PartitionGuru Release Note:

[ Ver 4.6.2 ]

1. It employs MBR of NT6 when rebuilding master boot record with the purpose of enhancing compatibility.
2. It added the function that recovers files from the entire disk.
3. It offers the option that forces to backup system when Win8 is shut down quickly or partition isn't unloaded normally.
4. MBR partition table style can be selected when quick partitioning the disk larger than 2TB.
5. It rectified the BUG that partitions may get lost after using the function "Quick Partition" to a new hard drive (hard drive without MBR) and system restart.
6. It rectified the BUG that error occurs when the program resizes FAT16 partition.

[ Ver 4.6.0 ]

1. Improve partition backup and restore speed for backup mode "All Files".
2. Endian shown on the interpreter area changes when you click "Current Endian".
3. It's not allowed to select MBR partition table style when you perform the function quick partition to hard drives that larger than 2TB.
4. It adds support of Intel iFFS partition for GPT drive.
5. It adds the function that checks 4K sector alignment for partitions.
6. It adds an item that shows cluster occupied by files to sector edit function.
7. It adds the function "Go To Sectors" of  file system sectors.
8. It rectified the bug that program crashed when restoring partition from pmf file that backed up by previous version. 
9. It rectified the bug that program crashed when encountering special folders named by "..".
10. It rectified the bug that prompt information was shown incompletely when the program found an extended partition.
11. It rectified the bug that sometimes it failed to rename files.
12. It rectified the bug for sector edit function about dynamic disk and LVM volume.
13. It fixed the problem that when using the function Split Partition or Create New Partition, the newly created partition still shows as free space on the dialogue box "Resize Partition".
14. It rectified the bug that it failed to perform write or format operation when the program carried out Quick Partition to the hard disk whose partitions were all deleted and partition table was unsaved.
15. It rectified the bug that when recovering files the program couldn't pop up the context menu after right clicking deleted folders on the Partition and Folder Tree area.
16. It rectified the bug that some partition became Unformatted after saving partition table using the function converting partition table style to GUID.
17. It rectified the bug for sector edit function that the Current Endian became Big-Endian automatically after switching language.
18. It rectified the bug that after switching language, edit area didn't update and synchronize with data in the Interpreter area which changed after language switch.
19. It rectified the bug that dynamic volumes disappeared from the program interface after USB flash drive was inserted or unplugged.
20. It rectified the bug that the function "Delete Files Permanently" of Pro version couldn't delete directory entry.
21. It rectified the bug that the program might crash when it wrote files to NTFS partition.
22. It rectified the bug that the program may run into endless loop when recovering files by type.
23. All functions of PartitionGuru Pro DOS version can be used for free and register is no longer required. 

[ Ver 4.5.0 ]

1. The Windows version is able to specify timeout period when it verifies bad sectors; if hard drive is disconnected, the program will stop verifying and prompt message.
2. Optimized read and write to hard drives that have bad sectors and increased scanning speed for data recovery.
3. The free version added the function of partition table style conversion that allows users to convert partition table style between MBR and GUID.
4. It is allowed to select partition table style (MBR or GUID) on the message box when the program performs quick partition.
5. The program shows the menu of copying files when users right click folders of file directory tree on the left interface.
6. When the program restores Windows system partition for GPT disk, GUID is restored as well, making sure system start normally.
7. When restoring partition table, GPT or MBR, the program restores GUID or MBR signature respectively.
8. It is forbidden to restore partition from backup file which is unfinished or damaged.
9. The menu item "Show System Files" and its functions were changed to "Show NTFS Metafiles" and program doesn't show NTFS metafiles by default. 
10. Fixed the bug that 64 bit version crashed when backing up partition to image file.
11. Fixed the bug that program couldn't normally load PMF file backed up by older version for NTFS partition.
12. Fixed the bug that error happened if click "Stop" during the process of partition backup.
13. Fixed the bug that functions clone virtual disk and convert virtual disk format were not available.
14. Fixed the bug that program might crash when it recovered files by file type if TIFF file came up.
15. Rectified the problem that program didn't show the name "Bitlocker Encrypted" for partition with drive letter which is encrypted by Bitlocker.
16. Fixed the bug that it often failed to make bootable USB disk and the bootable USB disk couldn't work.
17. Fixed the bug that program crashed when USB flash disk was inserted or disconnected in the process of copying files.
18. Rectified the problem that in the process of loading PMF image file, program could be interrupted by disk update information when storage device such as USB flash disk was inserted or disconnected.

