Free partition software

• A large quantity of free partition software is available on market with distinctive functions. Some of them merely directs at one certain partition format, such as NTFS or FAT32. Do we have some free yet powerful partition software? Fortunately, now we have one - MiniTool Partition Wizard.
  
  Partition formats:
  The following are examples of two partition fomats:
  
  FAT12
  The initial version of FAT is now referred to as FAT12. Designed as a file system for floppy disks, it limited cluster addresses to 12-bit values, which not only limited the cluster count to 4078, but made FAT manipulation tricky with the PC's 8-bit and 16-bit registers. (Under Linux, FAT12 is limited to 4084 clusters.) The disk's size is stored as a 16-bit count of sectors, which limited the size to 32 MB. FAT12 was used by several manufacturers with different physical formats, but a typical floppy disk at the time was 5.25-inch, single-sided, 40 tracks, with 8 sectors per track, resulting in a capacity of 160 KB for both the system areas and files. The FAT12 limitations exceeded this capacity by a factor of ten or more.
  
  FAT16
  In 1984, IBM released the PC AT, which featured a 20 MB hard disk. Microsoft introduced MS-DOS 3.0 in parallel. (The earlier PC XT was the first PC with a hard drive from IBM, and MS-DOS 2.0 supported that hard drive with FAT12.) Cluster addresses were increased to 16-bit, allowing for up to 65,517 clusters per volume, and consequently much greater file system sizes, at least in theory. However, the maximum possible number of sectors and the maximum (partition, rather than disk) size of 32 MB did not change. Therefore, although technically already "FAT16", this format was not what today is commonly understood as FAT16. With the initial implementation of FAT16 not actually providing for larger partition sizes than FAT12, the early benefit of FAT16 was to enable the use of smaller clusters, making disk usage more efficient, particularly for files several hundred bytes in size, which were far more common at the time. Also, the introduction of FAT16 actually did bring an increase in the maximum partition size under MS-DOS, since the implementation of FAT12 for hard disks in MS-DOS 2.0 was limited to 15 MB. (That is, the initial FAT16 did not support larger drives than FAT12, but MS-DOS 3.0 using FAT16 did support larger drives than MS-DOS 2.0 using FAT12, by a factor of two.)
  
  Since disk partition is vital for the normal operation of computer, user should employ appropriate partition manger to manage it orderly and efficiently. Developed by MiniTool Solution Ltd., MiniTool Partition Wizard should be the very free partition software for user to create partition, delete partition, format partition, wipe partition, merge partition, resize partition, copy partition, partition manager, convert file system, etc. For home and personal user, the free partition software MiniTool Partition Wizard is totally free of charge.
  
  User would come to above interface after running MiniTool Partition Wizard Server Edition where all disk partitions are displayed. Besides, a row of buttons is available in the red zone at the upper part of this interface with diverse functions: "Move/Resize" is for resizing partition and moving partition location: "Merge" is for merging different partitions; "Delete", namely for deleting partition; "Format" is to format partition; "Copy" is to copy partition; "Label" is to rename partition and "Properties" could demonstrate partition information and content.
  
  User could employ different functions buttons to diverse disk management needs. Above is merely a brief introduction to the fre partition software MiniTool Partition Wizard Server Edition, for more detailed information, please go to the official website http://www.partitionwizard.com.
  
  
  
  
  

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