Partition Magic 8 alternative for Vista?

[Jim McDonald]

Does anybody know if PM 8 and/or Acronis Disk Director will soon
support Windows Vista?

Is there a good alternative disk partitioning software that supports
Vista right now?

Is Vista's disk manager just as good as the above third party
products? At first glance VDM looks a bit limited.

After upgrading to Vista I was disappointed to learn here that PM 8
doesn't support it. I've been using PM successfully for years...

TIA

 

[Jon]

Does anybody know if PM 8 and/or Acronis Disk Director will soon
support Windows Vista?

Is there a good alternative disk partitioning software that supports
Vista right now?

Is Vista's disk manager just as good as the above third party
products? At first glance VDM looks a bit limited.

After upgrading to Vista I was disappointed to learn here that PM 8
doesn't support it. I've been using PM successfully for years...

TIA

You can resize partitions within Vista's Disk Management, so there's little
need for PM imho

 

[Richard Urban]

If you create the Disk Director 10 boot CD from within Windows XP, and boot
the computer from that CD to do your partition work, Disk Director does just
fine.

I try to stay away from anything Symantec/Norton with a vengeance. Since
they purchased PowerQuest they have allowed Partition Magic to languish and
rot.

Gee, what else is new. They do that to every product/company they buy out
(remember PcTools?). It was much better that Norton Utilities/SystemWorks
(or whatever they are calling it this year) ever was or will be.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
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Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Troy McClure]

how often do you partition your disks?? this is something most normally do
once... before the os is installed.

 

[DPat]

You can resize partitions withinVista'sDisk Management, so there's little
need for PM imho

Not so - I need to expand the size of my vista partition - how do I do
that in vista (the free space I create from reducing another is after
partition 2!)

 

[R. McCarty]

Acronis Disk Director 10.0 (Build 2, 117) works with Vista NTFS
partitions. I mainly use the Bootable media disk ( Not within Vista )
and have used it on a number of Vista installations. Sometimes I'll
have to run Disk Director in it's "Safe Mode" to access external USB
drives - otherwise it works very well.

 

[Sly Dog]

It's a little tricky...

You have to move all your data off the second partition and then delete it -
thereby creating an unallocated space.
THEN extend your VISTA partition, and then re-establish your second
partition and move your data back onto it.

Partition Magic certainly was efficient...

 

[DPat]

It's a little tricky...

You have to move all your data off the secondpartitionand then delete it -
thereby creating an unallocated space.
THEN extend yourVISTApartition, and then re-establish your secondpartitionand move your data back onto it.

PartitionMagic certainly was efficient...







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Jon thanks for this, one more question...

Do you think I can move the 2nd partition (using PM8) such that the
free space is then at the end of the Vista partition and then extend
said Vista partition?