Freeware version of Partitino Magic?

I think I once read here that there is a freeware imitation of
Partition Magic, or at least something cheaper.

My current need is to take a partition that's already in use and make
it smaller so that I can carve out a small partition from the space
that used to belong to it. Partition Magic would handle this, moving
all the data to one end or the other of the partition, making it
smaller, and creating the new one.

I have plenty of empty space in the current partition.

Do any of the cheaper ones do the same thing well? Programs that you
recommend?


Or can I use defrag to move everything to the beginning of the
partition? Even if I can do that, there is no way with some products
to then make the partition smaller, is there?

Thanks a lot.

mm wrote:

I think I once read here that there is a freeware imitation
of Partition Magic, or at least something cheaper.

There are a few free partitioners.

There are some earlier versions of True Image that are now free.

My current need is to take a partition that's already in use and
make it smaller so that I can carve out a small partition from the
space that used to belong to it. Partition Magic would handle this,
moving all the data to one end or the other of the partition,
making it smaller, and creating the new one.

I have plenty of empty space in the current partition.

Do any of the cheaper ones do the same thing well?

True Image does it a lot better, much less buggy.

Programs that you recommend?

Acronis True Image.

Or can I use defrag to move everything to the beginning of the partition?

Yes.

Even if I can do that, there is no way with some
products to then make the partition smaller, is there?

Correct.

mm wrote:
I think I once read here that there is a freeware imitation of
Partition Magic, or at least something cheaper.

My current need is to take a partition that's already in use and make
it smaller so that I can carve out a small partition from the space
that used to belong to it. Partition Magic would handle this, moving
all the data to one end or the other of the partition, making it
smaller, and creating the new one.

I have plenty of empty space in the current partition.

Do any of the cheaper ones do the same thing well? Programs that you
recommend?

I use the free gparted (Linux).

Or can I use defrag to move everything to the beginning of the
partition? Even if I can do that, there is no way with some products
to then make the partition smaller, is there?

If it is a supported filesystem, gparded should do it.

Homepage is he http://gparted.sourceforge.net/
and they have a bootable image (cd/USB key) as well.

In any case, do a full backup before resizing.
While gparted is not as crash-prone as the commercial
partition-magic, it can still mess up your partitions.

Arno

On 17 Aug 2009 01:03:08 GMT, Arno wrote:

mm wrote:
I think I once read here that there is a freeware imitation of
Partition Magic, or at least something cheaper.

My current need is to take a partition that's already in use and make
it smaller so that I can carve out a small partition from the space
that used to belong to it. Partition Magic would handle this, moving
all the data to one end or the other of the partition, making it
smaller, and creating the new one.

I have plenty of empty space in the current partition.

Do any of the cheaper ones do the same thing well? Programs that you
recommend?

I use the free gparted (Linux).

Or can I use defrag to move everything to the beginning of the
partition? Even if I can do that, there is no way with some products
to then make the partition smaller, is there?

If it is a supported filesystem, gparded should do it.

Homepage is he http://gparted.sourceforge.net/
and they have a bootable image (cd/USB key) as well.

In any case, do a full backup before resizing.
While gparted is not as crash-prone as the commercial
partition-magic, it can still mess up your partitions.

Arno

Thanks to you and Rod. I'm looking at both now.

you can use a bootitng CD or floppy. Boot from it, skip the install and
it goes into maintenance mode. Click on Partition work.

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