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Partition Wizard Outperforms Expectations
I can't help it. When I know something's free, I spend the entire review process waiting for the gotcha to appear. Happily, the gotcha never came with Partition Wizard Home Edition. This partitioning utility just created, deleted, moved, resized, and copied partitions with no fuss or bother--or error messages. It also recreated a master boot record, wiped a disk, and even searched for, found, and recovered a deleted partition with nary a failure.

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