In this information-based era, information security is attached much importance to. Information security has two meanings. One is the security of data; it means using modern cryptographic algorithm to protect data, for example, data encryption and bi-directional identity authentication. The other is data protection; it means protecting data with modern information storage measures, for example, disk arrays, data backup. In order to prevent data from being leaked, users will take privacy encryption to protect data. And for the sake of timely data recovery, users will choose data backup and disaster recovery to recover lost data. Undeniably, data protection measures are able to reduce influences caused by data loss problems, its cost are quite high, which few users can afford. Those measures are mainly aimed at data updating in real time. And if users need to back up data infrequently used, copying data is enough. If data amount is large, users need to copy partition or copy disk. Users can resort to professional drive copy software.

At present, there is much free drive copy software in the software market, but little is able to guarantee data security. For the sake of data security and convenience, the free drive copy software MiniTool Drive Copy is recommended.

Why MiniTool Drive Copy recommended?
Firstly, the free drive copy software is able to guarantee data security and there will be detailed prompts in every step. Secondly, its operations are simple, saving users' time and energy. Thirdly, it is able to free copy partition on mainstream Windows operating systems like Windows XP/Vista/7/8 and Windows Server 2000/2003/2008/2012. Lastly, in the process of copying partition, the free drive copy software allows users to resize partition.

How to free copy partition?
Please visit the official website http://www.minitool-drivecopy.com to download MiniTool Drive Copy and install it. Then launch the free drive copy software and we'll see its main interface.



Click "Partition to Partition" to copy partition. The following interface will be shown.



Select the partition that will be copied and click "Next" button to go on.



Select the unallocated space to store the partition backup and click "Next" button. Note: the size of the unallocated must be larger than data amount of the original partition.



Resize partition and then click "Finish" button. After all operations are finished, copying partition will succeed.

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