Which partitioning utility?

[Fred]

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I need to resize the one partition and add 2-3 more partitions on a 20GB
hard drive.

Only program I used several years ago was Partition Magic which seemed
to work well and was easy to use, but the hard drive died only 1 month
into a 3 year warranty-not sure if PM had anything to do with it, but I
doubt it.

I need to transfer the data off of some smaller hard drives, like 1-8 gb
onto this larger drive. One of them, I will have to deinstall WD overlay
program (can't recall the name) for older bios.

What program should I use that is a) fairly easy, small learning curve,
b) is most portable-can easily be installed on a wide range of machines.
Does not consume large amounts of system resources and, prolly most of
all is reliable and safe.

If possible, I'd prefer something that doesn't use some special overlay
on the drive such that the drive becomes dependent on that one program.
I cannot remember, but I think you cannot resize partitions with Fdisk
right?

Thanks for your suggestions. My main newserver is down, so I might not
be able to thank those that reply right away, so I thank you here now.

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[Ge]

I need to resize the one partition and add 2-3 more partitions on a 20GB
hard drive.

Only program I used several years ago was Partition Magic which seemed
to work well and was easy to use, but the hard drive died only 1 month
into a 3 year warranty-not sure if PM had anything to do with it, but I
doubt it.

I'm using PM, and so far it did all partition tasks I needed to do. You can
create a boot floppy (plus a second program floppy) that allows you to do
partition maintenance on pretty much any PC. You probably can put the
contents of these two floppies on a CD; I've always thought about doing it,
but the frequency of use is not high enough to really motivate me

There's also a Linux-based boot CD project http://ebcd.pcministry.com/
It does pretty much all of this, too, and then some -- but of course only
when booting from it, not like PM through a Windows interface. But if you
want something free that works on all PCs and don't mind booting into your
partitioning program -- this is it.

Gerhard