2013年1月29日星期二

Removing Disk Partition will Clean All the Data?

Removing the disk partition will take away easy access to the drive, but it's not really destroyed.

The danger in just removing partitions is that any semi-tech-savvy individual could easily recover the entire contents of the drive, with very basic data recovery software.

If you want to avoid your time-consuming disk cleaning, you could wack the exposed circuit board with a hammer a couple times (the method I use). 

At least with that kind of damage, any would-be 'dumpster diver' would need substantial technical skills (and probably a class 100 cleanroom, or around $2000 cash for a professional recovery from a facility, such as Knoll-Ontrack or DriveSavers) to recover the data.

HOWEVER, if you are responsible for "data security" in your line of work, and your work is sensitive or interesting enough for outside entities to take an 'active interest' in the contents of your trashed drives, then you should probably be physically opening the drives, and smashing the platters..takes about 5 mins per drive. Data recovery from this type of destruction requires an electron microscope, which is exactly what it would take to recover data from a high-end software-based 'drive cleaning'/data shredder' app.

If you are not a expert in computer, you can use a disk management software to help you slove all your questions: http://www.disk-partition.com/partition-software.html. Aomei Partition Assistant have different edtition for different users, including Home, Pro, Server, Technique. 

2013年1月27日星期日

How to Make a Mirror Image in Other Disk Partition

1. You would need to connect another Hdd and then Mirror it to this you can not mirror to the same drive, has to be same size or larger, cause if it fails you have nothing, a minimum for a server would be 1 drive mirrored.

2. Also you could install a second os in case of any issue of a software fault. You would need to configure it as if it was running so if there is a fault you reboot and keep going.

3. Look up about RAID configuration can be done with 3 drives hardware or software.I would possibly go with 3 drives and a raid controller giving a hardware solution, you can then portion a small amount for second os.

Otherwise, you can do disk mirror by automatic disk management tool. Aomei Partition Assistant is a good choice:

Download Aomei Partition Assistanthttp://www.disk-partition.com/partition-software.html
Here you can also learn more about disk management: http://www.disk-partition.com/tutorial.html




2013年1月24日星期四

The Benefits of Disk Partitions


There are many advantages to do disk partitions:

1. Separation of the operating system (OS) and program files from user files. This allows image backups (or clones) to be made of only the operating system and installed software.

2. Having cache and log files separate from other files. These can change size dynamically and rapidly, potentially making a file system full.

3. Use of multi-boot setups, which allow users to have more than one operating system on a single computer. For example, one could install Linux, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows or others on different partitions of the same hard disk and have a choice of booting into any compatible operating system at power-up.

4. Raising overall computer performance on systems where smaller file systems are more efficient. For instance, large hard drives with only one NTFS file system typically have a very large sequentially accessed Master File Table (MFT) and it generally takes more time to read this MFT than the smaller MFTs of smaller partitions.

Actually, more benefits can acquire from disk partition. Aomei Partition Assistant software is a powerful disk management software:


You can do:
1. Resize/Move Partition
2. Merge Partitions
3. Split Partition
4. Allocate Free Space
5. Create/Delete/Format Partition
6. Copy Disk/Partition
7. Wipe Disk/Partition

2013年1月18日星期五

How to Change My a Partition's Size Before Running Windows


Windows 7 and Vista include a built-in functionality in Disk Management to shrink and expand partitions. No more 3rd party utilities needed!


To get to this utility, open up Control Panel, and type in partition into the search box. you’ll immediately see the link show up. In the Disk Management screen, just right-click on the partition that you want to shrink, and select “Shrink Volume” from the menu.In the Shrink dialog, you will want to enter the amount you want to shrink by, not the new size. For example, if you want to shrink your 50gb partition by roughly 10gb so that it will now be roughly 40gb, enter 10000 into the box. In the Disk Management screen, just right-click on the partition that you want to shrink, and select “Extend Volume” from the menu. On this screen, you can specify the amount that you want to increase the partition by. In this case, I’m going to extend it back to the roughly 50GB size that it was before.

