Free program for disk drive partitioning?

  • Thread starter Thread starter Chaos Master
  • Start date Start date
C

Chaos Master

Hello people.

Exists any free Windows program for doing partitions of hard disk drive?

(I want to be able to create partitions without having to destroy all my data.
Something like Partition Magic, but free).

[]s
 
Hello people.

Exists any free Windows program for doing partitions of hard disk drive?

(I want to be able to create partitions without having to destroy all my data.
Something like Partition Magic, but free).
Click to expand...

Creating a partition implies that there is no data? or did I miss something :-)
 
Hello people.

Exists any free Windows program for doing partitions of hard disk
drive?

(I want to be able to create partitions without having to destroy all
my data. Something like Partition Magic, but free).

[]s
Click to expand...

Presizer is a good choice. I have used it on a WinMe system and I lost
no data. PLEASE if you use it, RTFM (read the fine manual)! Google and
you will find it or seach this group and the URL will be with it.

--
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
El Gee

Did you hear the one about the dyslexic, agnostic, insomniac?
He would stay up late every night and wonder if there was a dog.


Remove yourhat to reply ... but it may take a while.
Best to go to www.mistergeek.com and reply from there.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 
derek / nul said:
Creating a partition implies that there is no data? or did I miss something :-)
Click to expand...

The OP wants to add or create a partition on a drive that is already
partitioned with data on it, ie: if he has one partiotn on his drive but
would like two partitions, using FDISK he would end up with two blank
partitions. He would like to end up with one partition with his
origional data on it, and another blank partition. This is, of course,
ony one scenario.

There are such programs for Linux that do this, the best of these can be
found on fix it and utilities disks. One such is
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

http://www.ranish.com/part/ has a really good reputation out there. I
haven't used this for some years but it worked for me when I needed it.

HK
 
Hello people.

Exists any free Windows program for doing partitions of hard disk
drive?

(I want to be able to create partitions without having to destroy
all my data. Something like Partition Magic, but free).
Click to expand...

Not a Windows app, but I am a fan of qtparted for partition work. I
have not used Partition Magic, but qtparted is supposed to be an open
source clone of it. It's available on many live CDs, notably Knoppix.
Smallest way I know of to get it is on System Recue CD,
<http://www.sysresccd.org/>, which is an awfully good thing to have
handy anyway. (It's a 102MB download -- qtparted may well be available
on smaller live disks.)
 
will said:
I could not recommend to use anything but
Click to expand...
<snip>

This is a freeware group. You don't seem to understand, here is the FAQ
for this group, have a read-

http://clients.net2000.com.au/~johnf/faq.html
Why would you use freeware on your
hard drive data?
Click to expand...

Why not? I see you have a freeware phobia. Are all freeware programs
inferior? Do you think, the more you pay the better the program?
I think you are in the wrong group with that attitude.
 
»Q« ([email protected]) said those last words:

Not a Windows app, but I am a fan of qtparted for partition work. I
have not used Partition Magic, but qtparted is supposed to be an open
source clone of it. It's available on many live CDs, notably Knoppix.
Smallest way I know of to get it is on System Recue CD,
<http://www.sysresccd.org/>, which is an awfully good thing to have
handy anyway. (It's a 102MB download -- qtparted may well be available
on smaller live disks.)
Click to expand...

Good... thanks. Ah, if I remembered where I did place my Knoppix CD... :D
 
bambam said:
<snip>

This is a freeware group. You don't seem to understand, here is the FAQ
for this group, have a read-

http://clients.net2000.com.au/~johnf/faq.html


Why not? I see you have a freeware phobia. Are all freeware programs
inferior? Do you think, the more you pay the better the program?
I think you are in the wrong group with that attitude.
Click to expand...

You can do all thinking you like.

Ok, I read the FAQ and thx, until that I though very good quality
inexpensive stuff would not annoy anyone too much.

