Firstly, the free edition can convert FAT to NTFS but to convert NTFS to FAT requires the Pro version. So what else differs between Free, Pro, and Pro Ultimate. However, once again you can get this feature for less elsewhere rather than upgrading to the Pro Ultimate version. On the other hand, recovering data from hard disks is a lot more viable. For an extra 40 to 60 dollars that is one heck of a lot for very little additional benefit. The big one though is data recovery is only available with the Pro Ultimate edition. Speed of shutting down the system to recover data will play a bigger role in your success than what recovery tool you use. It simply has to do with how SSDs do internal housecleaning and ‘clean’ blocks that have data in them that is no longer being ‘used’. Usually some can be recovered… and some cannot.

No matter the program it may or may not get all your files back. At the best of times, it’s a ‘crapshoot’. Firstly… SSD’s (ie NAND based storage devices) are notorious for not being able to fully recover data. In the meantime, yanking a drive and testing on a ‘known good’ system is pretty much how most professionals do things, so as long as your known good rig is MS based Partition Wizard v11 will have you covered.Īnother caveat we need to point out is while MiniTool proudly proclaims SSD File Recovery abilities there are two things to take into account before having faith in this claim. We really would like to have seen a Linux and/or Apple version available. The only fly in the ointment so to speak… is Partition Wizard v11 (like the ten versions before it) is MS Windows only. Ext file system actually out numbers the number of ‘Windows’ systems we deal with that have hard drive ‘problems’. This is great a boon, as these days the number of Linux systems using a flavor of the. With version 11 now you can not only work with a ton of different file systems, it can even format disk(s) into the EXT file formats (Ext2,3,4 supported). One area that older versions of Partition Wizard were… less than optimal with was handling non-NTFS filesystem-based drives.

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