Free Partition Magic ???

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Is there any free (or almost) reliable substitute for Partition Magic?


Morgan O.
 
Morgan Ohlson said:
Key: change Partitions management hdd ´hard drive¡


Is there any free (or almost) reliable substitute for Partition Magic?


Morgan O.
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Ranish Partition manager?
 
Key: change Partitions management hdd ´hard drive¡


Is there any free (or almost) reliable substitute for Partition Magic?
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BootIT NG. Very good. Full function, free for 30-days. If you only
need it for a one-time project, they have not objection to it's use.

Google: bootitng
 
BootIT NG. Very good. Full function, free for 30-days. If you
only need it for a one-time project, they have not objection to
it's use.
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ISTR that if you launch BootIt from the floppy disk then the 30 day
trial period does not seem to apply.

Agree with you that it is a very good program.

Best to warn OP that BootIt not only acts as a partition manager
(which he wants) but it also acts as a boot manager (which may be a
bit too technical for new users).
 
Franklin said:
ISTR that if you launch BootIt from the floppy disk then the 30 day
trial period does not seem to apply.

Agree with you that it is a very good program.

Best to warn OP that BootIt not only acts as a partition manager
(which he wants) but it also acts as a boot manager (which may be a
bit too technical for new users).
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the boot manager is totally optional. in my case, BootItNG was on CD,
so my only option for boot management was to install to a primary
partition. just click cancel (or whatever) and go into partition work.
the nice thing is it's one of the cheapest ways to resize NTFS (almost
mandatory if you only have an XP restore disc).

i'm happy with BootIt and never been tempted to purchase Partition Magic
or mess with ntfsresize().

michael
 
ISTR that if you launch BootIt from the floppy disk then the 30 day
trial period does not seem to apply.
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I hadn't noticed that as I only needed to use it one time, when I
bought a new computer several years ago and needed to do a one-time
repartitioning without loosing data.

Agree with you that it is a very good program.
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Yes, I thought so too. I understand that it has continued to improve
over the past few years. At that time I thought it was much easier to
used than Ranish.
Best to warn OP that BootIt not only acts as a partition manager
(which he wants) but it also acts as a boot manager (which may be a
bit too technical for new users).
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Yes, good point. I forgot about that.
 
ISTR that if you launch BootIt from the floppy disk then the 30 day
the boot manager is totally optional. in my case, BootItNG was on CD,
so my only option for boot management was to install to a primary
partition. just click cancel (or whatever) and go into partition work.
the nice thing is it's one of the cheapest ways to resize NTFS (almost
mandatory if you only have an XP restore disc).

i'm happy with BootIt and never been tempted to purchase Partition Magic
or mess with ntfsresize().
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Booting from one of the recent Mandrake Linux CDs will allow you to
resize NTFS as well - I use it all the time. I use 9.1 and 10 and it
works great!
 
Booting from one of the recent Mandrake Linux CDs will allow you to
resize NTFS as well - I use it all the time. I use 9.1 and 10 and it
works great!
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Specifically what app lets you resize NTFS partitions?
 
»Q« said:
Specifically what app lets you resize NTFS partitions?
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Boot to the first CD as if you were going to install Mandrake. Select
manual partitioning when you get to that point and then resize it. When
it's done resizing, just reboot your machine rather than proceeding with
the install. Not sure specifically what app it is but it works great.
 
Boot to the first CD as if you were going to install Mandrake. Select
manual partitioning when you get to that point and then resize it. When
it's done resizing, just reboot your machine rather than proceeding with
the install. Not sure specifically what app it is but it works great.
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Try qtparted, a Partition Magic clone for linux. It is found on the
bootable System Rescue Cd that can be downloaded (iso image) from:

http://www.sysresccd.org/

I've been using it the last couple of days to shrink the ntfs partitions
of Windows 2000 installs on a bunch of machines to make room for a fat32
partition for Win98 in a school lab.

