For data storage and data backup demands, an increasing number of users begin to use external hard drive. External hard drive doesn’t differ sharply from fixed hard disk on computer in essence and it can be connected to different computer expediently and is densely applied on every business thanks to its portability and mobility. As is known to all, external storage device is in an diversifying trend, such as USB flash drive, CD and all kinds of memory cards. For those external storage devices, we can hardly partition them like an computer hard disk and just usually cram various types of data on them. Fortunately, the emergence of external hard drive resolved this problem and user can employ MiniTool Partition Wizard to perform partition management on external hard drive like on a hard disk. For external hard drive, partition can not only help us manage data in order, but offers other excellent performances.
Partitioining lifts external hard drive performance
It is known to all that we can store different kinds of data on different partition after partitioning external hard drive. If we randomly store these data on external hard drive, data search speed as well as operating system efficiency is likely to be impaired. Suppose that we classify data and store them on certain partition, it will be much convenient for us to search desired files and improve operating system working efficiency. In addition, we can assign partition permission after partitioning external hard drive to allow users of different permissions perform corresponding operations, effectively resist illegal operations and reduce damage rendered by virus attack to only on target partition rather than entire disk. All these are overridingly vital for using external hard drive on different computer. Moreover, partitioning external hard drive also improves disk space utilization and can create images. Thus we can safely come to a conclusion that partitioning external hard drive can greatly improve external hard drive performance and give full play to its performance.
The best partition magic choice - MiniTool Partition Wizard
To partition external hard drive, MiniTool Partition Wizard, the best partition magic option, is indispensable. This partition magic provides powerful functions, not only aiding user in smoothly finishing partitioning external hard drive and giving strong support to future partition management. As mentioned before, external hard drive shares similarity with fixed hard disk in essence. Likewise, partitioning external hard drive with MiniTool Partition Wizard is the same with fixed hard disk. So here is a demo on partitioning hard disk with this partition magic:
A free edition of MiniTool Partition Wizard is available for personal and home users at http://www.partitionwizard.com. For Windows XP user, you should just install this partition magic on hard disk and then you can partition external hard drive.
First, run MiniTool Partition Wizard to enter the main interface:
Select the unallocated space and click "Create" at toolbar.
This is the interface for resizing partition where we can still set partition properties such as Partition Label, File System, Cluster Size and Partition size. After setting, click "OK".
Backing to main interface, we can notice all settings made previous are presented in this preview interface. To genuinely realize these setting, click "Apply" at the top left toolbar.
Creating partition with MiniTool Partition Wizard is really easy as long as user knows basic computer operations. Apart from creating partition, MiniTool Partition Wizard still offers a series of partition management operations including copy partition, merge partitions and wipe partition, etc. With this partition magic, your external hard drive management will be an no-brainer.