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By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 02:12:34 +0000

I use this software to convert an external hard drive to fat 32 format. It took about 4-5 minutes which was about 7 hours quicker than fat32format (which gave me an error at 100% complete). Gotta love Microsoft support for fat 32. Thumbs up to EASEUS Partition Master.

By: Dennis Beach

Dennis Beach — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 14:22:18 +0000

I used this offer as the perfect excuse to upgrade my completely-full hard drive (couldn’t even download MS patches). I put a 2nd (larger) hard drive in my PC and used the EASEUS disk copy wizard. It rebooted into a sort of “safe-mode copy utility” to make the copy while windows was not running. After making the new hard drive the primary, I was running perfectly with loads of free space. I came out a real winner with this download!

By: TK

TK — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 11:18:42 +0000

#21, You have a couple of factual errors in your statements, it is a fact that all magnetic drives that have a constant RPM will perfom significantly faster at the outside tracks. The reason is twofold, one there are more sectors in the outer tracks yet each entire track is read or written in the same amount of time as the tracks nearer the center and two since more sectors exist per track in the outer tracks less mechanical seeking has to take place. For these reasons alone, for maximum drive performance the OS, regardless of type should be placed in the first partition aproximatly 10% the size of the presumably large drive and the paging file moved to the outer edge of the partition with a decent disk managment tool, especially in vista which make heavy use of the paging file regardless of how much RAM you give it.

If you do not believe me… test it yourself with any UDMA (don’t test it on a USB connected drive) capable disk erasing program that reports the realtime write speed and you will see during the first 10% or so of the drives erase cycle the write speed is quite impressive with modern drives managing a large percentage of the interface speed capability but as the write progress it gets progressivley slower, almost painfully slow compared to the first 10%.

I have seen one article pointing out that nowadays it is cheaper and in many ways better to get a 1T.0 7200rpm SATA than 300Gig 10000rpm drive since the first 300G of the 1T.0 drive will average out at much the same if not better performance than the average performance of the more expensive 300G suposedly faster drive. And the rest of the 1T.0 drive can be partitioned for archival purposes. Not to mention the lower power consumption and quieter operation.

Other error is regarding cluster size, what you say is only true of FAT-32 formatted drives. NTFS and ext2/3 offer much smaller cluster sizes, with NTFS defaulting to 4Kbyte if I recall correctly.

By: TK

TK — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 10:41:36 +0000

I have some issues with this Partition “Master” Pro, it fails to even see my FAT32 partition even when windows has allocated it a drive letter it’s clearly partition type 0x which is 0C FAT32-LBA, the only unusual things about the partition are it is on drive letter A: since floppy drive letters are never used here and it is allocated to an entire 1T.0 external drive. It is primarily used on my HD sat receiver as an external drive for it DVR function. But is also used as backup device for my DVB-T/R ext2 based filesystem too.

It also doesn’t understand ext2/3 partitions even though an installable file system driver is present and active and drive letters are allocated, it incorrectly calls the partitions “Other” It also fails to even see my 16G SD flash card that alreadt has been converted into a basic MBR disk and partitioned. But the program doesn’t even see the mass storage device! I would like to see it be able to create ext2/3 partitions too with user defined block sizes for all the formatting it does, depending on what we plan to store on a drive it makes sense to define the appropriate cluster size from 0.5K right up to 64K for optimum performance rather than sticking with the default which is a compromise between speed and slack space wastage for mixed use.
These are the sorts of things I would expect in a Partition Master Professional program.
Other than that I commend the developers for offering updates as and when they become available as do others as can be seen by the steadily rising ratings of the new versions each timne they are released here on GAOTD and I look forward to the next version apearing here, hoping at least some of my wish list makes it in.

By: samomma

samomma — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 00:06:34 +0000

NO.69 No it won’t. Thats why it’s called Giveaway of the day!

By: Saskey

Saskey — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 21:38:06 +0000

Arghh – I’ve been checking for a year and a half, and the first software that I would find useful goes live on the day I am away, so I miss it!

By: joe

joe — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 14:42:36 +0000

#56 mike

Talk about concise and complete information. I could not have expected anymore helpful information than you gave me.I really appreciate it.
Thank you very much
joe

By: den

den — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 13:19:07 +0000

EASEUS Partition Master Professional Edition 3.5
It creates THE BEST BOOT CD for XP that I have used.
Thks !

By: Sean

Sean — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 06:42:07 +0000

I’m sad this program will not work on dynamic disks.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 06:15:02 +0000

I have been using Easeus Partition Home (free edition), and tried to download this giveaway but it did not work. On opening, it just shows an empty page with no harddrive displayed. I uninstall it, re-install it again, the same thing. So I reverted back to my home edition, and everything is fine again.
I have used Parititon Magic 8 and Easeus is the better of the 2. And also, some posts state that it does not merge partition, which is not true, because it does merges partition, with the merged partition’s files all under a directory. eg. partition B merged to partition A with all the partition B files now under partition A under the directory B:\. Partition Magic 8 does not work with USB-hard drive. Easeus Home does.