Partition manager for servers makes Windows Server management easy

With the development of information technology, the number of servers has increased greatly. Therefore, server partition management software is playing a more and more important role in the home and Professional.

Among so many server partition management softwares, which one is the best? Here is a powerful server partition management software - Partition Wizard Server Edition. It has many advanced functions, such as resize system partition, copy partition/disk, data recovery, convert file systems and so on. Although we can perform disk management by using the function "computer management" built in the Operating System, some advanced functions cannot be realized, such as resize system partition, copy partition/disk, recover data, convert file systems and so on. What's more, server partition management is different from the common partition management for home users.

Why should we need professional server partition software to optimize the performance of our servers?

Windows server can be of different names for its different functions, such as Database server, Files server, Mail server, News server and Web server, etc. Sometimes the server computer administrator needs to manage their server partitions to extend the partition performance.

Server partition manager with advanced features, such as resize/move server partition without destroying data, copy server partition/disk in a secure and effective way, are needed for users who run Windows servers.

Partition Wizard Server Edition is a professional partition manager for server partition management.

As a professional Partition manager for servers, Partition Wizard has many powerful features:
1. Hardware RAID supported: It works perfectly with hardware RAID.
2. Up to 32 hard disks: It can handle up to 32 hard disks, which makes it a good choice for server systems.
3. Up to 2TB hard disks.
4. Hard Disk Copy or Partition Copy Wizards - Easily upgrade/migrate hard drives or copy partitions to protect data.

Here's the link for you to free download Partition Wizard Server Edition and check out how it works as a magic server partition manager.

As for how to resize Windows server partitions, please visit: resize Partition of Windows Server 2003 with Partition Wizard Server Edition for more details.

Recover disk data in Mac OS X by using MiniTool Mac Data Recovery

Many Mac OS X users have met disk data loss situations. Under this kind of situations, almost all users would want to recover disk data timely and completely. In general, many users will think of professional data recovery companies when encountering Mac OS X disk data loss. However, though this is an effective method, users have to pay extremely high data recovery fees. More seriously, private or confidential data are leaked. Therefore, using Mac data recovery software becomes the best choice for Mac OS X disk recovery. Nevertheless, it is not easy to find a piece of excellent Mac data recovery software. Currently, most data recovery software is specially developed for Windows. In addition, the vast majority of Mac data recovery software has functional defects. For example, some Mac data recovery software can only help recover deleted data or recover disk data from formatted partition. In order to help users complete Mac OS X disk recovery better, we suggest using professional Mac data recovery software MiniTool Mac Data Recovery.


If users want to recover disk data by using this Mac data recovery software, please visit the official website http://www.mac-data-recover.com to download it at first. After installation, please run it to get the following interface:



This is the main interface of the professional Mac data recovery software. Here, we can see all-sided data recovery functions which can help recover disk data lost due to almost all logical errors:
“Undelete Recovery”: recover deleted data.
“Damaged Partition Recovery”: recover disk data from formatted partition, inaccessible partition, RAW partition, and other logically damaged partition.
“Lost Partition Recovery”: recover disk data from deleted partition or lost partition.
“Digital Media Recovery”: recover digital media files quickly.

This is just a brief introduction to functions of MiniTool Mac Data Recovery. After seeing the above introduction, users would get a basic understanding to this Mac data recovery software. As long as users select the most suitable module and take operations according to prompts, Mac OS X disk recovery can be completed very easily and effectively.

Disk partition creation

In fact, many computer users are used to saving different types of data to different disk partitions. By doing so, computer users can manage disk partition and find needed data more easily. However, with the increase of data types, users’ demands for disk partitions are increasing as well. Therefore, it is necessary for computer users to create new disk partition. Unfortunately, though all computer users know how to copy a file or folder, few of them know how to complete disk partition creation. In this condition, how to create new disk partition becomes a question that draws much attention of the public. In terms of disk partition creation, some people may suggest using system built-in disk management tool. Nevertheless, since Windows system built-in disk management tool has many functional defects and limitations, it fails to meet all users’ demands for effective disk partition creation. As a result, common computer users who are not familiar with professional knowledge have to seek other feasible ways to create new disk partition.

Professional partition magic
Since software technology has been developing so fast, a large amount of partition magic appears on the internet. Unfortunately, it is indeed not an easy task for common computer users to choose a professional one from so much partition magic. Users are not advised to download a piece of partition magic randomly from the internet since they are not able to identify the real quality of certain partition magic. In view of this, we strongly recommend computer users to visit http://www.partition-magic.com and download MiniTool Partition Wizard in order to avoid the unnecessary troubles which may be brought by inferior partition magic in the disk partition creation process.

