Although Windows 10 is greatly improved in many aspects, its disk management features still have no advantage – same with Windows 7 and Windows 8. When faced with some issues like: move partition, merge partition, convert file system, Disk Management always let us down. Thus, it’s necessary to find another assistant to manage hard drive in a more appropriate way.

Why we need EaseUS Partition Master alternative? Generally speaking, EaseUS Partition Master is quite useful in hard drive management, and has gained great reputation all around the world. However, it’s free edition do has some limitations that prevent us from keeping using the freeware. Thus a free yet more powerful EaseUS Partition Master alternative is urgently needed.

Recently, more and more uers are talking about a hot topic “How to backup entire ‘hard disk’ with OS on a bootable disk?” . Here, fortunately, MiniTool Partition Wizard offers “Copy Disk” feature to help to easily and quickly copy disk from one disk to another without affecting the original data.

Disk copy is a way to make an exact same copy of the original hard drive, and this copy can be used directly. However, disk image is more like creating s large .zip file, with all data compressed in it. Disk image cannot be used directly, unless you make a restore.

So what are their differences?

According to what we have said from the start, we can draw the following conclusion:

Advantages of disk copy:
Disk copy requires more disk space than disk image;
Disk copy can be used as soon as it is finished;

With the development of technology, you use the computer to do work and other things. As time goes by, more and more data is saved on the hard drive of your computer, so that low disk space may appear. When you find your disk is running out of space, probably you are very upset and don’t know what should to do. When searching such a case on the internet, someone suggests you to extend partition size, and someone advises to replace this small hard drive. If all partitions are occupied by data, the second solution is a good choice.

When data in SD card is no longer a need, and you want to empty the SD card, what will you do? We believe there are numbers of people choose to delete all the files in File Explorer, and then put the SD card for other ruse. However, have you even concerned about whether the data in it is completely cleaned? In other words, are you sure the data in SD card cannot be restored by some professional data recovery software?