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DiskGenius

DiskGenius

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  • Latest Version

    DiskGenius 5.60 LATEST

  • Review by

    Michael Reynolds

  • Operating System

    Windows XP / Vista / Windows 7 / Windows 8 / Windows 10 / Windows 11

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  • Author / Product

    Eassos Ltd. / External Link

  • Filename

    DGEngSetup5601565.exe

  • MD5 Checksum

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DiskGenius (formerly PartitionGuru) will recover your files in different data loss situations and get you out of trouble. DiskGenius is a full-featured partition manager, which is designed to optimize disk usage for Windows users. It allows you to resize, extend, split, create, delete, format, hides, copy, and erase partition to maximize disk space use. Create a system image backup for current Windows with simple clicks to keep the operating system under protection!

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Safely and easily change the existing partition size or divide a partition into two smaller ones without losing any data. One-click partition a hard drive. It's very convenient to partition a new hard drive or repartition disk that contains partitions already. Permanently erase existing and deleted data in a partition so that files cannot be recovered by any method well protecting sensitive data. Disk Genius can help you create and format a partition with the desired filesystem format. It supports NTFS, exFAT, FAT32, FAT16, FAT12, EXT2, EXT3, and EXT4 file systems. Create a WinPE bootable disk and you can manage disk partition when a system crashes or there is no operating system on your computer.

DiskGenius provides an all-in-one partition backup solution to fully protect your data against any potential risks.

Image Partition
Efficiently back up everything on partition into one compressed file via several clicks, so that you can restore data from the image file when data loss or disaster occurs.

Clone Partition
Copy all data from one partition to another without interrupting any running programs, assuring you a copy 100% identical to the original drive.

Browse image files
Browse and retrieve files in the image file without restoring partition, and copy desired files/folders to a target location.

Supported file systems
Support backing up partitions formatted as NTFS, exFAT, FAT32, FAT16, FAT12, Ext2, Ext3 and Ext4.

Features and Highlights
  • Provide basic partition operation include create a new partition, delete partition, hide partition. You can specify the detail parameters of partitions.
  • Support many types of fixed disks such as IDE, SCSI, and SATA, etc. It also supports USB flash Disk, USB hard disk, memory card.
  • Support the FAT12/FAT16/FAT32/NTFS file system.
  • Can read files on the EXT2/EXT3 file system. Support Linux Logical Volume Management (LVM2).
  • Support the GUID partition table style. Support GPT disks.
  • Can quickly format FAT12/FAT16/FAT32/NTFS partitions. You can specify cluster size or select the option to compress the NTFS partition while formatting.
  • Can browse any files in any supported partitions including hidden partitions, and also including the files that can not be accessed in the normal way. Even you can forcibly delete the files in supported partitions.
  • Support assign or remove drive letters.
  • Support deleted files recovery and recover files from formatted or inaccessible FAT12/FAT16/FAT32/NTFS partitions.
  • Support lost partitions recovery (rebuild partition table). During the recovery operation, you can immediately see the files in the lost partitions. This is the best way to determine whether the partition found by Disk Genius is just you are looking for. Even you can recover lost files from the partition while the partition table is not saved to disk.
  • Can backup partition table to a file or restore it from the file.
  • Can backup whole partition to image file and restore partition from image file.
  • Support copying partitions. Provide three copying modes include "Copy all sectors", "Copy all valid sectors" and "Copy all files".
  • Support copying disks. Also, provide three copying modes like partitions copying.
  • Support VMWare virtual disk file (".vmdk" file). Operate it like ordinary disks.
  • Can copy files (from or to the virtual disk), recover lost files from the virtual disk file while the VMWare virtual machine is not running.
  • Support ".img", ".ima" image file format.
  • Support make USB-FDD and USB-ZIP mode bootable disk.
Note: Limited functionality in the demo version.

  • DiskGenius 5.60 Screenshots

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    DiskGenius 5.60 Screenshot 1
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What's new in this version:

New:
- The "Search for Lost Partitions" feature provides "Automatic" and "Advanced" modes to improve operational convenience
- The "Construct Virtual RAID" feature adds support for RAID6, RAID1, and RAID10, improves the support for RAID5, and enhances the ability to read disks with bad sectors

Improved:
- Supports reading Storage Spaces in RAID6 format, including reading after one disk is damaged
- Supports copying EFS-encrypted files in NTFS, FAT32, exFAT, and ReFS file systems
- EFS-encrypted files are supported when recovering data from FAT32 and exFAT partitions
- Supports encryption attributes of folders in FAT32 and exFAT file systems
- The file preview feature supports both thumbnail and large image previews for encrypted files
- Supports displaying ISO and UDF optical disk devices
- The "File Recovery" feature and the "Load Current Partition Intelligently" feature improve the support for Recycle Bin, restoring files in the Recycle Bin to their original path
- Improves the parsing of ReFS file system and supports ReFS 3.14
- The feature that displays the cluster list for file data usage improves the support for ReFS file system
- The partition table backup and restore feature improves the support for BitLocker encrypted partitions
- Improves the support for ISO and UDF file systems
- Improves the support for Ext4 file systems
- Improves the "Recover Files By Type" feature (directly output data method), you can retry when writing errors occur, and create categorized folders during exporting data
- Optimizes the display of the dialog box for viewing Storage Pool information
- Optimizes the search feature for the Sector Editor
- Improves the accuracy of recovering MP4 and ZIP formats by type
- Optimizes data recovery effects for FAT32 and exFAT partitions
- Optimizes data recovery effects for EXT4 partitions
- When force deleting files in the system partition or the partition where the software is located, the software can restart into WinPE to execute the operation
- When intelligently loading BitLocker partitions, the software supports partially encrypted BitLocker partitions
- The file copy options are displayed first when copying files to facilitate automatic handling encountered problems
- When backing up a partition to an image file on a network disk, the image file is no longer split by 2GB
- When setting the image file path for the disk backup or partition backup feature, a default file name is automatically set for the image file

Fixed:
- Fixed the issue that partition resizing, backup, and restoration operations couldn't be correctly performed on FAT32 and exFAT partitions containing EFS encrypted files
- Fixed the issue that the Go To Sector feature sometimes did not display the option to jump by cluster number
- Fixed the issue that errors occurred when reading files larger than 4GB on exFAT partitions
- Fixed the issue that the thumbnail preview might not display when frequently switching files
- Fixed the issue that partitions on MBR disks larger than 2TB couldn't be resized
- Fixed the issue that the destination disk displayed incorrectly after cloning LVM disks
- Fixed the issue that the size of encrypted files on FAT32 and exFAT32 partitions was not displayed accurately
- Fixed that issue that the partition diagram wat not updated after restoring a partition from an image file
- Fixed that issue that in rare cases Office documents might not open after being copied out
- Adds the Danish language pack