PartitionGuru

While data recovery tools are available by dime a dozen, just investing in a regular run of the mill recovery application may not meet your needs. Ideally a recovery tool should give you the capacity to not just recover your data but manage your hard drive and other removable media. The PartitionGuru 4.5.0 application does just that and it comes loaded with a plethora of sophisticated options including capacity to manage RAID drives and even clone disks.

On launch the PartitionGuru 4.5.0 presents before you a classical style interface that includes myriad options. Some of the options are slightly challenging for a novice user given the extensive set of customizations that are displayed. However basic data recovery is very easy as you only need to select the drive and click on File Recovery option in the top pane. It essentially presents you two choices of either recovering the deleted files or initiating a whole partition recovery. When it comes to creating partitions it offers you the flexibility to choose the size and slice away partitions without compromising the data stored in them. Further you can hide a specific partition and rename them too. When it comes to finding out errors on partitions it does a very formidable job of verifying and recovering bad sectors. Incidentally a technically advanced user can directly edit a specific sector. It also comes with powerful options to manage virtual drives and you can use it to prep a drive for VMware. It gives a simple process to clone a drive either into a image file or onto another partition.

Overall the PartitionGuru 4.5.0 comes across as a rather potent tool with a multitude of well thought out features that earn it an appreciable score of four rating points. The application is likely to find many takers amongst IT admins and tech support teams.

PartitionGuru is a powerful tool for data recovery, partition manager and partition backup, for it provides lots of functions.
Partition Management - It can create format, resize, extend, backup, split, hide and clone partition, both MBR and GPT are supported;
Disk and partition conversion - Convert dynamic disk to basic, convert virtual disk format and convert MBR to GPT, convert primary partition to logical, etc.
File recovery - It can recover files deleted or emptied form recycle bin, recover files from damaged partition or disk and recover files by file type and supports file preview and file filter;
Partition recovery - It is the best partition recovery program in that it can recover files from damaged, corrupted and RAW partitions, search for lost partition and recover files from it, besides, it can fix partition table;
RAID recovery - It can reconstruct Virtual RAID and recover files from it, and all RAID types are supported;
Sector Edit - It can edit the sector data just as WinHex;
Backup and Restore - It can backup and restore partition including system partition, hard disk and partition table.
Bad Tracks - It can check and repair bad sectors for all storage devices; check hard disk S.M.A.R.T. information.
Delete files permanently - It can delete files permanently so that they can't be recovered by any data recovery software;
Virtual Disk - It supports virtual disks, including VMware, Virtual PC and Virtual Box;
Dos - It includes a dos version PartitionGuru with same interface function and operation;
PartitionGuru is compatible with all versions of Windows system, both 32 bit and 64 bit; support FAT12/FAT16/FAt32/exFAT/NTFS/EXT2/EXT3/EXT4