
I lean toward DiskGenius because it can help you move your PC's main drive - with an installation of Windows on it - to a smaller drive, automatically resizing it to fit. These two utilities are so similar that the choice between them comes down to picking the one that has the interface you find more appealing. Other tools included in these packages can copy the whole contents of a drive to another drive - including moving your installation of Windows - or attempt to recover damaged or deleted partitions. You might want to partition a large drive on your network, for example, to keep shared files separate from your Windows OS. DiskGenius and MiniTool Partition Wizardīoth DiskGenius and MiniTool Partition Wizard let you create, copy, delete, merge, resize, or divide up the partitions of your PC's hard drive or SSD. I also like CCleaner because it lets you uninstall most of the Microsoft programs that come with Windows 10 and 11 that neither OS will - out of the box - let you remove, such as Cortana and OneDrive. This can potentially recover a lot of storage space. QCOW (QEMU Copy-On-Write) - the format for QEMU.CCleaner can quickly delete the browser history, cache, cookies, logs, temporary user passwords, and other background files that Windows and the web browsers installed on your system have accumulated over time, but that aren’t necessary to its operation.QED (QEMU enhanced disk) - the format for QEMU/KVM.HDD (Parallels Hard Disk) - Parallels Desktop disk format.VHD, VHDX (Virtual Hard Disk) - Microsoft Hyper-V disk format.VMDK (Virtual Machine Disk) - VMware Player/Workstation disk format.VDI (VirtualBox Disk Image) - VirtualBox disk format.
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Partition Recovery™ supports the most widespread hard disk formats used by popular virtual machines: After that, you will be able to work with such disk just like you would with any other storage device (an external or internal HDD, flash drive or memory card).

Just mount the virtual hard disk in the utility menu, and it will appear under «Mounted Disks». You can always recover any data lost while working with a virtual machine (VMware Workstation, Oracle VirtualBox, Microsoft Hyper-V and others), if the virtual machine becomes inoperable or the virtual hard disk gets damaged. The tool can handle virtual machine disks or virtual hard disks.
