Thursday, March 3, 2011

Guidelines For Using Free Partition Software For Beginners While Trying To Extend Partition

By Vince Kasperick


As is understood, partition assistant finds use in managing the hard disk of our PC. We know it helps us to create, increase and resize partition and resize partition and executes some advanced partition jobs.

It must be firstly known that for a resize or extend drive to be conceivable, it is necessary to have a Virtual Hard Disk (VHD). This is a file format, and it contains everything, files, that you save in your physical hard drive. It is with help of it that you can also have several operating systems like Windows 7, Windows XP, Linux etc on a single computer. It provides the host machine an option to boot from mult-systems.

Having a VHD is especially a critical advantage to IT admin as they can achieve specific configurations that are pre built within a computer.

Also many people can exercise one machine, booting in from dissimilar Windows system, without any interference into each others' job. It also bring to better backup as virus infection can be undone.

At present, only Windows 7 Enterprise Edition and Server 2008 can allow physical computer to mount and create VHD file from its disk management snap-in. Once you have a VHD, then you can get started by using your free partition manager to adjust or extend partition.

Also at the very outset, one must be able to distinguish Partition Assistant from the disk management snap-in that you have in Windows. This disk manager does not live resize, shrink or expand partition features. Hence, there is need of 3rd party application program, the Partition Assistant.

It is the very user amicable software and once you run it, it will give you directions to the next step.

You need to keep in mind that the total data storage space of a computer's disc is divided into maximum four, and minimum one, primary partitions.

The primary partitions have a 16-byte entry code which constitutes Partition Table located in the master boot record.

Out of the four, only one can be an expand drive provider. An extend partition is nothing but a primary partition which has secondary partition(s). A hard disk cannot have more than one extend volume; though

This is all that you need to know before you download your own Partition Assistant or other download partition manager. Just keep in mind these small things, and get, set go!




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