My experience with EaseUS Partition Master

[Computersmith64]

So - not specifically B4X related, but I thought I'd post this because of what I'm currently going through...

My main development machine is a Mac Mini running Bootcamp (so I have an OS X partition & a Windows 10 partition). It has a 1TB hard drive & when I originally set it up I thought that 200GB would be plenty for the Windows partition (I was intending to keep it "lean & clean" - yeah, right!) however lately I have been finding myself trolling through the drive, deleting anything I could do without just so I could free up some space.

Eventually, I came to the conclusion that I needed to extend the Windows partition so I booted into OS X & used the Disk Utility to shrink the OS X partition by 150GB, then booted Windows & tried to use Disk Manager to extend the Windows partition into my newly created free space. Of course, this wouldn't work because the Windows disk manager is pretty much useless...

So, I downloaded a "tool" called EaseUS Partition Master - which was mentioned in a few forums as being the answer to the shortcomings of the Windows disk manager & claims to have over 30,000,000 users worldwide.

I set it up to extend the partition, it rebooted by machine, extended the partition & started the process of copying the data into the new partition. All good it seemed, so I left it to it...

Several hours later, I came back to find that the machine had rebooted & was now in Windows recovery mode. At this point I wasn't too sure what was going on, so I selected the reboot option & held down the alt/option key to bring up Bootcamp so I could choose which partition to boot into. The only option I was presented with was Windows - which when selected went back into recovery mode.

To cut a long story short, I eventually accepted the fact that EaseUS Partition Master had trashed both my OS X & Windows partitions. Even worse, it had somehow made the OS X partition unrecognizable & changed the Windows partition from NTFS to Mac OS Extended.

I am now in the middle of a very long process of restoring my OS X partition from my Time Machine backup & then I will see if I can save the Windows partition or if I'll have to wipe it & start again. Fortunately I do have backups, but this is going to cost me a day or two in lost time...

- Colin.

 

[rboeck]

I have often used the included partition program in windows and extended some partitions. Why would it be useless? One thing i know, is, that he can only extend to a partition "right" of the current one...

 

[sorex]

and you forgot to back up your partitions first?

if you removed all windows update uninstallers, restore points etc you prolly gained several gigabytes to continue for several months.
or enable ntfs compression to gain space.

The only way I do partition extentions is in vmware, I don't trust it on normal systems.

 

[sorex]

@rboeck,

yeah, you can only extend the last drive partition on the disk if I recall right.

 

[Computersmith64]

and you forgot to back up your partitions first?

if you removed all windows update uninstallers, restore points etc you prolly gained several gigabytes to continue for several months.
or enable ntfs compression to gain space.

The only way I do partition extentions is in vmware, I don't trust it on normal systems.

Yeah I'm aware of things I can do to try to eke out some extra space (I'd already done most of them) - but in the end I decided it was better to increase the size of my Windows partition.

- Colin.

 

[Computersmith64]

I have often used the included partition program in windows and extended some partitions. Why would it be useless? One thing i know, is, that he can only extend to a partition "right" of the current one...

Just passing on my experience with it. There is clearly something wrong with it when it completely trashes 2 partitions without any warnings or errors.

- Colin.

 

[JakeBullet70]

Fortunately I do have backups, but this is going to cost me a day or two in lost time...

I recently (In July of this year) lost the partition information to a 12tb raid 5 array. (4 * 4tb WD NAS drives)
EaseUS Partition Master (I own a very old copy) and Windows server 2012 saw it as an un-formatted partition.

So... I bought this: http://www.partition-recovery.com/
I spent over 5 days on it but did recover 90% of the files.

disclaimer... And no, I do not work for any of the above mention companies. Just my experience. Or my 2 Kopec.

 

[BPak]

Have a Look at this web site. They have some very good tools for partition.

http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/index.htm

 

[Computersmith64]

Just to add to my stress, after spending the whole day yesterday reinstalling OS X, creating a Bootcamp partition, reinstalling Windows 10 on it, then restoring my backups & getting everything set up how I like it - I decided this morning to add a 30GB partition formatted as ex-FAT so that I can share files between my OS X & Windows partitions.

I had done this previously, so figured it should be straightforward. Went into Disk Utility in OS X & created the partition (took the 30GB from the OS X partition) & formatted it no worries - but when I went to boot into Windows, discovered that it was no longer bootable! Long story short (again), I tried everything I could find online to get that partition bootable to no avail. In the end I decided to trash it & recreate it via bootcamp - so got that done & then attempted to restore the system image I had created yesterday.

That failed because both times I created a recovery disc from my now working Windows 10 partition, I could not get the machine to boot from it (it could read the CD, but kept telling me that the disc wasn't bootable). In the end I had to restore my backup again & reinstall all the apps manually (not to mention get windows set up how I want it again).

I now need to buy a new DVD writer because the one I had didn't survive its high speed meeting with my office wall...

- Colin.

 

[JakeBullet70]

I now need to buy a new DVD writer because the one I had didn't survive its high speed meeting with my office wall...

OUCH!!!!!!