Freeware Partition Management

[Grinder]

Can anyone recommend a good quality partition management package,
preferrably free or cheap?

Specifically I need to copy an XP installation (NTFS) from a 40 Gb HD
down to a 10 Gb drive. There should be plenty of room, but I'm not sure
if that's possible for something that will attempt to copy at the
partition level.

Thanks.

 

[Jan Alter]

How about PM 8.0 for $12?

Sorry. I'm ignorant of any freeware options to do the job.


http://www.softwarediner.com/cgi-bi...hstart=0&template=Templates/SearchResult.html

 

[Grinder]

How about PM 8.0 for $12?

Sorry. I'm ignorant of any freeware options to do the job.


http://www.softwarediner.com/cgi-bi...hstart=0&template=Templates/SearchResult.html

That looks like an economical choice.

Do you know if I'll be able to copy the contents of a larger partition
into a smaller one, given that the larger partition is mostly empty?

 

[Jan Alter]

What I would do is to install PM onto the partition you want to move and
then resize it to something smaller than to where it will be copied, making
the leftover space free. That should make it no problem to be accepted by
the new hdd you're moving it to.

 

[Harkhof]

What I would do is to install PM onto the partition you want to move and
then resize it to something smaller than to where it will be copied,
making the leftover space free. That should make it no problem to be
accepted by the new hdd you're moving it to.

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or
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You could try:

http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/bootitng.html


It will resize and move partitions, create disk and partition images and
more. The trial version used to be fully functional for 30 days (and still
is as far as I know...), so feasibly, you could download the trail, use it
for your needs and forget it at no cost. If you decide you like it, it's
only $35 to register.

It's also highly touted in the XP groups. I've used it to "slide" partitions
of drives to the 4 kb boundry before converting from FAT 32 to NTFS, but
prefer Acronis True Image & Acronis Disk Director for other operations, but
they are more expensive (T.I. alone is $50.00).

Hark



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[kony]

That looks like an economical choice.

Do you know if I'll be able to copy the contents of a larger partition
into a smaller one, given that the larger partition is mostly empty?

Yes, Partition Magic can do that providing that the total
size of data on the larger partition is <= size of the
smaller partition. That is the main requirement, you can
even resize the destination partition even smaller (with PM
during use) so long as it's still big enough to hold the
data.

 

[Solei]

Well, if you have about 30 GB free space on your NTFS partition, where
installed XP located. It will be rather easy. At first using Disk
Director [http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/diskdirector],
you need shrink your XP partition (NTFS) to 10Gb. Then you need copy
this new partition to another 10Gb. (But don't forget you may have only
4 primary partitions, check it before copy!) I always use this
software, it is the best program I have ever paid for! I think it's the
best and easiest way to satisfy your requirement! Also, I must say, it
has free trial version, so you could try it.

 

[Solei]

Well, if you have about 30 GB free space on your NTFS partition, where
installed XP located. It will be rather easy. At first using Partition
Expert [http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/diskdirector],
you need shrink your XP partition (NTFS) to 10Gb. Then you need copy
this new partition to another 10Gb. (But don't forget you may have only
4 primary partitions, check it before copy!) I always use this
software, it is the best program I have ever paid for! I think it's the
best and easiest way to satisfy your requirement! Also, I must say, it
has free trial version, so you could try it.

 

[Kinoby]

I completely agree with Solei, if you need a good partition manager,
Acronis Disk Director is the right choice! Comparatively with Magic, it
is faster, more convenient and easier to use, but however cheaper.

 

[Bob]

I completely agree with Solei, if you need a good partition manager,
Acronis Disk Director is the right choice! Comparatively with Magic, it
is faster, more convenient and easier to use, but however cheaper.

But does it work?

I came into this thread late, so if someone has already mentioned
this, just hit the DEL key.

http://mbr.bigr.net/index.html

It's a DOS-based command-line partition manager with enough features
to get almost anyone in trouble. But it does work and it's save my
arse at times.


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helpless and victimized peoples beset by an ever-widening array of
"problems" ranging from civil wars to racial inequality that can be
solved only by an outside, all-knowing bureaucracy - the U.N. itself.
Their ultimate agenda is the disappearance of the sovereign nations
they claim to represent and the advent of a uniform global
government in which no one will be represented except the elites
themselves.

 

[Grinder]

Yes, Partition Magic can do that providing that the total
size of data on the larger partition is <= size of the
smaller partition. That is the main requirement, you can
even resize the destination partition even smaller (with PM
during use) so long as it's still big enough to hold the
data.

Just as an endnote to my question:

I did attempt to resize the larger partition such that I could copy it
to the smaller drive. Unfortunately, the PC froze up while doing the
resize, and hosed my partition.

Oh well, the only think lost was an XP install of questionable legitimacy.

 

[subin]

I google partition manager find some freeware bellow:

paragon http://www.paragon-software.com
I have not used,no comment!

easeus partition manager
I download from brother soft
http://www.brothersoft.com/easeus-partition-manager-51814.html

It worked OK, but failed when i tried to merge partition. so i have to allocated the free space to another partition. Partition magic may merge two partitions which will cost you $69.95

cute partition manager
http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/freeware/partition_download.shtml