PartitionGuru is a partition management and data recovery program. In addition to traditional MBR partition table, it supports GUID partition table on GPT disks also.

In addition to basic partition management functions such as creating, deleting, hiding, formatting partitions, it also provides more powerful functions like lost partitions recovery, deleted or lost files recovery, partition backup, partition clone, disk clone, quick partition, integral size partition, correct and check partition table error, advanced file operation, etc.

It also supports VMware, VirtualBox and Virtual PC virtual disk files. Support IDE, SCSI, SATA drive and USB disk, memory card. Supports FAT12 / FAT16 / FAT32 / NTFS / EXT3 file systems.

More information, please refer to the manual.

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Recover lost partitions is one of the major function of PartitionGuru.

When a lost partition is found, all attributes of the partition include all files in it will be displayed immediately. You can check the size and the type of the partition and even you can browse and preview all files and folders to check whether the partition is just your lost partition.

Step by step - How to recover partitions using PartitionGuru

Recover deleted Files or recover files from formatted or inaccessible partition is another major function of PartitionGuru software.

In many cases, a partition may become inaccessible and all files in it are lost. For example, a partition may be accidentally formatted while the files have no backups, a partition may be destroyed by virus or some software... When you try to open it with Windows Explorer, Windows usually prompt you the partition must be formatted.

With PartitionGuru, In most cases the files and folders can be recovered. The recovered files will be listed as same as the "Windows explorer", can be browsed and previewed.

PartitionGuru can help you recover files from NTFS, and FAT32/FAT16/FAT12 file systems. And it also support RAID volume, USB Disk and memory card (such as the card for digital camera) which use these file system types.

PartitionGuru can also recover photos from memory cards. Restore your precious memories.

Step by step - How to recover files using PartitionGuru

PartitionGuru has powerful disk & partition management abilities, in addition to common functions such as creating, deleting, formatting, renaming and hiding partition, it provides more.

Quick Partition
This function is for quickly re-partitioning a hard drive and formatting all its partitions in one step. Just open the Quick Partition dialog by press F6 key and then click the "OK" button, the disk will be partitioned and formatted rapidly. Also called "One Step Partition".

Integral Size Partition
When you create a partition with a size like 10GB, 20GB or 100GB, it will be displayed as 9.99GB, 19.99GB or 99.99GB in the Windows Explorer. It looks like a little defective. The partitions created by PartitionGuru will be real integral partitions.

Backup Partition to Image File
Backup all available data of a partition include all its inner files to an image file. When the partition is damaged for any reasons, it can be restored from the image file.
Step by step - How to make partition image using partitionguru

Backup Partition Table
Although you can recover lost partitions by PartitionGuru most of time, if there is a backup copy of the partition table, you can restore it safely and easily. So it is a good idea to take a backup of the partition table.

Support GUID Partition Style
When the capacity of a disk is larger than 2TB, the disk must be managed by the GUID partition style. PartitionGuru fully support GUID partition style.

Using PartitionGuru, you can delete files permanently which make anyone can not restore it forever.

Using PartitionGuru, you can delete undeletable or locked files also.

Refer to the following link, you can learn more knowledge on "Delete file".

E-book - Delete file - Something you know and something you don't know.

Using PartitionGuru, you can make partition image file and restore it to a partition, just like famous Symantec Ghost.

Further more, PartitionGuru embed a dos version program. You can reboot the computer to PartitionGuru DOS version. All those make system backup & restore easily and quickly!

Step by step - How to backup & restore windows system like Symantec Ghost using PartitionGuru

Sometimes, boot from a USB flash disk can be very useful. For example, if the windows system is damaged and can not login, you must reinstall it. But if there are some important files in the "C" partition. What should you do? A rescue bootable USB flash disk can solve this problem easily.

It is very simple to make a rescue bootable USB flash disk by PartitionGuru. USB-ZIP, USB-HDD and USB-FDD are all supported.

Step by step - How to create rescue bootable USB flash disk using PartitionGuru

PartitionGuru support VMware virtual disk files(.vmdk file), Virtual PC disk file (".vhd" file), VirtualBox disk file (".vdi" file) and ".img", ".ima" partition image files.

You can operate a virtual disk same as a general hard drive. The supported functions include managing partitions and files in the virtual disk, recovering lost partitions, recovering lost files, etc.

Except drive letter operations, other operations supported on general disks are also supported on virtual disks. Therefore, PartitionGuru can do lost partition recovery or lost files recovery for the virtual disk while the virtual machine is not active.

Sometimes, the partition table may be damaged by various kinds of reasons, such as virus, careless operation... When this happened, partitions may be lost or inaccessible.

Using PartitionGuru, you can backup the partition table and restore it when damaged.

Step by step - Backup and restore master boot record (MBR)

Sometime, manage partition under DOS mode is very easily and quickly than windows mode. PartitionGuru embed a DOS version program. You can reboot the computer to the DOS version of PartitionGuru.

From the main menu of PartitionGuru, just select "File" -> "Reboot to PartitionGuru DOS version", the computer will reboot to DOS mode and PartitionGuru DOS version will executed automatically.