Partition Manager 9.0 Personal

The optimum allocation of disk resources is the key to managing data and operating systems effectively. You can easily and safely organize your hard drive with Partition Manager.

Partition Manager is the best tool available today! It provides flawless partitioning operations of all kind: resize, merge, split partitions and redistribute free space, initiate new hard drive, convert to different file systems and much more.

$39.95

Since 1996. Now Partition Manager is available in Personal, Professional, Server and Enterprise Server editions.

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Change partition

With Paragon Partition Manager you can easily adjust and optimize your hard disk. The following partition parameters can be changed:

Mark Partition Active/Inactive. Paragon Partition Manager enables the user to set Active/Inactive flag for primary partitions of the hard disk. By default the operating system will boot from the active (bootable) partition at startup.
Hide/Unhide Partition. Paragon Partition Manager allows the user to Hide/Unhide primary and logical partitions. The operating system does not mount hidden partitions, thus preventing access to their contents.
Change Partition ID. The partition ID is an identifier of a file system that is placed in the partition. The partition ID is saved in the Partition Table, which is used to quickly detect the supported types. By manually changing the Partition ID value, it is possible to manipulate the accessibility of partitions.

In addition, you can improve your system’s performance by changing the cluster size or converting your file system without destroying data. For example, FAT32 file systems provides the best performance for small hard drives (several GB), but NTFS provides more data protection in the event of failures.

While converting file system, the program first checks the consistency of the current file system and then verifies whether the on-partition data meet the requirements of the desired file system or not. After completing the testing, the program re-organizes the file system metadata and user files.

Partition Manager converts the following file system types:

- FAT16 > NTFS, FAT32

- FAT32 > NTFS, FAT16

- NTFS > FAT16, FAT32

- Ext2 > Ext3

Changing cluster size may improve file system performance and reduce the amount of wasted free space. Cluster Size is one of the most important parameters of any file system. The Cluster Size value implicitly affects the performance since it defines the size of the file system metadata.