Simple task: creating a partition on a blank uninitialized hard drive

We'll perform this in a virtual machine environment to demonstrate that R-Drive Image startup version can work in virtual machines. Finally, as the most critical task, we'll copy an entire hard drive with a working Windows installation to another and larger drive in a way that the new installation will occupy the entire new had drive. Second, as a more complex task, we'll create another partition on the same drive, move it to the end of the drive, and extend the first partition. First, as a simple task, we'll create a partition on a completely blank hard drive, which even has not been initialized in Windows. The free trial period for R-Drive Image is one month.īelow, we'll discuss three examples of the work of the partition manager in R-Drive Image to show how easy it is to use the manager to perform the most common partition tasks. There's another great feature of this partition manager: being a part of R-Drive Image software, it works in its trial version without the usual restrictions typically imposed on demo/trial versions. The other features useful for non-Windows computers like support for various Apple and Linux volume managers are fully intact. The only exception is the lack of the built-in scheduler, tasks, scripts, and connecting images as virtual disks, although copying individual files from opened images is a good substitution for the latter.

Moreover, the startup version of R-Drive Image has almost the same features as its Windows counterpart.

Moreover, such disk manipulations can be combined with other common disk actions, for example: while an entire hard drive is being copied to another drive, its partitions can be extended and moved to another place on the drive, as it will be shown below in this article. It allows its user to create, resize, delete, and perform other manipulations with partitions (logical disks in Windows) in a clear and convenient way.

Starting from Version 7, R-Drive Image offers its customers another set of very useful disk utilities: a partition manager.

Hard drive manager