I would be grateful for any advice as to the best partitioning program, free
or otherwise. Will be partitioning a hard disk. Thank you.

Are you trying to change the system or boot partitions, or non
destructively extend/shrink a partition? If not you can just use the
built-in disk management tool, to start the tool enter diskmgmt.msc in
the start menu run box.

John

bob wrote:
> I would be grateful for any advice as to the best partitioning program, free
> or otherwise. Will be partitioning a hard disk. Thank you.
>
>
>

bob wrote:
> I would be grateful for any advice as to the best partitioning program, free
> or otherwise. Will be partitioning a hard disk. Thank you.
>
>
>

Are you talking about partitioning a blank drive or a drive with the OS
already installed?

C

"bob" <bob525@comcast.net> wrote in message
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>I would be grateful for any advice as to the best partitioning program,
>free
> or otherwise. Will be partitioning a hard disk. Thank you.
>
>
>
It depends. If it's a blank drive, you can use the manufacturer's software
or Windows Disk Management.
If it's a drive that's in use and you don't want to lose the information
that's on it, use something like EASEUS Partition Master (free)
http://www.partition-tool.com/personal.htm
or Acronis Disk Director Suite (~$50)
http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing...titioning.html
..

Google can give you suggestions and reviews: http://tinyurl.com/ykhte56

SC Tom

Partitioning a drive with OS alrady installed (want to shrink the partition
with the OS and have another partition for data).

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> bob wrote:
>> I would be grateful for any advice as to the best partitioning program,
>> free
>> or otherwise. Will be partitioning a hard disk. Thank you.
>>
>>
>>
>
> Are you talking about partitioning a blank drive or a drive with the OS
> already installed?
>
> C

bob wrote:
> Partitioning a drive with OS alrady installed (want to shrink the partition
> with the OS and have another partition for data).

I would use a Linux distro Live CD that comes with the tool called
Gparted. You can get one free at http://www.ubuntu.com/ Be sure and
clean up your C drive and defrag it before proceeding.

C
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> "C" <nospamming@please.com.invalid> wrote in message
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>> bob wrote:
>>> I would be grateful for any advice as to the best partitioning program,
>>> free
>>> or otherwise. Will be partitioning a hard disk. Thank you.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Are you talking about partitioning a blank drive or a drive with the OS
>> already installed?
>>
>> C
>
>

bob wrote:
> I would be grateful for any advice as to the best partitioning program, free
> or otherwise. Will be partitioning a hard disk. Thank you.
>

My only bit of advice, would be to back up the original disk. Some
of the free solutions might not be 100% reliable. Even the
commercial partition management solutions have managed to blow
up the occasional disk. If the info on the disk is replaceable,
then don't worry about it.

There is a GParted LiveCD here. The copy I have is around 100MB in size.
It is an ISO9660 file, for burning with Nero. I haven't actually
tried to do anything with it yet, but I did try booting it and
it seemed to boot OK.

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php

The feature set is listed here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gparted

Paul

On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:32:34 -0600, "bob" <bob525@comcast.net> wrote:

> I would be grateful for any advice as to the best partitioning program, free
> or otherwise. Will be partitioning a hard disk. Thank you.


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bob wrote:
> I would be grateful for any advice as to the best partitioning program, free
> or otherwise. Will be partitioning a hard disk. Thank you.
>
>
>

Bob: Download freeware called Easeus Partition Mgr. It is so easy to use
you won't believe it. I've used others but Easeus is easiest.

I have shrunk the win system partition on 2 computers with this. One was
XP and one was W2000.

The only drawback is that you must install it before running it. The
Gparted is a cd that boots and runs from the cd.


Sardine