The Good
* Straightforward and fairly easy to use.
* Has the typical partition management tools (resize, format, delete).
* You can change the letter and name of a partition.
* You can copy a whole hard drive or partition.
* Supports hardware RAID.
* Works on hard disks of upto 2 TB in size.
* You can hide/unhide partitions.
* Has some "error checking" features.
* Has the ability to copy dynamic disks.
* Has the ability to recover deleted/lost files and partitions.
* Has the ability to defrag disks.
* Has the abilty to "rebuild MBR".
* Has the ability to securely delete/wipe hard drives.
* You can create a bootable disk.
* You can password protect the program.

The Bad
* Only supports Windows based partition formats (FAT, FAT32, NTFS) - no Linux or Mac.
* No option to not show existing files when using the file/partition recovery feature.
* The bootable/rescue disk does not include the file/partition recovery or defrag features.
* The program window always opens up fully maximized.

Free Alternatives
Paragon Partition Master Free Edition
Partition Wizard
EASEUS Partition Master Home Edition

For final verdict, recommendations, and full review please click here.

Ashraf  –  14 years ago  –  ¿Te ha parecido útil este comentario? si | no (+118)

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EASEUS Partition Master 5.5.1 Professional Edition can be made portable.
After installation copy program’s directory wherever you like (USB,...).The package is kind of huge ~73,6 MB. If you want to reduce the size :

1. Compress all exe and dll files in every directory. You can use UPX, it's free (http://upx.sourceforge.net/)
Size: ~73,6 MB ---> ~53,8 MB

2. Open program and create/burn bootable disk (Tool --> Create Bootable Disc)

3. Go to bin directory and delete "image.iso" file
Size: ~53,8 MB ---> ~24,8 MB

Now you got Portable EASEUS Partition Master 5.5.1 Professional Edition size of ~24,8 MB
(~ 73,6 MB ---> ~24,8 MB).

3K3  –  14 years ago  –  ¿Te ha parecido útil este comentario? si | no (+54)

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EASEUS Partition Master is a very good app -- because they have different features I use both EASEUS Partition Master & Paragon's Partition Mgr... when it comes to partitioning, the chief difference is Paragon's software likes to adjust or fix Windows for you, & that's not always wanted. For example if you copy a system (Windows) partition, Paragon apps will make that new partition the one your PC/laptop uses. That's great if you're replacing a drive, but sometimes gets in the way when you're not. [1 example: many PCs/motherboards give you the option to boot from whatever drive you want when it (re)starts -- you might want to copy a Windows' partition to an external drive, but keep using your PC/laptop as is] Paragon has also developed the capability to copy your Windows' partition to a drive in another PC/laptop, then change the drivers so Windows will actually fire up -- normally that requires a re-install to add the correct system [motherboard etc] drivers -- so Paragon's design approach is not bad -- just different.

That said, working with drive partitions is kind of like sending a simple text e-mail -- there are all sorts of programs you can use to write & send it, but the recipient will get the same e-mail regardless. If you're going to partition a new hard drive, it'll work whether you use Windows, the free Linux solution, GParted on a bootable CD, or in this case EASEUS Partition Master. EASEUS would obviously like people to buy their product, so they add extra features, like Partition Copy & the new abilities to Rebuild the MBR [Master Boot Record], defrag a hard drive, & secure erase.

I haven't used EASEUS Partition Master to rebuild the MBR, & don't plan to... I don't PLAN on messing up my system drive so it's necessary. ;-) Paragon Backup shows the MBR as the 1st drive track, & can back it up independently (without backing up the full partition). I have restored those MBR backups, more than once I'm sad to say [having a MBR that needs restored is not a good thing]. While restoring from backup is almost guaranteed to work, rebuilding/repairing the MBR is not. Still, it's worth having the capability if/when for whatever reason I can't just restore a MBR backup, & I'd try EASEUS 1st in that case based on my success using their Partition Table Doctor [IMHO the EASEUS developers really do know what they're doing.].

Copying a partition is much like restoring a backup image to a new partition/drive [aka cloning], but can have an important difference... when you copy, the partition file tables are new. If you use Microsoft's NTFS (NT file system), you may/may not know that it keeps a permanent record of any bad sectors on a partition -- that record's cloned with everything else, so if you're replacing a failing drive, a cloned new one will show all the same bad sectors. There are probably other reasons to copy rather than clone, but that's the one I've come across in actual use -- I'm lazy, & having a backup image created as part of the cloning process, moving to a new drive/partition, means there's one less backup I have to do. ;-)

As far as partitioning a hard drive goes, the biggest single reason today IMHO is the huge size of many hard drives today... The way I shop for hard drives is similar to the way I buy food, comparing the cost per ounce, or with hard drives, cost per 1 GB. A smaller, but still big hard drive may cost ~$0.11 GB, while a huge (1 - 1.5 TB) drive may cost only $0.06. Lots of folks do the same thing [dealnews.com always lists the cost per GB] -- lots of folks likely are just as unhappy as I am when disk checking [thorough], formatting etc. Huge drives = *Very* long waits. Dividing a huge drive into smaller, much more manageable partitions can cut those waits down to something much easier to live with.

mike  –  14 years ago  –  ¿Te ha parecido útil este comentario? si | no (+26)

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Correction to my previous post in which I said that todays giveaway can be made portable just by copying programs directory. It can not be done that way. I apologize if I misled anybody.

3K3  –  14 years ago  –  ¿Te ha parecido útil este comentario? si | no (+24)

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#2,

In easeus website, i saw the new features are:

New! Rebuild MBR to boot system again.
New! Speed up your computer by disk defragmentation.
New! Permanently wipes sensitive data on disk by wiping disk.

wish to help you.

luke jess  –  14 years ago  –  ¿Te ha parecido útil este comentario? si | no (+22)

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