[ Ver 4.4.0 ]

1. Added sector edit function.
2. Enhanced the speed of partition backup with the backup mode "all files".
3. Added the function of allocating free space to an appointed partition.
4. Added the function of converting virtual disk format.
5. The newly created partition is aligned to integral multiples of sectors by default using KB as unit.
6. Users are allowed to specify the beginning sector and sector count on the dialog box "create new partition".
7. Either hidden partition or image files in virtual disk¡¯s partition can be loaded directly.
8. The mark ".." was added to return to parent directory in file browse area.
9. When resizing partition, the partition encrypted by BitLocker can¡¯t be moved or resized.
10. When adding disk or partition to virtual RAID, the program allows to add partitions by double clicking one after another without closing the "select source partition" dialog box.
11. It is not allowed to select the target folder on the disk being recovered when using the function recover files by type.
12. The function "recover files by type" increases the support of sldprt file type produced by SolidWorks.
13. The physical sector size of hard disk can be detected and showed on the interface.
14. The bad track verification only adopts the mode read verification, on longer using the mode standard verification.
15. When repairing bad tracks, the program will not show the report sector read error.
16. The defaulted size of first partition is properly enlarged in quick partition function with the purpose of meeting the needs of installing Windows 7/8.
17. No dialog box will be popped up when updating is available, which is changed as scrolling message on the title bar.
18. Improved the support of differential VHD disks.
19. Rectified the problem that sometimes disk can¡¯t be seen when it had bad sectors and it was recognized as "uninitialized" in disk management.
20. Fixed the bug that the program stopped searching lost partitions when meeting bad sectors.
21. Fixed the problem that sometimes the disk serial number couldn¡¯t be acquired accurately when several disks were connected through USB.
22. Fixed the bug that the program crashed when copying big files to hidden partition.
23. Fixed the bug that the progress bar showed wrongly when verifying bad track for disk with a capacity larger than 2TB.
24. Fixed the bug that the virtual disk wasn¡¯t set as current disk after it was loaded.
25. Fixed the bug that large BMP files couldn¡¯t be previewed.
26. Fixed the bug that sometimes computer couldn¡¯t reboot to the program¡¯s DOS version.
27. Rectified the problem that the file recovery function still copied files that had been filtered.

[ Ver 4.3.0 ] 

1. New: The Pro version added the function "Intelligent Load NTFS Partition", ignoring folder's index when loading partition, which is similar to the way Winhex does;
2. New: Added the function setting sector size in the dialog box "Set Disk Geometry", which can be used to recover data when the sector size recorded by file system is not consistent with actual sector size;
3. New: Added Japanese language support;
4. Enhanced: When previewing files, the Pro version supports more video and audio file types;
5. Enhanced: Supported loading Hyper-V VHDX virtual disk in a read-only way;
6. Enhanced: More file types were added when the program searches for known file types: 3g2, m4v, mmf, X3F, M4R, AIF, MKV, MTS, WRF, WMF, VFB, VNT, IPA, PXL, GP5, VEG, DRW, QQ chatting records (.DB), etc;
7. Fixed: It's available to input remarks in Chinese when the program backs up partition in its DOS version;
8. Fixed: Rectified the BUG that the PartitionGuru 32bit version couldn't load PMF image of FAT partition;
9. Fixed: Rectified the mistake that the backup mode All Files was adopted while the backup mode Data Sectors Only was supposed to be;
10. Fixed: Removed the BUG that partitions couldn't be shown immediately after the scanning when the program was recovering files from FDD virtual disk.
11. Fixed: Removed the BUG that the program stopped response when it loaded FAT partitions if the FAT table got damaged;
12. Fixed: Rectified the problem that sometimes NTFS partitions couldn't be searched out;
13. Fixed: Removed the BUG that error occurred when the program was parsing PMF files which were not backed up by file;
14. Fixed: Removed the BUG that in the advanced settings of Backup Partition To Image File other folders might be excluded when adding folders that needs excluding;
15. Fixed: Removed the BUG that in some occasions when partition table was saved the CHS parameter became incorrect;
16. Fixed: Rectified the problem that the Pro version couldn't resize GPT partitions.
17. Fixed: Removed the BUG that in some circumstances when recovering files the program corrupted.

