Description:
Whether you need to repartition your hard drive or prep a new drive, V Communications Partition Commander makes drive maintenance a point-and-click affair, offering automated drive partitioning and a host of functions not available through most operating systems. Partition Commander 6 adds a batch of new features, including impressive support for Windows 2000, Windows Me, and Linux. Following the tradition of its predecessors, the newest Partition Commander is a robust application--a virtual Swiss Army knife of hard drive maintenance. Various features combine to form one of the most powerful hard drive tools available anywhere. Even the non-technical crowd will get almost as much out of Partition Commander as hard-core gurus, thanks to a platoon of nifty wizards that cover actions such as reclaiming wasted hard drive space and adding a second operating system to a PC. Those are just a couple of Partition Commander's talents. Partition Commander allows users to go far beyond the simplistic drive prep procedures included with most operating systems, adeptly performing tasks that the others don't even acknowledge as possible. It can, for example, resize FAT16/32, NTFS, and Linux partitions without disrupting the data already stored on them, add or remove partitions on working hard drives, and convert file systems from FAT16 to FAT32, or FAT16/32 to NTFS--and, unlike Windows utilities, vice versa. Although it's extremely rare for Partition Commander to cause data loss while working its magic (even through user error), users are cautioned to back up critical data before altering partitions. Nevertheless, V Communications added BackStep Wizard, which keeps track of drive changes and allows users to undo certain actions. Unfortunately, this feature is limited by the very nature of drive partitioning: it can't undo the most destructive actions like deleting an entire partition. Partition Commander 6 includes System Commander Personal Edition, a menu-driven interface that simplifies booting computers with two or more operating systems. The one-two punch of Partition Commander, used to add a second OS, and V Communications System Commander, used to access it, demystifies multi-boot configurations to the point where nearly anyone can enjoy them. A must-have for technophiles and an excellent tool for anyone faced with hard drive preparation, Partition Commander would be a bargain at double its price. --Joel Durham Jr.
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