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Manage your hard drive partitions using Free Partition Wizard

Filed under Computer tricks, Featured, Free Softwares, Freeware, Windows Tricks by Bhavyesh on April 7, 2010 at 1:36 am {one comment}

Partition Wizard Home Edition is a free partition manager software designed by MT Solution Ltd. Partition manager supports 32/64 bit Windows Operating System including Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7. Home users can perform complicated partition operations by using this powerful yet free partition manager to manage their hard disk.

Functions include:

Support Windows 2000/XP/Vista/Windows7 (32 bit & 64 bit) operating system.
Support RAID.
Extend system partition to maximize computer performance.
Manage the hard disk for substantial performance increase.
Create , Delete and Format partitions with simple steps.
Disk Copy to protect or transfer data.
Support disk and partition size larger than 2 TB.
Convert partition format from FAT to NTFS.
Partition Copy: Copy the entire content of one hard disk to another.
Copy Disk Wizard: Copy the entire hard disk to another without having to reinstall windows.
Disk Map – Visually demonstrate your disk/partition configuration; preview the changes before applying.
Hide/unhide partition, set active partition, etc. – Change partition properties easily.
Explore FAT/NTFS partition.
Set partition as primary.
Set partition as logical.
Rebuild MBR.
Convert Dynamic Disk to Basic Disk.
Disk Surface Test.
Partition Surface Test.
Change Partition Serial Number.
Change Partition Type ID.

Download Partition Wizard Home Edition (Freeware) (6.8 MB)

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Synchronize all PCs in the home with few clicks

Filed under Computer tricks, Free Softwares, Freeware, Windows Tricks by Bhavyesh on April 6, 2010 at 12:29 am {one comment}

FreeFileSync is an open source tool that allows us to sync files and folders between 2 or more PCs that too with ease. If you need to keep your personal computer synchronized with the office computer, or if you want to keep your computer in sync with the laptop, FreeFileSync is an excellent tool for this because, in addition to many functions that it has,it has a completely simple and intuitive interface. The screen is divided into two panels, each showing all the necessary details about the files and folders on the end computers.

Main Features:

Compare files by size or date modified.
Support for long names and files larger than 4GB
Compatible with Linux systems symlinks.
It has filters to include or exclude files from a given selection.

FreeFileSync is a freeware and works on almost all recent Windows OSs.

Download FreeFileSync

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Access Linux partitions from Windows using Ext2fsd

Filed under Computer tricks, Featured, Free Softwares, Linux, Open Source, Windows 7 Tricks and Tips, Windows Tricks, Windows Vista Tricks and Tips, Windows XP Tricks and Tips by Bhavyesh on April 4, 2010 at 1:46 pm {3 comments}

If you are using dual boot to use Windows and Linux on the same machine then you must be knowing that Windows OS does not support the ext partitions. Fortunately for the users like us there is one great open source project which allows the users not only to read the data from ext partitions but also allows to write on it.

Ext2fsd is a driver for Windows NT/2K/XP which allows the user to access linux partitions by mapping it as logical drive in Windows. During installation you can choose whether you want to load the drives automatically every time Windows boots or you want to load them manually.

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