OT Freeware Partition software

"Tom Scales" wrote in message
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I think I should have been more clear.

I need to NON-DESTRUCTIVELY repartition.


http://www.partition-tool.com/

I've used it and it works a treat; just download the Home Edition.

S.Lewis wrote:
"Tom Scales" wrote in message
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I need to repartition a boot drive on an XP Pro laptop. Any suggestions
of freeware to do it?

Thanks,

Tom



I take it you don't have a copy of Partition Magic around - or you wouldn't
have asked. ?


Personally...this is just my opinion...for something as vital as disk
operations, I would not use software from someone who has no financial
incentive to make sure it works properly. I realize others feel differently.

Of the for-pay partition managers, I use Acronis Disk Director. Then
again, I hardly pay anything for software because I wait until it's
offered for free or almost free (after rebates, natch.) Let's see...the
last time I actually paid for anti-malware software was during the
Clinton administration.

But I digress. Symantec seems to have abandoned Partition Magic, but I
have no love for Symantec anyway. If you don't need a lot of hand
holding, BootItNG is excellent software and very reasonably priced as well.

Daddy

Daddy

"Daddy" wrote in message
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S.Lewis wrote:
"Tom Scales" wrote in message
news:CEF8626A61DA4D1A8D765080D166E086@M2010...
I need to repartition a boot drive on an XP Pro laptop. Any suggestions
of freeware to do it?

Thanks,

Tom



I take it you don't have a copy of Partition Magic around - or you
wouldn't have asked. ?
Personally...this is just my opinion...for something as vital as disk
operations, I would not use software from someone who has no financial
incentive to make sure it works properly. I realize others feel
differently.

Of the for-pay partition managers, I use Acronis Disk Director. Then
again, I hardly pay anything for software because I wait until it's
offered for free or almost free (after rebates, natch.) Let's see...the
last time I actually paid for anti-malware software was during the Clinton
administration.

But I digress. Symantec seems to have abandoned Partition Magic, but I
have no love for Symantec anyway. If you don't need a lot of hand holding,
BootItNG is excellent software and very reasonably priced as well.

Daddy

Daddy


I'm not a huge fan of PM, but I have a couple of older versions that I use
only when other options aren't ideal.

I've caused some hellacious messes with PM experiments in the past. It was
great.

S.Lewis wrote:
"Daddy" wrote in message
...

S.Lewis wrote:
"Tom Scales" wrote in message
news:CEF8626A61DA4D1A8D765080D166E086@M2010...
I need to repartition a boot drive on an XP Pro laptop. Any suggestions
of freeware to do it?

Thanks,

Tom


I take it you don't have a copy of Partition Magic around - or you
wouldn't have asked. ?
Personally...this is just my opinion...for something as vital as disk
operations, I would not use software from someone who has no financial
incentive to make sure it works properly. I realize others feel
differently.

Of the for-pay partition managers, I use Acronis Disk Director. Then
again, I hardly pay anything for software because I wait until it's
offered for free or almost free (after rebates, natch.) Let's see...the
last time I actually paid for anti-malware software was during the Clinton
administration.

But I digress. Symantec seems to have abandoned Partition Magic, but I
have no love for Symantec anyway. If you don't need a lot of hand holding,
BootItNG is excellent software and very reasonably priced as well.

Daddy

Daddy


I'm not a huge fan of PM, but I have a couple of older versions that I use
only when other options aren't ideal.

I've caused some hellacious messes with PM experiments in the past. It was
great.



Speaking of Partition Magic...

I still have my PowerQuest Partition Magic v.8 install CD. Even have the
update to version 8.1.

The reason I removed it in favor of (Acronis) Disk Director is that I
read somewhere that the original PowerQuest software, not having been
updated for years, may not be compatible with newer hardware. Is this
correct, or was I having a 'senior moment'?

Daddy

Daddy wrote:

S.Lewis wrote:
"Daddy" wrote in message
...
S.Lewis wrote:
"Tom Scales" wrote in message
news:CEF8626A61DA4D1A8D765080D166E086@M2010...
I need to repartition a boot drive on an XP Pro laptop. Any suggestions
of freeware to do it?