'Why not?' is an all purpose answer and quite a meaningless question to a
question. You never actually answered mine.
Your other two questions are loaded...
Are all freeware programs inferior? no
Do I you think, the more I pay the better the program? no

Do I you think, the if I pay the program has a higher probablility of being
tested properly by the author? yes
Do I think there are some awesome freeware programs? yes
Do I think that that some software can blow any other out of the water? yes
Do I think that some software is always safer than others based on price? no
Do I think that some software is generally safer than others based on price?
yes
Do I think that all software is best tested first? yes
Do I think that most people can not test software properly? yes
Would I repartition a drive which had 38 SQL server customer databases on it
with freeware? no
Would I repartition a drive with nothing on it with freeware? probably not
 
[...]
Would I repartition a drive with nothing on it with freeware? probably
not
Click to expand...

Your answer was probably 'yes'.
or
Would I repartition a drive with 'something' on it with freeware? probably
not
 
will ([email protected]) said those last words:
Do I you think, the if I pay the program has a higher probablility of being
tested properly by the author? yes
Click to expand...

Nope. The live example is "Outlook Express" (part of Internet Explorer, which is
part of Windows, and you probably paid for Windows - unless you downloaded it
from a l33t w4r3z site :P ) here.
Do I think that some software is generally safer than others based on price?
yes
Click to expand...

So, why Windows software is more buggy than Linux software or just open-source
software?

Would I repartition a drive which had 38 SQL server customer databases on it
with freeware? no
Click to expand...

On this case, never. If I had 38 SQL Server databases on this hard drive, I
would do backups like a insane guy.
Would I repartition a drive with nothing on it with freeware? probably not
Click to expand...

I would repartition a drive with nothing on it, with any program. I would have
no data to lose anyway.

[]s
 
Chaos Master said:
will ([email protected]) said those last words:


Nope. The live example is "Outlook Express" (part of Internet Explorer, which is
part of Windows, and you probably paid for Windows - unless you downloaded it
from a l33t w4r3z site :P ) here.
Click to expand...

Statistically you would have to use a random sample of greater than 100,000
programs to prove or disprove this... I just stated my opinion
So, why Windows software is more buggy than Linux software or just open-source
software?
Click to expand...

That question you ask is definitive and also 'loaded' (i.e. a lawyer would
call it leading). Like I said in the previous post I would test it all
first. What I am talking about is my gut feeling nothing more. If we remove
the free software from our Windows OS what is left?

(OT)
Many people take this position against Microsoft but it is not a realistic
position and has little to do with what I was talking about. Assuming it is
a statement of your position then many people would disagree with you,
including me and most people do not even care to look at Linux. Every time I
install Linux or other distro's I end up formatting the drive again because
it was no good. Unfortunately, it will never catch up to windows and is
mainly 'sold' to perform specific tasks. The markets that remain for Linux,
Microsoft left for a reason. My boss is replacing our solid but buggy as
hell unix based vpn firewall (which cost $60,000) with dedicated bios driven
hardware which imho is what most people will do in the next few years. A
future version of windows (planned for 2006) will have it's api written for
direct x (winfx). Unfortunately (and I do really mean unfortunately) if ms
pull it off I do not think anyone will even be able to think about competing
against it.

http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist/may03_pie.gif 2003 OS's
http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist/may04_pie.gif 2004 OS's

I have been programming since 1981 and am constantly looking for useful
open-source projects, but rarely find any gems and when I do the are usually
unfinished works in progress or have glaring problems. There would be a lot
of very nice computer code that no one ever gets to see because it is not
open source (I would love to see the code for arj or LapLinks file delta
calculations). There is also a lot of nice free code (I am thinking of
things such as Info-Zip or the crc32 library from Delphi).
On this case, never. If I had 38 SQL Server databases on this hard drive, I
would do backups like a insane guy.
Click to expand...

We do backups automatically and they are not relevent in this case, if there
are problems you are unlikely to see them for weeks maybe even months.
Would I repartition a drive with nothing on it with freeware? probably
Click to expand...
not

I would repartition a drive with nothing on it, with any program. I would have
no data to lose anyway.

[]s
--
© Chaos Master. |"These wounds won't seem to heal
My Evanescence HP is at: | This pain is just too real
http://marreka.no-ip.com | There's just too much that time can't erase"
(most often offline... ) | -- Evanescence, "My Immortal"
Click to expand...
 
Back
Top