Best Partition Editing Program?

[chazdraves]

Well, I tried Ubuntu (again) only to decide it's still not quite where I need it to be to jump from Windows. I would like to remove the partition I created now, but I'm finding myself stumped. I can't seem to get GParted to work from a LiveCD, and I would like something that runs within Windows. Paragon Partition Manager looks like it would work perfectly, but you have to purchase it to do the formatting. I just need to do this once, so I don't want to drop any money. I think the Ubuntu disk lets you do this, but I can't seem to find it and don't want to wait for another 690MB download.

Help? Thanks!
- Chaz

 

[Nothinman]

You should be able to remove the partition from the Windows disk management stuff, although you'll have to use the Windows recovery console to reset the MBR to the basic MS one in order to boot if you choose to install GRUB to your MBR.

 

[NoelS]

chazdraves,

The best way to re-partition and not use any data is to use a program like Partition Magic. If you decide to go that way, try to find an older version of Partition Magic, like version 8, not through Symantec. It will be cheaper and not so bloated with Symantec stuff... Maybe you could download a trial...

Ubuntu can be hard to get rid of. You really need to see the partitions well to see which is which. I tried it once and had to recover XP with a backup image to get rid of Ubuntu.

Good luck,

Noel
Noel

 

[Nothinman]

If you decide to go that way, try to find an older version of Partition Magic, like version 8, not through Symantec.

While I've had good luck with PQ8 in the past I don't think I'd trust it now. There were subtle changes to NTFS with NT4 SP4 and I don't remember which came out first. That and it's a PITA to get drivers for DOS working these days.

Ubuntu can be hard to get rid of.

No it's not. You just have to delete the appropriate partitions, of which there's only 2 by default, and reset the MBR back to default with the Windows Recovery Console.

 

[sourceninja]

I used the gparrted live CD, removed partition, then grew the ntfs partition to fill up that space. Finally rebooted into recovery mode using the XP live cd and did a fixmbr.

 

[chazdraves]

Well, I just went the simple way: I buggered it up trying to do it with the Ubuntu disc and ended up re-formatting

So... Ironically, now I'm all-Ubuntu. I just have to figure out how to get wireless working consistently :?

Those programs (for example PQ8) really seemed like a good deal, but I was hoping to find something free like GParted in Linux. Regardless, thanks for the help guys. Hopefully this thread helps the next guy!

- Chaz