[ Ver 4.2.0 ] 

1. New: When backing up partitions by file, you can choose not to back up certain files or folders;
2. New: When backing up partitions by file, it supports incremental backup as well as backing up a couple of points-in-time; also it can restore the partition to any point-in-time backed up before;
3. New: It backs up MBR when backing up system partition to the image file; when restoring data, if MBR has changed it'll ask user whether recover MBR;
4. New: It added the function of previewing video files;
5. Enhanced: It strengthened the function of recovering files of NTFS partitions;
6. Fixed: It rectified the problem that sometimes it couldn't load and display FAT32 files fully, which could make it unavailable that resizing the FAT32 partitions;
7. Fixed: It fixed the BUG that when it restored partition table of hard disk larger than 2TB, after loading the partition table, some partitions were shown as "unformatted" and the partition table still had mistakes even after the restoring.
8. Fixed: It fixed the BUG that not all the data was copied when it was copying file larger than 4GB to virtual disks (or hidden partitions);
9. Fixed: It rectifies the problem that NTFS partitions of hard disk larger than 2 TB were still shown as "unformatted" in Windows even if it was indeed formatted;
10. Fixed: It rectified the problem that after it found out partitions of GPT disk it couldn't save the partition table if there were less than 34 free sectors on the rear and front part of the disk.
11. Fixed: It fixed the problem that it would crash when resizing partitions of removable disk;
12. Fixed: It fixed the problem that it might crash when it made bootable USB flash disk in Window7;
13. Fixed: It fixed the BUG that it might crash if you close it with the previewing window opened;
14. Fixed: It fixed the problem that it might be deadlocked when verifying bad sectors;
15. Fixed: It fixed the BUG that when creating logical partitions under its DOS version, the check box "Logical Partition" was not checked on the dialog box "Create New Partition";
16. Fixed: It fixed the BUG that under its DOS version the function of resizing partition without data loss couldn't be started by shortcut keys Ctrl_F11.

[ Ver 4.0.1 ] 

1. New: Added the function of resizing partitions without data loss (including expend partition, shrink partition, split partition and so on). 
2. New: If you execute the order creating a new partition on the selected partition, the program will automatically call the function of resizing partition without data loss in order to split a new partition from the current partition.
3. Enhanced: Accelerated the speed of searching for lost partitions. 
4. Enhanced: When back up or restore system partition, if the DOS version can be started, the program will enter DOS and finish operations automatically. 
5. Enhanced: When searching for lost partitions, if you ignore the searched out partition, opened previewed window will be closed to avoid something abnormal. 
6. Fixed: Fixed the problem that it couldn't recover files on LVM logical volume. 
7. Fixed: Fixed the problem that sometimes the size of a cluster would exceed 128 sectors when it formatted FAT partition. 
8. Fixed: Fixed the problem that in Win2003 blank MBR disk changed into GPT would turn into MBR again after partition table was saved. 
9. Fixed: Fixed the problem that after recovering deleted files it didn't filter the display of normal files 
10. Fixed: Fixed the BUG that when recovering NTFS zip files it couldn't go on copying other files after file copying appeared errors. 
11. Fixed: Fixed the problem that cloning, backup or recovering partition could be abnormally interrupted. 
12. Fixed: Fixed the BUG that target disk just had one MBR protected partition left after cloning disk by sectors. 
13. Fixed: Fixed the problem that in some conditions it couldn't load all of the files of FAT32 partition. 
14. Fixed: Fixed the problems that when recovering deleted files from FAT32 partition, files large than one cluster can't be copied. 
15. Fixed: Fixed the problems that it couldn't enter DOS when several disks exist. 

