How do you move a partition?

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Peter said:
How do you move a partition from a drive to another?
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Do you wish to move all files & folders? If so then you can do it with
Explorer, or with xcopy.exe / robocopy.exe from a Command Prompt.
 
Peter

You cannot move a partition from one drive to another. You can move the
contents of a partition.

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Gerry said:
Peter

You cannot move a partition from one drive to another. You can move the
contents of a partition.
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Or you could use a third party partition manager.
I use EASEUS Partition manager (www.partition-tool.com)
Under the Wizards you can copy a partition or copy a disk.
The home edition is free
 
Mike Torello said:
Bad guess. Acronis can't clone a partition.
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Not a guess, as a glance through the interface tells you.

It definitely can clone both disks and partitions.

HTH
-pk
 
Patrick Keenan said:
Not a guess, as a glance through the interface tells you.

It definitely can clone both disks and partitions.

HTH
-pk
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I feel like such a freaking DUMMY! I've never looked for partition
cloning as I used "Automatic" and have only cloned an entire disk.

I see it now that I used a multi-partitioned disk as the source and
chose to manually set things.

Thanks to you and the other poster for setting me straight.
 
Bad guess. Acronis can't clone a partition.
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Statements about what Acronis can or can't do are likely to almost
always be wrong, for the simple reason that Acronis is not the name of
a program.

Acronis is the name of a company, and it's a company which makes
several different software products, each of which does different
things.
 
Mike Torello said:
I feel like such a freaking DUMMY! I've never looked for partition
cloning as I used "Automatic" and have only cloned an entire disk.

I see it now that I used a multi-partitioned disk as the source and
chose to manually set things.

Thanks to you and the other poster for setting me straight.
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Thanks for posting back concerning Acronis True Image...

I assure you I have made my share of errors
 
Hank said:
Has anyone ever told you that you can be a really pompous ass at
times?
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Actually, it IS a bit confusing, as Acronis has several related products,
and I'm not sure which one he was talking about. True Image? Disk
Director? Or something else?
 
Bill in Co. said:
Actually, it IS a bit confusing, as Acronis has several related products,
and I'm not sure which one he was talking about. True Image? Disk
Director? Or something else?
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From what I've seen, you are easily confused.
 
Has anyone ever told you that you can be a really pompous ass at
times?
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I know that Seagate has a copy of Acronis called the Discwizard which
can backup a partition but cannot clone. But you can always restore
that partition to another drive.
 
Bill in Co. said:
But not as full-featured, as I recall. (I wouldn't call it "better",
unless the sole criterion is cost).
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You talking about what you're read on the Internet again, or from
experience?
 
Mike said:
You talking about what you're read on the Internet again, or from
experience?
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I visited their website and read all about it, because I was almost
convinced to add it to my arsenal of tools over here, but it only has a
subset of some other features in Partition Magic.

If you really want to know more about it, go over to their web site and read
all about it. Still, for a freebie, it probably can't be beat. And yes, I
have experience with Partition Magic.
 
Bill in Co. said:
I visited their website and read all about it, because I was almost
convinced to add it to my arsenal of tools over here, but it only has a
subset of some other features in Partition Magic.

If you really want to know more about it, go over to their web site and read
all about it. Still, for a freebie, it probably can't be beat. And yes, I
have experience with Partition Magic.
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I was talking about EASEUS. Whatever.
 
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