Note that the extend partition feature only works with contiguous space.

However, you only can do some simple changes to your windows disk, if you want to do some advanced changes such clone disk, and etc, you still need to have a special disk management software such as Aomei Partition Assistant Software, which have different edition for users. Learn more from http://www.disk-partition.com/partition-software.html


2013年1月8日星期二

How to do hard disk partition without formatting process for window 7 premium

You can do as followings:

1) ri8 click on my computer.

2)go to manage.

3)go to drives nd hardisk.

4)if u have nly 1 drive c thn ri8 click on it say shrink volume.

5) keep c drive upto 40gb and rest will be available as free space.

6) thn click on free space and say make new volume. Select suitable size of drive.
 
7) follow same procedure for creating multiple drives IMP-MAKE SURE C DRIVE IS 40GB.

But you also can download a partition manager tool from http://www.disk-partition.com

2012年12月26日星期三

How to increase the size of my disc partition without deleting current one

You have, say, a 500 GB drive.
You make two partitions, one is 200 GB, the other is 300 GB.
Now what you want is two partitions of 300 GB each.

Where do you think you can get that extra 100 GB?????????
Pull a rabbit out of a hat?????

You order a large pizza delivered for three people. Just right. Then another couple of people arrive. Come in! Nice to see you! Hold on while I expand this pizza. Hmmm... maybe if I just cut it differently it will get bigger.

EDIT:
To the idea of making two partitions of 300 GB each from a 500 GB drive: Not possible.
To the idea of putting Mac formatted space into NTFS formatted space: Not possible.
The two types of space you can add to NTFS space are NTFS space and unformatted space. You cannot hide one file system inside another.
Solution: Buy an external drive, backup the Windows side, delete that partition, add the unformatted space to the Mac partition, and use Boot Camp Assistant again.

EDIT again:
I wish these PC geeks would go away. You can use partition software to add free space to a Boot Camp partition. The reason you must use Boot Camp to create the partition is that a Mac cannot boot to a standard MBR partition. Boot Camp makes a hybrid partition that Easeus cannot understand. Give up and do it like I suggest using a backup.

2012年12月25日星期二

What are the benefits of Hard Disk Partitions?


Disk partitioning is the act of dividing a hard disk drive into multiple logical storage units referred to as partitions, to treat one physical disk drive as if it were multiple disks. Partitions are also termed "slices" for operating systems based on BSD and Solaris. A partition editor software program can be used to create, resize, delete, and manipulate these partitions on the hard disk.

Benefits of multiple partitions
Creating more than one partition has the following advantages:
Separation of the operating system (OS) and program files from user files. This allows image backups (or clones) to be made of only the operating system and installed software.
Having an area for operating system virtual memory swapping/paging.
Keeping frequently used programs and data near each other.
Having cache and log files separate from other files. These can change size dynamically and rapidly, potentially making a file system full.
Use of multi-boot setups, which allow users to have more than one operating system on a single computer. For example, one could install Linux, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows or others on different partitions of the same hard disk and have a choice of booting into any compatible operating system at power-up.
Protecting or isolating files, to make it easier to recover a corrupted file system or operating system installation. If one partition is corrupted, none of the other file systems are affected, and the drive's data may still be salvageable. Having a separate partition for read-only data also reduces the chances of the file system on this partition becoming corrupted.
Raising overall computer performance on systems where smaller file systems are more efficient. For instance, large hard drives with only one NTFS file system typically have a very large sequentially accessed Master File Table (MFT) and it generally takes more time to read this MFT than the smaller MFTs of smaller partitions.
"Short Stroking", which aims to minimize performance-eating head repositioning delays by reducing the number of tracks used per hard drive.[1] The basic idea is that you make one partition approx. 20-25% of the total size of the drive. This partition is expected to: occupy the outer tracks of the hard drive, and offer more than double the throughput — less than half the access time. If you limit capacity with short stroking, the minimum throughput stays much closer to the maximum.

It will help you more if you own a disk partition management software.