Microsoft offers basic tools, which allow you to partition or format your hard drive to use with Microsoft Windows operating system. Such utilities include Fdisk that creates, deletes hard drive partitions, and format hard drive, which enables you to make the hard drive ready to be used. These tools are useful, but they are quite risky. If you apply on a Windows hard drive that contains critical data, you may come across partition loss. At this point, you need to go for Partition Recovery to extract lost partitions from Windows drive.

The Fdisk utility enables a general user to do basic operations on a Windows hard drive, but it is not useful to perform advanced functions on the drive. If you are an advanced users or deal with various system, you can quickly identify that this utility is inadequate for performing several operations that you want and need to do.

In order to meet these requirements, various software vendors offer third-party tools to manage your hard drive partitions. They enable you to perform advanced operations on the hard drive, which can not be done using the Fdisk tool. In addition to the general hard drive partitions such as formatting and partitioning Windows hard drives, and assigning labels, partitions management tools generally include the below features:

· Safe Partition Manipulation- Using these tools, you can shrink, move, or expand Windows partitions without losing your data stored on them.

· Partition Copying- These applications enable you to copy the partition from one drive to another. This feature is quite useful to upgrade your system.

· Partition Conversion- If you are using FAT32, you can change the file system of your partitions to other versions of FAT or NTFS.

· Cluster Resizing- Using these partition management tools, you can modify cluster size of Windows hard drive partitions.

Although, these utilities claim to be completely safe while resizing hard drive partitions or repartitioning the hard drive, interruption of such processes may cause partition loss. In such situations, you need to go for Partition Recovery Software to extract lost hard drive partitions.

These Windows Partition Recovery applications use advanced scanning techniques to systematically scan Windows hard drive to successfully recover lost partitions. With simple and self-descriptive user interface, the applications enable you to have easy Partition Recovery on your own.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is the best ever made application for the absolute recovery of Windows hard drive partitions. It is designed for Windows 7, Vista, 2003, XP, and 2000. The software recovers FAT16, FAT32, VFAT, NTFS, and NTFS5 file system partitions.

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