Thanks,

Tom

I take it you don't have a copy of Partition Magic around - or you
wouldn't have asked. ?
Personally...this is just my opinion...for something as vital as disk
operations, I would not use software from someone who has no financial
incentive to make sure it works properly. I realize others feel
differently.

Of the for-pay partition managers, I use Acronis Disk Director. Then
again, I hardly pay anything for software because I wait until it's
offered for free or almost free (after rebates, natch.) Let's see...the
last time I actually paid for anti-malware software was during the Clinton
administration.

But I digress. Symantec seems to have abandoned Partition Magic, but I
have no love for Symantec anyway. If you don't need a lot of hand holding,
BootItNG is excellent software and very reasonably priced as well.

Daddy

Daddy

I'm not a huge fan of PM, but I have a couple of older versions that I use
only when other options aren't ideal.

I've caused some hellacious messes with PM experiments in the past. It was
great.



Speaking of Partition Magic...

I still have my PowerQuest Partition Magic v.8 install CD. Even have the
update to version 8.1.

The reason I removed it in favor of (Acronis) Disk Director is that I
read somewhere that the original PowerQuest software, not having been
updated for years, may not be compatible with newer hardware. Is this
correct, or was I having a 'senior moment'?

Daddy
It's newer operating systems that it may not be compatible with. Norton
still sells it, but lists only up to XP for compatible systems. Whether
it can handle Vista's NTFS is unclear.

"Pen" wrote in message
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Daddy wrote:

S.Lewis wrote:
"Daddy" wrote in message
...
S.Lewis wrote:
"Tom Scales" wrote in message
news:CEF8626A61DA4D1A8D765080D166E086@M2010...
I need to repartition a boot drive on an XP Pro laptop. Any
suggestions
of freeware to do it?

Thanks,

Tom

I take it you don't have a copy of Partition Magic around - or you
wouldn't have asked. ?
Personally...this is just my opinion...for something as vital as disk
operations, I would not use software from someone who has no financial
incentive to make sure it works properly. I realize others feel
differently.

Of the for-pay partition managers, I use Acronis Disk Director. Then
again, I hardly pay anything for software because I wait until it's
offered for free or almost free (after rebates, natch.) Let's see...the
last time I actually paid for anti-malware software was during the
Clinton administration.

But I digress. Symantec seems to have abandoned Partition Magic, but I
have no love for Symantec anyway. If you don't need a lot of hand
holding, BootItNG is excellent software and very reasonably priced as
well.

Daddy

Daddy

I'm not a huge fan of PM, but I have a couple of older versions that I
use only when other options aren't ideal.

I've caused some hellacious messes with PM experiments in the past. It
was great.


Speaking of Partition Magic...

I still have my PowerQuest Partition Magic v.8 install CD. Even have the
update to version 8.1.

The reason I removed it in favor of (Acronis) Disk Director is that I
read somewhere that the original PowerQuest software, not having been
updated for years, may not be compatible with newer hardware. Is this
correct, or was I having a 'senior moment'?

Daddy
It's newer operating systems that it may not be compatible with. Norton
still sells it, but lists only up to XP for compatible systems. Whether
it can handle Vista's NTFS is unclear.

I used V 8.0 to partition my Vista machine.....no problem

"olfart" wrote in message
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"Pen" wrote in message
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Daddy wrote:

S.Lewis wrote:
"Daddy" wrote in message
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S.Lewis wrote:
"Tom Scales" wrote in message
news:CEF8626A61DA4D1A8D765080D166E086@M2010...
I need to repartition a boot drive on an XP Pro laptop. Any
suggestions
of freeware to do it?

Thanks,

Tom

I take it you don't have a copy of Partition Magic around - or you
wouldn't have asked. ?
Personally...this is just my opinion...for something as vital as disk
operations, I would not use software from someone who has no financial
incentive to make sure it works properly. I realize others feel
differently.

Of the for-pay partition managers, I use Acronis Disk Director. Then
again, I hardly pay anything for software because I wait until it's
offered for free or almost free (after rebates, natch.) Let's
see...the last time I actually paid for anti-malware software was
during the Clinton administration.

But I digress. Symantec seems to have abandoned Partition Magic, but I
have no love for Symantec anyway. If you don't need a lot of hand
holding, BootItNG is excellent software and very reasonably priced as
well.