[ Ver 3.8.0 ]

<* Professional version only>
1. New: Supports dynamic disks and dynamic volumes, can read or write files and recover data from dynamic volumes.* 
2. New: Supports converting dynamic disks contained simple volumes only to basic disk.*
3. New: Add "Extra Search for Known File Types" option when using "Recover Deleted Files" recovery mode, to recover files according to specified types from free clusters.*
4. New: Optimized bad sectors processing, improving the program's speed obviously when there are lots of bad sectors in disk.* 
5. New: Show error message in pop-up window when it fails to read or write sectors.* 
6. New: Save the bad sectors records automatically when the program is closed. Load the bad sectors records automatically when the program is openned.* 
7. New: Add "Reset Bad Sector Records" menu item for clearing bad sectors records from memory, in order to try reading bad sectors again when encountered next time.* 
8. New: when performing partition clone, disk clone, backup partition or partition recovery, if it encounters sector read or write error, it'll ignore the error and continue the operation automatically, and meanwhile the error information will be shown on the message window.* 
9. New: When performing some long time operations, user can select shutdown, standby or hibernate when the operations are completed.* 
10. New: Supports drag and drop operations when add virtual disk files to folder tree. Multiple virtual disk files can be selected from the file selecting window.* 
11. New: Optimized the interface of disk and partition selecting window. 
12. New: Supports searching for lost BitLocker partitions.* 
13. Enhanced: Optimized the program's opening and running speed. 
14. Enhanced: While recovering files, if the program can not automatically save the recovery progress when the program is installed on the partition that is recovering files, the program will prompt the user to save the scan progress to other partition. 
15. Enhanced: The "System Volume Information" folder will not be created while formatting NTFS partition. 
16. Enhanced: Forbid to execute the "Quick Partition" operation on the disk where the operating system is installed. 
17. Enhanced: Add editable sectors number item on RAID contructing dialog.* 
18. Enhanced: The main interface will switch to "file and folder shown" status when you double click the partition in the partition list. 
19. Fixed: Fix the problem that a redundant drive letter appeared when an empty card reader is inserted. 
20. Fixed: Fix the problem that a redundant driver letter appeared when a USB flash disk is inserted. 
21. Fixed: Fix the bug that the program crashed while recovering deleted files in FAT partition. 
22. Fixed: Fix the problem that the DOS version program can not enter graphic interface while some special video card is installed in the computer. 
23. Fixed: Fix the bug in "Verify and Repair Bad Tracks" function. 
24. Fixed: Fix the problem that the driver letter can not be deleted in some special case. 
25. Fixed: Fix the problem that the program's freeze while recovering files by file types.* 
26. Fixed: Fix the bug that the interface will be wrongly displayed while clicking the parititon after recovering files. 
27. Fixed: Fix the bug that the program crashed while recovering files again under "file recovery" status. 
28. Fixed: Fix the bug that the scan area become the whole disk while recovering files by file types on free space.* 
29. Fixed: Fix the problem that the scan procedure will be interrupted by the refresh message of the disk partitions while recovering files with the menu "Tools" - "Recover Files by Types".* 
30. Fixed: Fix the bug that the "Select all", "Unselect all" and "Reverse Select" buttons in "Select File Types to Recover" window are invalid while the file types tree are not fully expended.* 
31. Fixed: Fix the bug that the program crashed while previewing images on some special cases.* 
32. Fixed: Fix the bug that error occurs while the program loading unmatched scan process file. 

[ Ver 3.7.0 ]

1. New: Support more file types when recovering files by known type.
2. New: Can preview files in a large window.
3. New: Support preview office documents including WORD, EXCEL and PowerPoint files.
4. Enhanced: After recovering files, the number and capacity of selected files will be displayed on the status bar.
5. Enhanced: Change the accelerator key F9 and F10 for back up and restore partition table to F2 and F3.
6. Fixed: A bug of lost partition recovery.
7. Fixed: A bug of formatting NTFS partition under Windows 7.
8. Fixed: Program may run into endless loop when recovering files by type. 

