There cannot be countless times you want to reorganize the partitions on your hard drive, but when you do, you actually want expert software. Partition Commander, initially a producer of VCom but currently rebadged below the Avanquest label, is faithfully that application.

To attempt to build what is a series of fairly geeky actions more available, the innovative application has a set of Wizards for responsibilities similar to generating as well as altering presented partitions. As long as you know enough regarding the arrangement of a hard drive to realise you can make more than one partition with logical drive on a single physical disk, you ought to be capable to work your way through the Wizards simply enough.

If you wish to make use of the more highly developed interface, this moreover is obviously laid out. In various places, for example when assigning partition sizes, it would be helpful to be competent to enter exact numbers rather than used up a slider which doesn't work in actual time, but overall there are only some issues.

The application also has an employ on a Mac running OS X with Boot Camp. Even though the program doesn't run below OS X, it can be run in a Windows partition on a Mac as well as from there it can be used to alter the comparative sizes of the two partitions.

Even if we have reached edition 11 of this software, the major file mechanisms have been in place for a while. Avanquest sign the arrival of Windows 7 compatibility, in equally 32-bit as well as 64-bit versions, but slight has changed in the file arrangement as Vista or else to be sure XP, so there can't have been much that wanted to be changed. While Partition Commander 11 is a helpful utility on the few occasions you want to reorganize a hard drive, it's not liable to be frequently used, which makes it look a bit expensive.

To increase its general value, it actually ought to be sold with a three-machine license, like most Internet Security suites as well as Avanquest own AutoSave 2 backup program, a implement which will be used on a daily basis. A single-PC license for that outstanding real-time back-up utility is built-in on the Partition Commander 11 CD.

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Verdict:

This is an adaptable partitioning application, with the added benefits of whole disk backup and handling Boot Camp partitions on a Macintosh. Generate, Erase, copying as well as merging partitions are all trouble-free to achieve, moreover using the Wizards or the major editing screen. All that's wanted at this time is a three-machine license included in the cost.