This might be slightly OT, but probably not much.

I relied on Partition Magic for years, but am a little wary of it now
since Norton (Symantec) got their grubby hands on it. Their programs
seem to scatter files all over the hard drive that are next to
impossible to get rid of completely. What's the best partition
program to use other than PM?

Thanks for your help.

Larc



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Forget partitions, way to dangerous.

Use File Disk Images, and the File Disk tool, at least, that is, if you
using Windows.

Check it out.

Bye,
Skybuck.

In article <(E-Mail Removed)>, Larc says...
> This might be slightly OT, but probably not much.
>
> I relied on Partition Magic for years, but am a little wary of it now
> since Norton (Symantec) got their grubby hands on it. Their programs
> seem to scatter files all over the hard drive that are next to
> impossible to get rid of completely. What's the best partition
> program to use other than PM?
>
BootitNG. Just don't install it to the HDD. Comes as a small ISO which
creates a bootable disk.



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"Larc" <larc-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote
>
> I relied on Partition Magic for years, but am a little wary of it now
> since Norton (Symantec) got their grubby hands on it. Their programs
> seem to scatter files all over the hard drive that are next to
> impossible to get rid of completely. What's the best partition
> program to use other than PM?

Why not an old, pre-Symantec version of PM? V7 works fine!

"John Weiss" wrote:
> "Larc" <larc-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote
>>
>> I relied on Partition Magic for years, but am a little wary of it now
>> since Norton (Symantec) got their grubby hands on it. Their programs
>> seem to scatter files all over the hard drive that are next to
>> impossible to get rid of completely. What's the best partition
>> program to use other than PM?
>
> Why not an old, pre-Symantec version of PM? V7 works fine!

Partition Magic (and other pre-Vista partitioning and cloning
and multi-booting utilities) seem to be "iffy" when used with Vista.
It seems to involve the way Vista creates partitions and addresses
those partitions. To understand this (I didn't) set aside a couple
evenings to read this, including all the webpages linked to it:
http://www.multibooters.co.uk/ .

Discussions on the Net which involve this feature of Vista seem
to indicate that if the Vista installer created the partitions, special
procedures are necessary to move or clone them. But if some
other utility created the partition that Vista is in, partition management
and cloning utlilities will work as they have for earlier Windows OSes.

*TimDaniels*

Get GPARTED (GNU Partition Editor). Download the .iso (free) and burn
to CD. Boot from that and you can do whatever you need. It works
great and the price can't be beat.

AD

On Mar 14, 9:01*am, Larc <larc-n...@saturnlink.net> wrote:
> This might be slightly OT, but probably not much. *
>
> I relied on Partition Magic for years, but am a little wary of it now
> since Norton (Symantec) got their grubby hands on it. *Their programs
> seem to scatter files all over the hard drive that are next to
> impossible to get rid of completely. *What's the best partition
> program to use other than PM?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Larc
>
> * * *§§§ - Change planet to earth to reply by email - §§§

"AD" (E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
Get GPARTED (GNU Partition Editor). Download the .iso (free)
> and burn to CD. Boot from that and you can do whatever you need
> It works great and the price can't be beat.

I've heard consistently good things about Gparted (and the
GUI for it, Parted Magic). Have you ever used it to move
("slide") a partition that had been created by the Vista installer?

*TimDaniels*

Larc wrote:
> This might be slightly OT, but probably not much.
>
> I relied on Partition Magic for years, but am a little wary of it now
> since Norton (Symantec) got their grubby hands on it. Their programs
> seem to scatter files all over the hard drive that are next to
> impossible to get rid of completely. What's the best partition
> program to use other than PM?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Larc
>
>
>
> §§§ - Change planet to earth to reply by email - §§§

I like to use gParted live CD. You can partition any file system with
it. And it's free. Download the .iso, burn it and boot it.




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Larc <larc-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> This might be slightly OT, but probably not much.
>
> I relied on Partition Magic for years, but am a little wary of it
> now since Norton (Symantec) got their grubby hands on it. Their
> programs seem to scatter files all over the hard drive that are
> next to impossible to get rid of completely. What's the best
> partition program to use other than PM?

Probably Acronis Disk Director. I bought version 10 from Newegg for
$35 US total. I am using it on Windows XP SP2, don't know how well
the current version 10 works with Vista. Disk Director is easier to
use than Partition Manager (my last disk manager, and PartitionMagic
before that) or Partition Commander, apparently from the same
company. Disk Director appears much more capable and it is more
intuitive IMO with a better user interface than those.

Since you're familiar with disk management software, of course you
know the potential hazards and you know enough to keep removable
media copies of any important files from your hard drive. Also, make
the optional boot media or a clone of the program disk if it
functions as a boot disk. Don't get rid of your Partition Magic boot
disk. I find having boot disks from more than one publisher/program
can make unexpected problems much easier to solve.

Good luck and have fun.












>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Larc
>
>
>
> §§§ - Change planet to earth to reply by email - §§§

Timothy Daniels wrote:
> "AD" (E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Get GPARTED (GNU Partition Editor). Download the .iso (free)
>> and burn to CD. Boot from that and you can do whatever you need
>> It works great and the price can't be beat.
>
> I've heard consistently good things about Gparted (and the
> GUI for it, Parted Magic). Have you ever used it to move
> ("slide") a partition that had been created by the Vista installer?
>
> *TimDaniels*
>
>
Parted magic is garbage.

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