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Old 04-07-2008, 11:01 PM
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Default Free partition software?

Does anyone know of any good free partition manager? like partition magic, but free. As some of you may rememebr a while ago I came saying I had a problem with a hard drive thinking some of the drive was unalocated when it should be like that. So what I am thinking about trying is merging the partitions to see if i can then get the data off, unless anyone else knows of a better way to do it.

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Old 05-07-2008, 02:53 AM
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Default Free partition software?

Give Partition Logic - http://partitionlogic.org.uk/ - a try.
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Default Free partition software?

I might try it, however I'll wait to see if anyone else has any ideas, as I will probably only have 1 try at this.
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Default Free partition software?

The only software I would trust is Partition Magic. Never heard of Partition Logic before but it looks OK.

I got my copy of Partition Magic on a CD that came with a Computer Shopper magazine, they quite regularly bundle it with the magazine. Might be worth having a look, or even on an older CD from a magazine.
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Default Free partition software?

Partition Logic has quite a few limitations :

LIMITATIONS
Partition logic has the following limitations:
Does not work with some SATA hard disks
No hardware support for non-USB SCSI hard disks
Supports only DOS/Windows-style MBR partition tables (used on nearly all IBM PC-compatibles). No support for Sun or BSD disk labels, or EFI/GPT tables used on Itanium and Intel Mac platforms.
Cannot format partitions as NTFS or EXT3. Can format as FAT (12/16/32), EXT2, and Linux swap.
Cannot resize FAT or EXT filesystems. Can resize NTFS (Windows XP) and Linux swap.
No hardware support for serial mice
No hardware support for PCMCIA
These limitations are intended to be fixed in future releases.

Partition Magic was always my favourite, but it hasn't been upgraded by Symantec (typical) and sadly doesn't work in Vista.

If you consider purchasing, Acronis Disk Director is excellent and works with XP & Vista just fine.
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Default Free partition software?

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Partition Magic was always my favourite, but it hasn't been upgraded by Symantec (typical) and sadly doesn't work in Vista.

If you consider purchasing, Acronis Disk Director is excellent and works with XP & Vista just fine.
I didn't realise that, never actually tried to use it on Vista.

Acronis is also very reputable software.
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Default Free partition software?

Ok, well thank you all, and it seems I don't rearly want to use Partition Logic because of all the limitations, But I may look into buying Partition magic then, or maybe Acronis, depending on prices.
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Default Free partition software?

I'm a big fan of Disk Director and would have sent him down that path, but he asked for free software.
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