Has a GUI so it is simple to use (I haven't any experience with linux.)
The cd has other many other utilities that look useful with hd other
than linux format.


Art
 
ISTR that if you launch BootIt from the floppy disk then the 30 day
trial period does not seem to apply.

Agree with you that it is a very good program.

Best to warn OP that BootIt not only acts as a partition manager
(which he wants) but it also acts as a boot manager (which may be a
bit too technical for new users).
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Some time back when I was on DOS IRC there was a steady stream of
users logging in for help after using RANISH and trashing their
drives. RANISH is no picnic to use from what I have observed.

I use BooitNG myself. :-)


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A. Mercer said:
Try qtparted, a Partition Magic clone for linux. It is found on the
bootable System Rescue Cd that can be downloaded (iso image) from:

http://www.sysresccd.org/

I've been using it the last couple of days to shrink the ntfs partitions
of Windows 2000 installs on a bunch of machines to make room for a fat32
partition for Win98 in a school lab.

Has a GUI so it is simple to use (I haven't any experience with linux.)
The cd has other many other utilities that look useful with hd other
than linux format.

Art
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Last time I tried QTPARTED from the sysresccd.org site (Kernel 2.4.26,
Version 0.2.14) it wouldn't work for NTFS partitions.

Grizzly Bear
 
Last time I tried QTPARTED from the sysresccd.org site (Kernel 2.4.26,
Version 0.2.14) it wouldn't work for NTFS partitions.
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You should have done something wrong because it does work fine, I can
also confirm.

Actually quite many softwares use internally the NTFS resizer of
QTParted (ntfsresize): Mandrake, SUSE, Novell Linux Desktop, Debian
Sarge, IBM's Enterprise Volume Management System, etc. There is a long
list of free, non-destructive partitioners, NTFS resizers at:
http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/mlf/ezaz/ntfsresize.html#example

Boot one of the free softwares from a CD, DVD, floppy, USB-key,
network and use the intuitive GUI just like in case of PM.
 
You should have done something wrong because it does work fine, I can
also confirm.
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it must be a newer feature (relatively) because last time i checked
parted i didn't see it either (QTparted is just a front-end plus parted
AFAIK).
Actually quite many softwares use internally the NTFS resizer of
QTParted (ntfsresize): Mandrake, SUSE, Novell Linux Desktop, Debian
Sarge, IBM's Enterprise Volume Management System, etc.
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yeah there are several options now. at the time i needed resizing
(early 2003), the main options were ASP linux disc 1, Acronis, Parition
Magic, ntfsresize, and BootItNG. i'm glad there is more freeware now
that can accomplish the task. i don't need really fancy software, just
a one time deal for resizing, then use GRUB or other as boot manager.

a couple of times, i had wished to resize UFS and EXT3.

michael


There is a long
 
it must be a newer feature (relatively) because last time i
checked parted i didn't see it either (QTparted is just a
front-end plus parted AFAIK).
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Yeah, it is a frontend for parted (actually libparted, I think). The
documentation at parted's homepages is out-of-date, all from 2002; it
says it supports only detections of NTFS partitions, but that's clearly
no longer true. I think I have a very recent version of parted. If I
do, I'll take a look at the man pages and see what it can do now.
 
xmp said:
it must be a newer feature (relatively) because last time i checked
parted i didn't see it either (QTparted is just a front-end plus parted
AFAIK).
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QTParted is not just a front-end to parted. Parted can not resize NTFS
but QTParted do can because it uses the external ntfsresize utility.
See the features at http://qtparted.sourceforge.net/features.en.html
yeah there are several options now. at the time i needed resizing
(early 2003), the main options were ASP linux disc 1, Acronis, Parition
Magic, ntfsresize, and BootItNG.
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At that time qtparted couldn't handle it, indeed.
a couple of times, i had wished to resize UFS and EXT3.
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At least Diskdrake, YAST, EVMS, GParted and resize2fs can resize EXT3.
All are free. Parted and QTParted can not resize EXT3 currently.
 
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