XP installation. Unfortunately, Windows XP does not permit accessing an NTFS partition over USB. There are a number of software applications which can do this, and PartitionMagic is one of them. It will install a driver which will give you the capability, either in PartitionMagic, or via Windows Explorer, to view and copy your files from the external NTFS partition over USB.

I was also disappointed with Partition Commander, because when you attempt to do boot corrections, the generated report is useless. It just reports "Success", without telling you whether the correction changed anything or not. I believe that PartitionMagic also has a more extensive capability for recovering non-booting partitions.

If you are running Windows XP, I strongly recommend PartitionMagic over Partition Commander. It's too bad Symantec killed it (no version forthcoming for Vista). It was a fantastic product.

28 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Adds Vista support and an improved UI to a fine partitioning tool, October 9, 2007

By 

Graham (Palo Alto, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Partition Commander 10 (CD-ROM)

I've used Partition Commander happily for several years. I upgraded to Version 10 so I could get support for the new format Vista partitions.

Despite the picture of a Vista Partition on the box, the in-box CDROM doesn't support Vista partitions. However Avanquest provides a free download upgrade (to version 10.1) which adds Vista support. This 71 Meg download includes an ISO CDROM image so you can burn a new bootable CDROM for Vista. Happiness.

I successfully updated several partitions, including shrinking a Vista boot partition which Vista itself had declared non-shrinkable. Things mostly went OK, but I did have to use my Windows Vista installation disk to repair the boot path for Vista - somehow Partition Commander hadn't left the boot path quite right.

Compared with earlier versions, Version 10 has a substantially improved user interface, which displays more information on each screen. For example I found it much easier to identify and select partitions and there was better progress feedback as operations proceeded.

Updating partitions isn't something to do casually. But if you decide you want to do it, Partition Commander makes it pretty straightforward, whether for growing, shrinking, moving, or changing attributes.

21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Product works as advertised, September 14, 2007

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J. Ta "avid reader" (Denver, CO) - See all my reviews
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Add me to the list of satisfied customers. I first tried "Disk Director" by Acronis. It ran for a while, displayed lots of messages (and no errors). But my disk drive stayed the same. So I got Partition Commander, and I am happy to say that the resizing worked. More importantly, everything still worked afterwards.

Be warned though, that you might need LOTS of time for this process to complete. When you first run the app, it might take a LONG time to load up. I could see the launcher.exe running in the task manager, so I knew it was loading, but it took a while to actually render. And then after I clicked "restart" to apply the changes, it also seemed like nothing was happening for a long time. Resist the temptation to start hitting keys! Just wait, and it will happen. It took 10-12 hrs for it to move 15GB from my D drive to my C drive. So start up the process in the evening, and give it overnight to run.