DiskGenius 5.6.0.1565

DiskGenius is a full-featured partition manager, which is designed to optimize disk usage for Windows users. It will efficiently help you recover lost data, resize/split partition, backup files, edit hex data, check bad sectors, manage virtual disks, erase data, etc.. Create a system image backup for current Windows with simple clicks to keep the operating system under protection.

DiskGenius key features:

• Partition Management - It can create format, resize, extend, backup, split, hide and clone partition, both MBR and GPT are supported.
• Disk and partition conversion - Convert dynamic disk to basic, convert virtual disk format and convert MBR to GPT, convert primary partition to logical.
• File recovery - It can recover files deleted or emptied form recycle bin, recover files from damaged partition or disk and recover files by file type and supports file preview and file filter.
• Partition recovery - It is the best partition recovery program in that it can recover files from damaged, corrupted and RAW partitions, search for lost partition and recover files from it, besides, it can fix partition table.
• RAID recovery - It can reconstruct Virtual RAID and recover files from it, and all RAID types are supported.
• Sector Editor - A Hex editor is embedded to help users edit raw hex data and recover data manually.
• Backup and Restore - It can backup and restore partition including system partition, hard disk and partition table.
• Bad Tracks - It can check and repair bad sectors for all storage devices; check hard disk S.M.A.R.T. information.
• Delete files permanently - It can delete files permanently so that they can't be recovered by any data recovery software.
• Virtual Disk - It supports virtual disks, including VMware, Virtual PC and Virtual Box.
• Create WinPE bootable disk and you can manage disk partition when system crashes or there is no operating system on your computer.
• Support FAT12/FAT16/FAt32/exFAT/NTFS/EXT2/EXT3/EXT4 file system format.

DiskGenius 5.6.0.1565 changelog:

New

• The "Search for Lost Partitions" feature provides "Automatic" and "Advanced" modes to improve operational convenience.
• The "Construct Virtual RAID" feature adds support for RAID6, RAID1, and RAID10, improves the support for RAID5, and enhances the ability to read disks with bad sectors.

Enhanced

• Supports reading Storage Spaces in RAID6 format, including reading after one disk is damaged.
• Supports copying EFS-encrypted files in NTFS, FAT32, exFAT, and ReFS file systems.
• EFS-encrypted files are supported when recovering data from FAT32 and exFAT partitions.
• Supports encryption attributes of folders in FAT32 and exFAT file systems.
• The file preview feature supports both thumbnail and large image previews for encrypted files.
• Supports displaying ISO and UDF optical disk devices.
• The "File Recovery" feature and the "Load Current Partition Intelligently" feature improve the support for Recycle Bin, restoring files in the Recycle Bin to their original path.
• Improves the parsing of ReFS file system and supports ReFS 3.14.
• The feature that displays the cluster list for file data usage improves the support for ReFS file system.
• The partition table backup and restore feature improves the support for BitLocker encrypted partitions.
• Improves the support for ISO and UDF file systems.
• Improves the support for Ext4 file systems.
• Improves the "Recover Files By Type" feature (directly output data method), you can retry when writing errors occur, and create categorized folders during exporting data.
• Optimizes the display of the dialog box for viewing Storage Pool information.
• Optimizes the search feature for the Sector Editor.
• Improves the accuracy of recovering MP4 and ZIP formats by type.
• Optimizes data recovery effects for FAT32 and exFAT partitions.
• Optimizes data recovery effects for EXT4 partitions.
• When force deleting files in the system partition or the partition where the software is located, the software can restart into WinPE to execute the operation.
• When intelligently loading BitLocker partitions, the software supports partially encrypted BitLocker partitions.
• The file copy options are displayed first when copying files to facilitate automatic handling encountered problems.
• When backing up a partition to an image file on a network disk, the image file is no longer split by 2GB.
• When setting the image file path for the disk backup or partition backup feature, a default file name is automatically set for the image file.

Fixed

• Fixed the issue that partition resizing, backup, and restoration operations couldn't be correctly performed on FAT32 and exFAT partitions containing EFS encrypted files.
• Fixed the issue that the Go To Sector feature sometimes did not display the option to jump by cluster number.
• Fixed the issue that errors occurred when reading files larger than 4GB on exFAT partitions.
• Fixed the issue that the thumbnail preview might not display when frequently switching files.
• Fixed the issue that partitions on MBR disks larger than 2TB couldn't be resized.
• Fixed the issue that the destination disk displayed incorrectly after cloning LVM disks.
• Fixed the issue that the size of encrypted files on FAT32 and exFAT32 partitions was not displayed accurately.
• Fixed that issue that the partition diagram wat not updated after restoring a partition from an image file.
• Fixed that issue that in rare cases Office documents might not open after being copied out.
• Adds the Danish language pack.

Note: DiskGenius Lite Edition is suitable for Windows PE (Windows Preinstallation Environment). It is a stripped-down version of DiskGenius that offers basic disk partition management minus other functions like file recovery,.. etc.

Download: DiskGenius 5.6.0.1565 | 61.3 MB (Freeware, paid upgrade available)
Download: DiskGenius Portable 64-bit | 34.8 MB
Download: DiskGenius Portable 32-bit | 32.7 MB
Download: DiskGenius Lite 64-bit | 8.4 MB
Download: DiskGenius Lite 32-bit | 8.3 MB
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