PQ Partition Magician

PQ Partition Magician official version is a very excellent hard disk partitioning tool that supports large-capacity hard disks. It can easily split, delete, and modify partitions, easily convert FAT and NTFS partitions to each other, and can also realize multiple C drives. Boot function.

Introduction to PQ Partition Magician software

PQ Partition Magician can optimize the disk to make applications and systems faster, resize partitions without losing disk data, partition the disk, and resize, move, hide, and resize the disk between different partitions and partitions. Operations such as merging, deleting, formatting, and moving partitions can copy the entire hard disk data to partitions, recover lost or deleted partitions and data, and restore or copy disk data to other disks without restoring the damaged system. It can manage and install multiple operating systems, conveniently convert system partition formats, and also has the function of backing up data, supporting operations under Vista systems.

Features of PQ Partition Magician

1. It can resize the hard disk partition without losing the hard disk data, and can convert the NTFS file system to FAT, FAT32 or FAT32 file system to FAT file system.

2. Supports creation, formatting, deletion, copying, hiding, and moving partitions, can copy the entire hard disk data to other partitions, and supports long file names.

3. Supports FAT, FAT32, NTFS, HPFS, Ext2FS partitions and large-capacity hard drives greater than 8GB.

4. Easily change partition size, parameters, etc. without causing data loss. It supports changing the cluster size of FAT16/32 and NTFS. It can access NTFS and Ext2FS partition data under DOS or any Windows version. It supports MFT optimization of NTFS partitions. , version that can convert NTFS partitions (XP <-> 2000 <-> NT).

Features of PQ Partition Magician software

1. Quickly create partitions

2. Format partition

3. Delete partition

4. Quickly resize

5. Recover deleted partition

6. Merge partitions

7. Reallocate free space

8. Copy the hard drive

9. Copy partition

PQ Partition Magician Notes

1. For the hard drive in your hand, the first thing to do is to partition it. Whether the hard disk partition is reasonable will directly affect the convenience of future work and the security of data. The most common partition table errors we see are also the most serious errors on the hard disk. Different degrees of errors will cause different losses. If there is no active partition mark, the computer cannot start. However, after booting the system from the floppy drive or optical drive, the hard disk can be read and written, and the active partition can be reset through fdisk to repair it. If a certain partition type is wrong, a certain partition will be lost.

2. Under normal circumstances, after the hard disk partition is completed, three forms of partition status will be formed: primary partition, extended partition and non-DOS partition. Non-DOS Partition in the hard disk is a special partition form. It separates an area of ​​the hard disk for use by another operating system. For the operating system of the primary partition, it is a The divided storage space. Only the operating system in the non-DOS partition can manage and use this storage area. Systems outside the non-DOS partition generally cannot access the data in the partition.

3. The primary partition is a relatively simple partition, usually located in the front area of ​​the hard disk, forming a logical C disk. The main boot program is part of it. This program is mainly used to detect the correctness of the hard disk partition, determine the active partition, and transfer the boot right to DOS or other operating systems of the active partition. If this program is damaged, it will not be able to boot from the hard disk, but the hard disk can be read and written from the soft zone or optical zone.

4. The concept of extended partition is relatively complicated, and it is very easy to cause confusion between hard disk partition and logical disk; the fourth byte of the partition table is the partition type value, and the normal bootable basic DOS partition value larger than 32MB is 06. The extended DOS partition value is 05. If you change the basic DOS partition type to 05, the system cannot be started, and the data in it cannot be read or written. If you change 06 to a type that DOS does not recognize, such as efh, DOS will think that the changed partition is not a DOS partition, and of course it cannot read or write.

5. Many people use this type of value to implement the encryption technology of a single partition. Restoring the original correct type value can restore the partition to normal. There are other data in the partition table used to record the starting or ending address of the partition. The damage of these data will cause the partition to be confused or lost. Generally, it cannot be restored manually. The only way is to rewrite it back with the backup partition table data, or to obtain the partition from other hard disks of the same type and with the same partition status. table data, otherwise other data will be permanently lost.

6. Since the microcomputer operating system only reserves 64 bytes of storage space for the partition table, and the parameters of each partition occupy 16 bytes, the operating system only allows the storage of data for 4 partitions. In actual use, 4 logical The disk often cannot meet the demand; the hard disk extended partition we often call is just a pointer to the next partition. This pointer structure will form a one-way linked list. Therefore, once a problem occurs with the one-way linked list, the logical disk will be lost.

