Partition Magic 8 alternative for Vista?

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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
 
Jim McDonald said:
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
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You can resize partitions within Vista's Disk Management, so there's little
need for PM imho
 
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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Richard Urban
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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!
 
how often do you partition your disks?? this is something most normally do
once... before the os is installed.
 
You can resize partitions withinVista'sDisk Management, so there's little
need for PM imho
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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!)
 
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.
 
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...
 
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?
 
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