Partition Logic:Disk Partitioning and Data Management Tool

Jul 13, 2010 by Shivendu Madhava

Partition Logic is a free hard disk partitioning and data management tool. It can mirror entire hard disks to another as in Norton Ghost, and it can manipulate partitions—create, delete, format, etc.

Partition Logic boots from a CD or floppy and runs as a standalone system, independent of the regular operating system.Therefore, it is very light (in terms of size) and supports most basic PC hardware without the need for any additional work or configuration.It has certain hardware limitations (like no support for SATA hard disks), which are promised to be rectified in future updates.

Installation

Partition Logic comes as a self-contained CD image with its own operating system (Visopsys) included on the disc. It is not installed as aWindows/Mac/Linux program. It is written to a blank CD from which your computer can be booted to perform the desired operation.

Partition Logic is distributed as a compressed Zip file. The Zip file contains just the CD image, with the .iso file extension. The installation process consists of unzipping the ISO file and burning it to a CD.However, the burning application must typically be instructed to burn from a disc image. It does not burn like a regular data disc.

How to Use It

The menu bar contains three menus:File, Disk, and Partition. Operating around is fairly simple, since the mostused commands are in the form of action buttons. The commands under the Disk menu are not found as action buttons.

The disk list shows the physical hard disks detected on the system, and displays the size and other details of each. Clicking on a disk selects it, and it will subsequently change to show the partitions on the new disk. The partition list is a clickable list of partitions on the current disk. In order to do an operation on a partition or empty space, it must first be selected.

Among the action buttons (that is, the commands), there are two that are very interesting:

1. Undo—This is used to discard any pending changes that have not been committed to disk using the write changes function. Examples of the various operations that can be undone are partition creation and deletion, setting or un-setting the active partition, and hiding or un-hiding a partition.

2. Write Changes—The write changes function is used to commit any pending changes to the disk.

Carrying out operations in Partition Logic is fairly simple. For example, to make a new partition, you use the Create function. The user must first select some empty space in either the partition diagram or the partition list. Clicking this button or menu item raises a dialog window to prompt the user for information (location, size, etc.) about the partition to be created. No changes are made on disk until the user commits them using the Write Changes button.

Link:http://partitionlogic.org.uk