Free Partition Resizing tool?

[ddebacker]

Good morning,

Is there any partition resizing tool that is available for free and that can resize NTFS partition without data loss (like Partition Magic does)?

I am not looking for any demo version but more an open source or freeware.

Thanks in advance,

David.

[DigeratiPrime]

gparted is the only one I know of, I havent tried it though.

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/

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

[pmshah]

BootITNg will do it. It is not free but a fully functional try before buy shareware.

[allen2]

Systemrescuecd has most open source tools for partition manipulations. It works well.

[eidenk]

Go at a big newsagent that's got all the PC magazines once a month and within a year you'll find for sure a free copy of one or another excellent professional Partition Manager on the cover CDs.

I have got Paragon Partition Manager 2000 that I got this way in 2002 probably. And today I still have no need for another one.

It's an absolute marvel.

Otherwise you could try Swissknife, it is free but I have personally never used it so I can't comment on it :

http://www.compuapps.com/download/Swissknife/swissknife.htm

[Jito463]

Personally, I wouldn't trust my data to a "freeware" partition resizer. Technically, though, I don't trust it to a pay-for one either. I always do a Ghost image first.

[pmshah]

I have been using a paid copy of BootItNG for last 3 years . It is a fantastic boot & partition manager. The current version supports DMA, SATA, USB2 & IEEE1394. It can directly image your partition to any removable cd/dvd media. It can undelete partitions. What you download as a trial is a fully functional version. I can practically swear by it. This is what permits me to have 5 versions of Windows & 9 flavours of Linux in independent partitions on a single hdd. I juggle resize my partitions at least once a weekto try a new flavour of linux or some changes in unattended install.

[bledd]

Personally, I wouldn't trust my data to a "freeware" partition resizer. Technically, though, I don't trust it to a pay-for one either. I always do a Ghost image first.

same here

i always copy all data to another drive before using Partition Magic, i've seen so many other people with horror stories!

[DigeratiPrime]

Well if you're open to buying software for this task I would suggest Acronis Disk Director.

I've done everything with this software on many machines and never had any problems.

http://www.acronis.com/