[ Ver 3.6.0 ]

1. New: Recovery lost files from unallocated disk space.
2. New: Extra search for known file types when recovering files.
3. New: Recovery files by known type and output immediately(can scan free clusters only).
4. New: Construct virtual RAID for data recovery(RAID recovery).
5. Enhanced: Add a Open Folder button to the File Copy dialog box. Click it will open the target folder.
6. Enhanced: Can save file recovery progress to a file for later continue.
7. Enhanced: When repairing bad tracks, try to keep the sector data unchanged to decrease data lose.
8. Enhanced: Prevent changing the drive letter of the system partition.
9. Fixed: Refresh partitions after erasing the sectors of a partition or a disk.
10. Fixed: The Arranging Files operation may take very long time when recovering lost files.
11. Fixed: Can not recover lost files from BitLocker partition.
12. Fixed: When backing up a NTFS partition to separate image files, the image files may become unusable.
13. Fixed: The file size may become 0 byte when extract it from a partition image file.

[ Ver 3.5.0 ]

1. New: Erase sectors of a disk or a partition, can specify sector range and fill type.
2. New:Permanently delete files. After this operation the files will not be undeleted by any software.
3. New: Support reading files from Samsung RFS File system partition.
4. New: Add a file filter panel for File Recovery function. you can filter files by name, attributes, size and time.
5. Enhanced: Enhanced: When recovering files, speed up file organizing at the final stage.
6. Enhanced: Support creating folder with special file name when copying files.
7. Enhanced: Support creating folder with special file name when copying files.
8. Fixed: Can not cancel the formatting process of the quick partition function.
9. Fixed: Program may crash when quit the program.
10. Fixed: Can not correctly display the USB-FDD disk sometimes.
11. Fixed: On the quick partition dialogue, when clicking the Default Size button, the partition type was reset unexpectedly.
12. Fixed: Bad track repairing may failed sometimes.
13. Fixed: When files were written to a partition, after the partition was refreshed, the files may disappeared sometimes.
14. Fixed: The drive letter of unformatted partition do not displayed sometimes.
15. Fixed: When recover files from FAT32 partition, not all files can be recovered.

[ Ver 3.4.5 ]

1. New: Support recovering large and very fragmented files.
2. New: Question resolved: In some cases the data of the recovered files may not correct.
3. New: Support searching the partitions by cylinders. Only the partitions aligned to cylinders could be found.
4. New: Display the starting sector number of unknown type partitions and free space on partition information panel.
5. New: Do not write the Local AppWizard-Generated Applications registry key.
6. Fixed: The verify bad tracks on removable disks it always report errors.
7. Fixed: Can not assign drive letter after quick partition on Windows 2003 PE system.
8. Fixed: Can not correctly delete the second logical partition after the first one was already deleted.
9. Fixed: After recovering deleted files and reloading the partition, the deleted folders still displayed on the directory tree.
10. Fixed: In some cases some files of FAT file system can not displayed.
11. Fixed: Program may crashed on some anomalous partition table.
12. Fixed: n some cases an unwanted drive letter may displayed when a USB disk was inserted.
13. Fixed: After writing some files into NTFS partition under DOS system, the files could not be found by Windows system.
14. Fixed: Can not find logical partitions from the free space sometimes.
15. Fixed: After recovering files on NTFS partition, some files could not be displayed in some cases.
16. Fixed: After recovering files on NTFS partition, the Lost Files folder did not displayed.
17. Fixed: When copying files to NTFS compressed partition the files was not compressed.
18. Fixed: When setting the volume name of NTFS partition, if the new name is shorter than the old one, the volume will be not correct.

[ Ver 3.4.3 ]

1. New: Use Windows XP's MBR when rebuilding master boot record.
2. Fixed: All SAVING FILES menu items are disabled when recovering files on Version 3.4.2.
3. Fixed: When copying files to an abnormally dismounted partition, the file copying dialog not be closed.
4. Fixed: Can not assign drive letter after quick partition on Windows PE system.
5. Fixed: When booting from the partition which restored from a partition image file on Windows PE system, the operating system may crash and display a blue screen.
6. Fixed: When exploring partition image (.pmf file), some files may not be displayed.
7. Fixed: Can not activate DOS version when register.