PQ Partition Magician Instructions for Use

1. Split partitions

Let’s first take a look at how to let Magician split a hard disk partition into two partitions.

After installing "pqmagic Magic Partition 11.0", a "PowerQuest PartitionMagic 4.0" will be added under the "Programs" item of the "Start" menu. This item "PartitionMagic 4.0" is the startup program of the magic partition.

Let’s first take a look at the appearance of the “Magic Partition”.

The top is the menu bar and shortcut toolbar, the middle one is the current hard disk partition status, and the five human-shaped icons below are the operation guides. I like to work best in the middle partition table.

Before proceeding with actual partitioning, I suggest you make a backup of your important data. If your hard drive itself already has bad sectors, or your Windows has "illegal operations" popping up from time to time. prompt, or occasionally there will be a "blue avalanche" on the screen, or you always have frequent power outages and tripping, you should make a backup of your data, because the "magician" is not able to deal with these emergencies, which will mean may have tragic consequences, so I declare in advance that we are not responsible if something goes wrong.

Steps to split a partition:

The first step is, if you have multiple hard drives installed in your computer, make sure that the hard drive you want to repartition is the one shown on the screen. In the drop-down menu above, you can select the hard drive to be operated.

As can be seen in the middle table, the current hard disk is divided into an area C, its capacity is 4G, and the FAT32 partition format is used. Right-click the cyan bar in area C, and a menu will appear that allows you to operate the partition. Select the first item "Resize/move..." and "Move or resize the partition."

A new window appears on the screen.

The cyan bar above represents the entire partition, which is the "maximum size"; the small dark green area represents the size of the used part or the minimum size of the partition, which is the "minimnu size".

For example, if we want to divide the hard disk in half into two partitions, move the mouse to the rightmost block of the cyan bar, and the mouse will turn into an arrow pointing left and right. Press the left mouse button and drag the small block to the left, approximately to the middle position. At this time, the capacity of the new partition is displayed in the "New Size" position below.

It's adjusted now.

PQ partition magician partition tutorial

1. Click My Computer, right-click the mouse, and select Manage Items

2. After opening, select the disk management item

3. Next, select the disk you want to split. Right-click the mouse and select Compress Volume. (This step is to free up divisible space)

4. Enter the amount of space you need to free up, and you can convert it. (1G=1024M) Example: If you want to add a 10G disk, enter 10240 in the compression step. Click Compress.

5. After the compression is completed, you will find that there is an extra green disk, and this part of the space is the new disk area. Right-click New Simple Volume.

6. Follow the wizard to install step by step. Select size-hard disk name-confirm whether to format

7. After the operation is completed, you will find that a new disk has been added

PQ Partition Magician FAQ

1. How to merge the space created by Hard Disk Partition Magician into the C drive?

Select the drive letter to be operated, here we choose drive d. Right-click the mouse, select Move/Resize Partition or the menu, then select c disk, right-click the mouse and select Adjust Partition. Add the amount reduced from other disks to the size in the adjusted partition, click Yes, and then exit Hard Disk Partition Magician. At this time, the system It will prompt that the current operation is suspended. Click Apply, and the system will prompt to restart. After the machine restarts, it will automatically execute the command to adjust the hard disk partition size. You need to wait for a while. After the system starts normally, everything will be done.

2. How does Hard Disk Partition Magician merge partitions?

Select partition C in the partition list on the main interface, and select the second Redistribute Free Space in the comic button below to enter the operation interface for redistributing free space on the hard disk. Click "Next" twice. This is Partition Magic's plan to automatically allocate space. The principle is that partitions with small capacity get free space first. If you are not satisfied with this allocation plan (of course not, the capacity of C drive has not changed at all!), press "Back" to return to the previous page, select "Advance" to enter the advanced options dialog box, where you need to change D and E Remove the corresponding "Allow wizard toresize partition" option of the two partitions - remove the small check mark and only retain the small check mark of the C partition, which means that only partition merging of the C drive is allowed. Repartition and make the C drive larger.

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PQ Partition Magician update log

1: Brand new interface, refreshing, simple and efficient

2: Performance is getting better and better