Acronis True Image is a powerful disk imaging software that creates backups and recovers PC systems.Unfortunately this software is not free.However Acronis has an agreement with Seagate and Western Digital and provides a re-branded version of Acronis True Image completely free.

Diskgenius is an advanced disk recovery tool that can restore deleted partition, rebuild mbr, rebuild partition table, recover files and restore formatted partition etc. It also can backup files by partition or disk clone, and it also enables you to backup partition table for unexpected incident.

Paragon has published a white paper :”Partition Alignment Dramatically Increases System Performance”.This white paper describes all major issues regarding partitions misalignment on 4K hard disk drives, solid state drives, RAID, SAN and in virtual environments.You also get a free license for Partition Alignment Tool along with this White Paper.