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10-13-2008, 03:12 AM
|  | I said whisky not milk biotch!!! | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Alaska
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| | | Best partition software you use............
Hey guys, can't use partition magic 8.0 since I'm using Vista so just seeing what everyone else is using to partition your harddrive :yeahthat:
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10-13-2008, 03:31 AM
|  | The Tux | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Inside The StrafeRight.com Webserver.
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| | | Acronis Disk Director (I think we are on v10 right now) is by far the best partitioning product I have ever owned... It goes for about $50 retail, you can probably pick it up for about $30 from newegg as a downloadable program... A friend of mine recently got Acronis Disk Director & Acronis TrueImage as a combo package from newegg for about $35 i think...
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10-13-2008, 04:32 AM
|  | Here comes the BOOM! | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Texas
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| | | I'm a nub, I just use what Windows gives you to partition during install or with disk management tools via start menu. Unless you're talking about advanced partitioning (if that exists?).
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10-13-2008, 08:06 AM
|  | Time 2 Play | | Join Date: May 2003 Location: The Land of OZ
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| | I use the free and opensource GParted live CD |
10-13-2008, 09:43 AM
|  | om mani padme hum | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: All over Canada
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| | | Dude, Vista does all that. Search for "Computer Management" in the menu. Then click on that and go to "Disk Management". It's all there. |
10-13-2008, 11:14 AM
|  | sReckoner | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Delawhere?
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| | | start menu -> right click on "Computer" -> select "Manage" -> in the left-hand column under "Storage" click on "Disk Management" -> right click on the drive you wish to work on and have at it
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10-13-2008, 11:23 AM
|  | Note: Huge Success | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: New England
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| | | PM can change partitions being used on the fly without losing data... no intrinsic MS thing can do that AFAIK
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10-13-2008, 11:33 AM
|  | I couldn't hear anything | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Meadville, PA
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Originally Posted by VincentVega  PM can change partitions being used on the fly without losing data... no intrinsic MS thing can do that AFAIK | I think Vista can do non-destructive partition editing, but I also usually use Gparted for that kind of thing. |
10-13-2008, 11:55 AM
| | sReckoner | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Delawhere?
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Originally Posted by VincentVega PM can change partitions being used on the fly without losing data... no intrinsic MS thing can do that AFAIK | you can expand/shrink partitions (both formatted and unformatted) in vista...I think that's what you're talking about, correct me if I'm wrong...
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10-13-2008, 01:58 PM
|  | ALTMAN BE PRAISED | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Ohio
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| | | I use the MMC disk management plugin for most of the stuff. For everything else I use Acronis Disk Director Suite.
And, Vista is destructive to partition maps depending on whether you use GPT or MBR. If you do anything to a GPT drive in disk management, Vista will overwrite it with a MBR and completely destroy it... even if you just change the drive letter only.
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