Overall, Macrorit Disk Partition Expert Home 2013 isn’t bad: the interface is familiar, it’s easy to use, and there’s enough functionality to carry out most basic partitioning tasks. We’re not sure there’s much substance behind this - we couldn’t spot any recovery tools at all - but without further explanation it’s hard to say for sure. In particular, Macrorit claims Disk Partition Expert is "the only one freeware with advanced technology of power-off protection and data disaster recovery", which sounds great. This lack of documentation could mean we’re missing some plus points. And there’s no real help, maybe a problem if you’re new to partitioning. The program can’t convert partitions from one type or file system to another.
Okay, these were "EFI System" and "Reserved" partitions and should probably be left alone, but we’d still like the ability to wipe or delete them if necessary.Īnother notable limitation is that you don’t get a "Merge Partition" option, and so if you do divide your hard drive into several partitions, there’s no easy way to reverse this later.įile system support is relatively limited, too, with support for NTFS and FAT/ FAT32 only. Oddly, the program offered only a very limited set of options (View Properties, Surface Test) for one or two of our system partitions. Performance was good, and the "Wipe Volume" option stood out in particular, offering several ways to securely erase the partition (fill sectors with zeros, ones, zeros and ones, the 3-pass DoD 5220-22-M and the 7-pass DoD 5220-28-STD). This all worked generally very well in our tests. But once you’re happy, just click "Commit" and the program will carry out each of your commands in turn. Any changes aren’t applied straight away, appearing instead in a "Pending Operations" pane. There’s a list of your drives and partitions select one, and you can choose whatever options you’d like to perform.
The interface for all this is much like most other partitioning software. And there are tools to copy partitions change their drive letters or labels check them for errors delete, format or wipe them, and more. You can resize or move existing partitions from a single dialog. The program supports creating new NTFS or FAT32 volumes on MBR, GPT and 2TB+ drives.
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