MiniTool Partition Wizard Server
- Convert NTFS to FAT.
- Copy Dynamic disk volume.
- GPT Disk and MBR Disk interconversion.
- Copy UEFI boot disk.
- Convert GPT-style Dynamic Disk to Basic.
- Move Boot/System volume for Dynamic Disk.
MiniTool Partition Wizard Help
Getting Started
Using MiniTool Partition Wizard
- MiniTool Partition Wizard Basic
- General
- Menu Of View
- Disk Operations
- Align All Partitions
- Copy Disk
- Delete All Partitions
- Rebuild MBR
- Initialize to MBR Disk
- Initialize to GPT Disk
- Partition Recovery
- Wipe Disk
- Disk Properties
- Convert Dynamic Disk to Basic Disk
- Convert MBR Disk to GPT Disk
- Convert GPT Disk to MBR Disk
- Surface Test
- Partition Operations
- Split Partition
- Extend Partition
- Align Partition
- Move/Resize Partition
- Merge Partition
- Copy Partition
- Explore Partition
- Create Partition
- Delete Partition
- Format Partition
- Label Partition
- Change Letter
- Set Active/Inactive
- Hide/Unhide Partition
- Check File System
- Convert FAT to NTFS
- Convert NTFS to FAT
- Wipe Partition
- Partition Properties
- Set Partition as Primary
- Set Partition as Logical
- Surface Test
- Change Partition Serial Number
- Change Partition Type ID
- Change Cluster Size
- Dynamic Disk
- Create Volume
- Delete Volume
- Format Volume
- Move/Resize Volume
- Wipe Volume
- Explore Volume
- Check File System
- Change Volume Label
- Change Volume Letter
- Change Volume Cluster Size
- Volume Properties
- Wizard
- Technical Support
What is Advanced Format?
Advanced Format, a generic term, involves those sector formats employed for data storage on hard drives with more than 512-520 bytes per sector. Many consider Advanced Format a milestone technology in the evolutionary course of hard drive storage.
4K Advanced Format
With the desperate need for delivering higher capacity points and improving Error Correction Capability, innovative and sensitive hard drive manufacturers recognized it had become urgent for them to survive competition by developing large sector sizes. During 2000 to 2009, storage media capacities increased lukewarmly by 44% every year on average. This situation, however, fell far behind what is really needed by users and drastic innovation is required in magnetic recording system technology. Hard drive manufactures, instead, lift the data surface area efficiency by 5% to 13% and increase the Error Correction Capability by altering the length of data field and using 4096-byte sectors (4K) Advanced Format.
4K Advanced Format
With the desperate need for delivering higher capacity points and improving Error Correction Capability, innovative and sensitive hard drive manufacturers recognized it had become urgent for them to survive competition by developing large sector sizes. During 2000 to 2009, storage media capacities increased lukewarmly by 44% every year on average. This situation, however, fell far behind what is really needed by users and drastic innovation is required in magnetic recording system technology. Hard drive manufactures, instead, lift the data surface area efficiency by 5% to 13% and increase the Error Correction Capability by altering the length of data field and using 4096-byte sectors (4K) Advanced Format.