Steps to create new disk partition
After downloading professional partition magic – MiniTool Partition Wizard, users ought to install it on computer and get familiar with its functions as well as interfaces. After that, users can start to create new disk partition by using professional partition magic. There are the detailed steps:



Step one: entering the main interface of professional partition magic, users should choose the unallocated space in target computer hard disk, and then click “Create Partition” function, which is used to create new disk partition in the left action panel. After that, the following interface will appear:



Step two: just as shown above, computer users need to write a partition label (users can also omit this operation) and select a partition type, drive letter, file system and cluster size. After that, users should choose a way to decide the size and location of the partition which is going to be created.
1. Drag the black triangles on both sides of partition handle at the center.
2. Put specific values into the text boxes at the bottom.
When these operations are finished, users should click “OK” button to go back to the main interface of professional partition magic so as to continue disk partition creation.



Step three: returning to the main interface, users ought to click “Apply” button in the upper left to confirm all previous operations. In this way, users are able to complete the whole disk partition creation work with the help of professional partition magic.

Resize disk partition of Windows Server 2003

Although Windows Server 2003 will be gradually replaced by Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2012, there are still a lot of users who are fond of Windows Server 2003 at present. Common computer users meet various disk partition problems now and then, so does Windows Server 2003 users. Actually, unreasonable disk partition space distribution is one of the most popular disk partition problems. When unreasonable disk partition space distribution takes place in the daily use of Windows Server 2003 computer, users only know that it is necessary to resize disk partition of Windows Server 2003, but they have no idea about how to achieve this goal. Why does this situation happen? The reason is that most Windows Server 2003 users always rely on the system built-in disk management tool when basic disk partition management is needed. But unfortunately, there is no related function which can help users with disk partition resizing in the system built-in disk management tool of Windows Server 2003. Therefore, some Windows Server 2003 users can only choose command prompt tool to resize disk partition of Windows Server 2003. Although command prompt tool has such function to resize disk partition of Windows Server 2003, it has some defects in function. In addition, even if a tiny mistake takes place in the process of disk partition resizing, serious damage will be brought to partition, causing much inconvenience to Windows Server 2003 users’ life and work. As a result, an easy and effective method must be found for achieving disk partition resizing in Windows Server 2003 computer.

Resize disk partition of Windows Server 2003 with professional partition magic
Considering the fact that most Windows Server 2003 users have no professional knowledge related to disk partition resizing, we recommend using professional partition magic. Hoping to resize disk partition of Windows Server 2003, users are strongly advised to download professional partition magic – MiniTool Partition Wizard, which is able to run perfectly under various operating systems including Windows Server 2003. Here is the downloading website of professional partition magic: http://www.partition-magic.biz.

After downloading and installing professional partition magic on Windows Server 2003, users need to run it to enter its main interface so as to start disk partition resizing.



Since users need to resize disk partition of Windows Server 2003, they should select the partition needing to be resized in the main interface of professional partition magic. After that, users should click “Move/Resize Partition” function, which is designed for disk partition resizing in the “Operations” list.



Then, Windows Server 2003 users need to drag the black triangles on both ends of the partition handle or put specific values into text boxes to finish this step. Clicking “OK” button, Windows Server 2003 users will go back to the main interface of professional partition magic.

At last, Windows Server 2003 users should click “Apply” button in the main interface to complete the whole disk partition resizing process.

How to Free Create FAT32 Partition on External Hard Drive in Windows

Question: To make my 1TB Toshiba USB external HDD work on Xbox to play music, movie, or something else, I need to recreate a FAT32 partition as the first partition of external hard drive. Nevertheless, when connecting the hard drive with my Windows XP computer and opening Disk Management, I found there is no unallocated space for me to create such a partition. My question is how to create FAT32 partition on external hard drive in Windows XP when there is no unallocated space available.

Answer: As Windows XP Disk Management and Diskpart do not offer a feature to create unallocated space via shrinking a volume, users need the help of third party partition manager. Actually, even in Windows operating systems where Shrink Volume has been contained, like Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8, unallocated space shrunk from the first partition can not be located before the source partition. That is to say users still can not create a FAT32 partition as the first partition. Therefore, third party partitioning software is quite necessary under this kind of situations. Well then, how to create FAT32 partition on external hard drive with third party software? Firstly, we need to download such a program. Here, MiniTool Partition Wizard is recommended for it can complete this operation with ease.

How to Create FAT32 Partition on External Hard Drive with MiniTool Partition Wizard

1. Launch the partition manager to get its main interface shown below:



2. Since we need to create a FAT32 partition as the first partition, we should shrink the original first partition and make the unallocated space on the left. Select partition H and choose the function "Move/Resize Partition" from action panel.



3. Drag the left border of partition handle rightwards to shrink partition so as to make the unallocated space on the left, and then click "OK" to go back to the main interface: how-to-create-fat32-partition-on-external-hard-drive-create-partition



4. Select the newly created unallocated space and choose "Create Partition" from the left to get the following interface:



5. Set attributes for this partition and click "OK" to get the main interface again:



6. Now we can see a new FAT32 partition appeared at the first place, but it has not been applied to computer. Please click "Apply" to apply changes.

After these 6 steps, the problem how to create FAT32 partition on external hard drive is solved. If your PS3 or Xbox can not read an external device, check whether the first partition is FAT32. If not, create a new FAT32 partition as the first partition or directly convert the first partition to FAT32 with MiniTool Partition Wizard. See Convert NTFS to FAT.