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Vancouver-based MiniTool Solution Ltd. has announced the immediate availability of MiniTool Partition Wizard 7.5 to customers. The version 7.5 covers significant core function optimizations and bug fixes.

“With over five million downloads worldwide, we are improving our partition manager software to become one of the most popular partition magic alternative software of the world,” says W. Ming, of MiniTool Solution Ltd.

New features of MiniTool Partition Wizard 7.5:

•     Fully support 4096-bytes-sector-based hard drive
•     Align all partitions or the assigned partition to optimize hard drive performance by 7-15%
•     Faster operating speed and higher security

Key features of MiniTool Partition Wizard 7.5:

•     Move/Resize Partition: Change your partition size without data loss nor reinstallation
•     Merge Partition: Merge adjacent partitions without data loss
•     Hot Extending: Extend NTFS Windows system partition without reboot
•     Partition Recovery: Restore partition after accidental deletion or partition table damage
•     Convert Dynamic Disk to Basic Disk without data loss
•     Partition copy, Disk copy to easy backup and transfer your data
•     Create Partition, Delete Partition, Format Partition
•     Support Simple, Spanned, Striped, Mirrored and RAID-5 volume.
•     Move/Resize dynamic disk volume without data loss.
•     Create, delete and format dynamic volume.

A transition from the legacy 512-byte sector to 4096-byte sector is an inevitable trend with hard drive manufacturers having started working on and shipping 4096 bytes sector (as 4K Advanced Format) new hard drives years ago. This new 4K Advanced Format will give users a much more efficient approach to higher areal densities, larger hard drive capacity and heftier error correction competence.  Aligning Partition, particularly for 4096-byte-sector-based hard drive, will maximally help manage unaligned partition conditions and avoid negative impacts brought by the sector size transition.

MiniTool Partition Wizard Version 7.5 Home Edition still remains free for home users. Other existing customers can contact support (at) minitool (dot) ca for upgrade assistance.

Licensing Information:

• Partition Wizard Free Home Edition: Absolutely free for regular home users.
• Partition Wizard Professional Edition: Supports merge partition, convert dynamic to basic and dynamic disk

• Partition Wizard Server Edition: Support Windows Server 2003, 2008, 2008R2 and Small Business Server.

• Partition Wizard Enterprise Edition: Commercial enterprise solution.
• Partition Wizard Technician Edition: Designed for IT consulting firms and individuals.