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jmc
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 Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 5:30 pm Post subject: Best partitioning software? |
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Looking for suggestions on what's considered the best software these
days for partitioning hard drives. I need to do a bit of resizing &
maybe combining of multiple partitions. I need one that'll work in
Windows 2000 as well as XP.
If there's a good free, open source partitioning product out there,
that'd be my first choice.
I currently have PartitionMagic 7, but not sure what the upper limit in
HD/Partition size is for this product, which is rather old.
Thanks for any assistance!
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| Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 7:03 pm Post subject: Re: Best partitioning software? |
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You have a number of choices. Partition Magic 8 works, and is the
only application which will change FAT32 to NTFS. I still have the
Power Quest version. I don't like Norton and I have steered clear of
the Nortonized version.
I also have and use Acronis Disk Director 10. It does everything that
Partition Magic does (except the FAT32 to NTFS conversion), is a bit
friendlier and lacks a few of the quirks that Partition Magic has.
Newegg seems to have it for around $30 (check the downloadable
software and the box software and you can get the one that is cheapest
when you check).
However if you'd like to try an open source program, I would suggest
that you try GParted, also known as Gnome Partition Editor. It is a
program which you can get on a Live CD, that is a CD that runs Linux
from the CD. Although I don't think that GParted will merge
partitions, and will not convert FAT32 to NTFS, it does everything
else. Since it is a Linux program, it will use Linux terminology when
showing you your hard drive (but of course you can see the partition
labels too). I really like GParted and use it. The brand new version
seems a bit buggy, but you can use the previous version, 0.3.4-6. It
is available here:
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gparted/gparted-livecd-0.3.4-6.iso?modtime=1176448208&big_mirror=0
Eliot
On Mon, 28 May 2007 21:48:59 +0930, jmc
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| Quote: | Looking for suggestions on what's considered the best software these
days for partitioning hard drives. I need to do a bit of resizing &
maybe combining of multiple partitions. I need one that'll work in
Windows 2000 as well as XP.
If there's a good free, open source partitioning product out there,
that'd be my first choice.
I currently have PartitionMagic 7, but not sure what the upper limit in
HD/Partition size is for this product, which is rather old.
Thanks for any assistance!
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hummingbird
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| Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 11:05 pm Post subject: Re: Best partitioning software? |
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On Mon, 28 May 2007 21:48:59 +0930 'jmc'
posted this onto alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt:
| Quote: | Looking for suggestions on what's considered the best software these
days for partitioning hard drives. I need to do a bit of resizing &
maybe combining of multiple partitions. I need one that'll work in
Windows 2000 as well as XP.
If there's a good free, open source partitioning product out there,
that'd be my first choice.
I currently have PartitionMagic 7, but not sure what the upper limit in
HD/Partition size is for this product, which is rather old.
Thanks for any assistance!
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Post this question in alt.comp.freeware and you will be given a list
of freeware HDD partitioners. There's a few around. |
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John Weiss
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| Posted: Tue May 29, 2007 10:58 am Post subject: Re: Best partitioning software? |
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"jmc" <NOnewsgroupsSPAM@NOjodiBODY.HOMEus> wrote...
| Quote: | Looking for suggestions on what's considered the best software these days
for partitioning hard drives. I need to do a bit of resizing & maybe
combining of multiple partitions. I need one that'll work in Windows
2000 as well as XP.
I currently have PartitionMagic 7, but not sure what the upper limit in
HD/Partition size is for this product, which is rather old.
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I have PQMagic 7 and still use it to partition my HDs. I have both W2K and
XP machines; largest HD is 300 GB. |
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John Weiss
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| Posted: Tue May 29, 2007 10:59 am Post subject: Re: Best partitioning software? |
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| Quote: | You have a number of choices. Partition Magic 8 works, and is the
only application which will change FAT32 to NTFS.
I also have and use Acronis Disk Director 10. It does everything that
Partition Magic does (except the FAT32 to NTFS conversion), is a bit
friendlier and lacks a few of the quirks that Partition Magic has.
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The native Windows convert utility will do the FAT32-NTFS conversion. No
partition utility is needed for that. |
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jmc
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| Posted: Tue May 29, 2007 11:07 am Post subject: Re: Best partitioning software? |
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Suddenly, without warning, John Weiss exclaimed (29-May-07 3:28 PM):
| Quote: | "jmc" <NOnewsgroupsSPAM@NOjodiBODY.HOMEus> wrote...
Looking for suggestions on what's considered the best software these days
for partitioning hard drives. I need to do a bit of resizing & maybe
combining of multiple partitions. I need one that'll work in Windows
2000 as well as XP.
I currently have PartitionMagic 7, but not sure what the upper limit in
HD/Partition size is for this product, which is rather old.
I have PQMagic 7 and still use it to partition my HDs. I have both W2K and
XP machines; largest HD is 300 GB.
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Problem is, PQMagic 7 can't see my new drive. That's not important now,
but would be later, and may end up being if I don't like how I've just
rearranged things.
The new drive is a WD 250GB SATA drive. I suspect that PQM's blindness
has something to do with the version of SATA it's using - couldn't even
run the drive with my old short SATA cable, had to use my new short
SATA2 cable...
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| Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 1:59 am Post subject: Re: Best partitioning software? |
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In <5bvvmiF2ui10aU1@mid.individual.net>, on 05/28/07
at 09:48 PM, jmc <NOnewsgroupsSPAM@NOjodiBODY.HOMEus> said:
| Quote: | Looking for suggestions on what's considered the best software these
days for partitioning hard drives. I need to do a bit of resizing &
maybe combining of multiple partitions. I need one that'll work in
Windows 2000 as well as XP.
If there's a good free, open source partitioning product out there,
that'd be my first choice.
I currently have PartitionMagic 7, but not sure what the upper limit in
HD/Partition size is for this product, which is rather old.
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There's the shareware DFSEE (www.dfsee.com), which comes in Windows, OS/2,
Linux, and Dos versions, and has great author support via a Yahoo group.
Registered users can send the author disk reports that he'll check for
problems and tell how to fix them.
Alan
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