Daddy

Daddy

I'm not a huge fan of PM, but I have a couple of older versions that I
use only when other options aren't ideal.

I've caused some hellacious messes with PM experiments in the past. It
was great.


Speaking of Partition Magic...

I still have my PowerQuest Partition Magic v.8 install CD. Even have the
update to version 8.1.

The reason I removed it in favor of (Acronis) Disk Director is that I
read somewhere that the original PowerQuest software, not having been
updated for years, may not be compatible with newer hardware. Is this
correct, or was I having a 'senior moment'?

Daddy
It's newer operating systems that it may not be compatible with. Norton
still sells it, but lists only up to XP for compatible systems. Whether
it can handle Vista's NTFS is unclear.

I used V 8.0 to partition my Vista machine.....no problem




^^^ This is why I pay exorbitant annual fees to be part of this newsgroup.
^^^

That's good info to know.

Pen wrote:
Daddy wrote:

S.Lewis wrote:
"Daddy" wrote in message
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S.Lewis wrote:
"Tom Scales" wrote in message
news:CEF8626A61DA4D1A8D765080D166E086@M2010...
I need to repartition a boot drive on an XP Pro laptop. Any
suggestions
of freeware to do it?

Thanks,

Tom

I take it you don't have a copy of Partition Magic around - or you
wouldn't have asked. ?
Personally...this is just my opinion...for something as vital as
disk operations, I would not use software from someone who has no
financial incentive to make sure it works properly. I realize others
feel differently.

Of the for-pay partition managers, I use Acronis Disk Director. Then
again, I hardly pay anything for software because I wait until it's
offered for free or almost free (after rebates, natch.) Let's
see...the last time I actually paid for anti-malware software was
during the Clinton administration.

But I digress. Symantec seems to have abandoned Partition Magic, but
I have no love for Symantec anyway. If you don't need a lot of hand
holding, BootItNG is excellent software and very reasonably priced
as well.

Daddy

Daddy

I'm not a huge fan of PM, but I have a couple of older versions that
I use only when other options aren't ideal.

I've caused some hellacious messes with PM experiments in the past.
It was great.


Speaking of Partition Magic...

I still have my PowerQuest Partition Magic v.8 install CD. Even have
the update to version 8.1.

The reason I removed it in favor of (Acronis) Disk Director is that I
read somewhere that the original PowerQuest software, not having been
updated for years, may not be compatible with newer hardware. Is this
correct, or was I having a 'senior moment'?

Daddy
It's newer operating systems that it may not be compatible with. Norton
still sells it, but lists only up to XP for compatible systems. Whether
it can handle Vista's NTFS is unclear.

I actually 'wrote' too soon.

Symantec has not updated the original PQ version since 2003, and has not
announced plans to update it in the future. Partition Magic's
limitations are described in the technical support part of Symantec's
website.

Daddy

On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 02:08:40 GMT, "Tom Scales"
wrote:

I need to repartition a boot drive on an XP Pro laptop. Any suggestions
of freeware to do it?

Thanks,

Tom

Tom, I imagine by now, with all the replies in this thread, you have
the solution. I'm surprised tho that you don't own or have this type
software in your software tool box. It's not needed often but when
you do need it, this software is invaluable. In any case, if you go
the commercial route, I'd recommend Acronis from my own experiences.
Whatever you decide to use, keep it handy for all your other pc's and
laptops because sooner or later, you'll need it again.

-----Original Message-----
From: RnR ]
Posted At: Thursday, November 13, 2008 10:02 PM
Posted To: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
Conversation: OT Freeware Partition software
Subject: OT Freeware Partition software

On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 02:08:40 GMT, "Tom Scales"
wrote:

I need to repartition a boot drive on an XP Pro laptop. Any
suggestions
of freeware to do it?

Thanks,

Tom

Tom, I imagine by now, with all the replies in this thread, you have
the solution. I'm surprised tho that you don't own or have this type
software in your software tool box. It's not needed often but when
you do need it, this software is invaluable. In any case, if you go
the commercial route, I'd recommend Acronis from my own experiences.
Whatever you decide to use, keep it handy for all your other pc's and
laptops because sooner or later, you'll need it again.

I own Partition Magic. Just couldn't put my hands on the disk!