[ Ver 3.4.2 ]

1. New: When recovering files, save searching progress automatically per 2 minutes. 
2. New: Display types information of virtual disks on Disk Information panel.
3. New: When activate a partition, if the partition is hidden, cancel the hidden flag automatically.
4. New: When hiding a system partition, do not try to lock it.
5. New: Add a "Read-Verification" option on Bad Track Verification dialog. When this option was selected, the verification result will depend on the reading operation.
6. New: Enhance keyboard operation. TAB key to switch input focus. Ctrl_Left and Ctrl_Right key to switch current partition or space.
7. New: Add an "Ignore the partitions without files" checkbox on Search Lost Partitions dialog. When this option was selected, the partitions found without files will be ignored automatically.
8. Fixed: Can not open the FAT32 partition when the root directory has a same filename with volume label.
9. Fixed: Can not set volume label for FAT32 partition when there is a same filename.
10. Fixed: Program crashed when formatting a very small FAT32 partition. 

[ Ver 3.4.0 ]

New:
1. Support Virtual PC disk files(".vhd" file).
2. Support VirtualBox disk files(".vdi" file).
3. Support directly load and extract files from NTFS partition image backed up by files.
4. Support the disks with non-512 bytes sector size.
5. Support BitLocker encrypted partitions.
6. Display cluster allocation diagram of each partition.
7. Support renaming files and folders.

Enhanced:
1. New search mode for the function of searching for lost partitions, simplify search settings. Never use the automatic and advanced mode again.
2. When copying files, it won't permit saving files to newly found partitions.
3. While recovering lost files from a partition, PartitionGuru can automatically recover files from origin FAT32 and NTFS file systems at the same time.
4. The function of recovering lost files can automatically save recovery progress. When it searches again, the recovery progress can be loaded and continue.
5. On the file browsing list control, the deleted file and the files without parent are distinguished by special icons.
6. When a partition is destroyed, PartitionGuru can try its best to list the file for recovering.
7. When creating a new partition, the input focus is automatically set to the size control on the "create new partition" dialogue.
8. After creating a new partition, the next free space will be automatically selected. When creating the second partition, the partition type will be automatically set to "extended". If there are already three primary partitions, when creating the fourth partition, the partition type will be automatically set to "extended" too.
9. Add alignment options to the "Create new partition" dialogue. It can be used for aligning the partition position and size to the integral multiple of the specified sector numbers.
10. Add alignment options to the "Create ESP and MSR partition" dialogue.
11. Add alignment options to the "Quick partition" dialogue. All partitions can be aligned to the integral multiple of the specified sector numbers.
12. On the function of "Make USB Bootable Disk", the "Create DOS system" option on the formatting dialogue can be selected or not. While making FDD disk, the FAT32 file system type can not be selected because FreeDOS does not support it.
13. When formatting NTFS partition, set the default cluster size and the position of the metafiles like $MFT to same as the Windows formatting program.
14. The function of formatting NTFS partition does not support the cluster size larger than 64KB.
15. Change the interface style to XP mode.
16. Rearrange the sequence of the toolbar buttons.

Fixed:
1. Fixed: After searching for lost partitions on GPT disk, the GUID of the existing partition was changed.
2. Fixed: While recovering lost files, the "$Extend" folder will be copied even it is not selected.
3. Fixed: When recovering deleted files, the program may be crashed when the "Show normal files" option is selected.
4. Fixed: After restoring a NTFS partition from an image file, CHKDSK may report errors on the partition.
5. Fixed: On the function of "clone disk", the program may be crashed after a disk is selected.
6. Fixed: The "Create new partition" dialogue for creating a GUID partition, when the partition type is changed, the partition type GUID does not automatically change.
7. Fixed: While PartitionGuru is running, the removable disk can not be dismounted even if it is not opened.
8. Fixed: Sometimes the partition table backup can not be restored because of the program crash.
9. Fixed: Can not load the FAT/FAT32 partition with single File Allocation Table(FAT).
10. Fixed: Can not change the volume name of a hidden partition under Windows 7 system.
11. Fixed: On the function of "Quick Partition", when set the last partition as primary, a little free space on the tail of the disk may be not allocated.
12. Fixed: After a Quick Partition under Windows 7 system, some unwanted drive letters may be generated.
13. Fixed: When open some memory cards the program may be crashed. 

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