Partition software?

Korporativ

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I'm looking to create a new partition on a drive that previously only had a single partition without having to format. I'm wondering if partition magic has become a reliable program lately, or if there are other programs that might suit my needs?
 

Doh!

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Partition Magic always has been reliable as long as you do it right.:) They're other software such as partition commander, and another one by acronis. I've had no problems running Partition Magic for the past 6~7 years.
 

b4u

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Hi,

Well, I can share my experience ...

Once I installed Windows XP (about a year ago :)) on my new Western Digital 120Gb 8Mb cache hard drive. I formated it, with a single NTFS partition (I wanted 2 partitions, but I was going to change that latter).

After installing Windows XP, I installed Partition Magic 8, and re-partition to a 25Mb+94Mb both NTFS partitions (I don't remember if the numbers are correct, and I can't confirm them right now).

What I can tell you is that I had no problem at all, I played with PM8 for a while, to see what it could do, all the options included, etc ... and found no problem at all. I really liked the software.
 

Lonyo

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Only ever had 1 problem with Partition Magic 7, and that was just that it failed to copy a partition, but there was no harm done and everything works OK.

Never had it harm my ststem.
 

dakels

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I also agree with Partition Magic (8). I do alot of audio/video work and I use it constantly. I have never had a problem nor have I ever seen a reduction in speed of my partitions. It also does a good job of redistributing data and unfragmenting data to create a new partition from a aheavily used drive.
That and Norton Ghost make disk management very very simple and reliable for me. I have tried others but at home and wherever I can help it, I use Partition Magic.
 

Korporativ

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sounds like partition magic 8 is my solution for making a seporate partition for an unfragmented swap file. thanks for all the input. :)
 

dakels

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ya and btw I did what you are planning to do yesterday. I turned a 120gig main boot drive with XP, into a 40 gig for XP, and 60 gig data, and 20 gig scratch. It helps to have a seperate scratch space away from your OS partition. Scratch/swap spaces get fragmented easily.
 

Topher

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Look for Ranesh Partition Manager. It's done everything I've ever needed and then some. And it's freeware.
 

mcveigh

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Originally posted by: Topher
Look for Ranesh Partition Manager. It's done everything I've ever needed and then some. And it's freeware.

dpes it work on win2k server?
 

noxxic

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I used Acronis PartitionExpert a week ago to resize my primary NTFS partition in WinXP... Worked great, and amazingly, I didn't even have to reboot!
 

Topher

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Originally posted by: mcveigh
Originally posted by: Topher
Look for Ranesh Partition Manager. It's done everything I've ever needed and then some. And it's freeware.

dpes it work on win2k server?

Oops. Spelled it wrong. It should be Ranish Partition Manager. And yes, I believe it will work on win2k server.