

For these reasons alone, for maximum drive performance the OS, regardless of type should be placed in the first partition aproximatly 10% the size of the presumably large drive and the paging file moved to the outer edge of the partition with a decent disk managment tool, especially in vista which make heavy use of the paging file regardless of how much RAM you give it. The reason is twofold, one there are more sectors in the outer tracks yet each entire track is read or written in the same amount of time as the tracks nearer the center and two since more sectors exist per track in the outer tracks less mechanical seeking has to take place. With the latest edition, you can now migrate your entire system to a brand new hard drive, including full support for moving to a faster SSD.#21, You have a couple of factual errors in your statements, it is a fact that all magnetic drives that have a constant RPM will perfom significantly faster at the outside tracks. Support for dynamic disks opens up the number of uses for the program and support for 64-bit versions of Windows makes it ideal for business and enterprise environments. Partition Master can be run from CD, providing access to partitioning and recovery tools even if Windows cannot be started. Even if your drive has been formatted, or you have suffered a virus attack, a recovery wizard can be used to salvage data from your disk. Should you ever suffer from serious hard drive problems, the program can also be used to recover data.

A data copying wizard is on hand to help out with the task of copying data from one partition to another, one drive to another or creating drive backups. The software can be used to resize, move, split and merge partitions without the risk of losing data. Partitioning tools have come a very long since the days of complicated command line utilities and EASEUS Partition Master is one of the most advanced programs available.
