can anyone suggest a highly rated free partition manager?

)corjello(

gparted

http://partitionlogic.org.uk/index.html is free. I never used it though.

downloadin it

will try at home

Free FDISK

Compuapps swissknife:

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

PING:

http://ping.windowsdream.com/

jaclaz

Super FDisk. It only supports FAT32 though.

gparted

Another vote for GParted...

Live CD ISO linkage goodness

swissknife is good, but only for slave drives. it doesn't let you mess with your master drive with any OS data on it. designed with the n00b in mind

it doesn't let you mess with your master drive with any OS data on it. designed with the n00b in mind

Well, I would call it "common sense" or "better safe than sorry", if you use it from a BartPE, AS YOU SHOULD, there are no such limits.

Running any partition related program on the drive you booted from is often asking for trouble.

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

SwissKnife plugin for BARTPE

Download the file that contains 'SwissKnife plug-in for BART PE'. The zip file contains instructions on how to add SwissKnife Plug-in and other files to BART PE. This version has the safety lock removed which prevents to create or delete partition on the drive OS is installed.

CAUTION: SwissKnife plug-in will instantly remove partitions from any disk drive, use it SAFELY.

jaclaz

Edited September 20, 200619 yr by jaclaz

In the league of GParted and PartitionLogic is QTParted. Its packaged with SystemRescueCD, which also has PartImage, a partition imaging/backup/restore program. I'm a happy user of it.

Depending on what os you have, there is one built in.

I like putting partition magic on a bootable disk. You can get the free trial and copy the files you need to the disk.

Edited September 26, 200619 yr by kartel

partitionlogic

It cannot be used

i got kernel protecion (multitasking processor found) error even in VPC !!!!!!

i've got Partition magic 8.0, i even used it to fix my hard drive that i almost lost...but now i have no use for it, as im running XP Pro right now. no need for home.

oh well, i have to give my sister a 40 gig anyway, i guess i'll give her the maxtor