Comments on: Merging Partitions

By: Armando Barreiro

Armando Barreiro — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 13:44:51 +0000

You’ll be surprised to find how much you can do with the very small distro and bootable CD of Puppy Linux. I find no need to use Knoppix anymore.

Armando

By: Michael Harrington

Michael Harrington — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 21:41:47 +0000

I recommend and use Acronis Disk Director (http://www.acronis.com/). You can run it from Windows or from a special bootable CD you can create from within their program.

By: Rick

Rick — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 16:24:13 +0000

Another priceless partition manipulation tool formerly marketed by the quite excellent company PowerQuest, originator of Partition Magic, was Server Magic. Server Magic was specifically targetted to do the job that Partition Magic performed on desktop OSes, but doing it specifically on server OSes. Unfortunately, PowerQuest never had the opportunity to update that very powerful application to work with Windows 2003 Server.

Before the demise of PowerQuest due to its purchase by Symantec, Partition Magic was regularly updated to support new OSes and technologies as they came into being. Their titles were also very resonably priced, given their capabilities.

Now that Symantec owns the remnants of PowerQuest, Partition Magic has been allow to moulder, and the outlook is for Partition Magic to die a horrible death, just like Delrina WinFax Pro, @tGuard and a multitude of other fine products wiped-out by Symantec’s acquire-and-crush tactics.

The loss of PowerQuest was a terrible blow to IT professionals’ software toolboxes and the marketing of reasonably-priced quality software..

By: Gary Greene

Gary Greene — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 14:43:01 +0000

Actually, I normally fire up either Knoppix or SystemRescue CD and use QtParted, an open source Partition Magic clone with many of the same features as the commercial tool, but with less cost. It can resize NTFS, FAT32, and Linux file systems. Not sure if it handles HFS and HFS+ Macintosh partitions…..

By: Bill Hudgins

Bill Hudgins — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 13:25:37 +0000

I use GParted, a Linux utility that boots from a CD to extend partitions. We have to reimage drives many times a year in our public library environment, but we don’t reimage the entire drive: only the areas containing the OS and user data, which may make up only 20% of the drive. (We use PC-AID for image cloning). So we’re left with a lot of space which can be extended. The whole task from re-imaging to finished drive takes about 20 minutes for a typical public access drive.

By: Bill Hudgins

Bill Hudgins — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 13:25:37 +0000

By: Tiago Correia

Tiago Correia — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 09:09:34 +0000

I use Gparted a opensource program for partition managment
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/

Very good to use.

By: Peter - SoftwareCasa

Peter - SoftwareCasa — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 05:08:55 +0000

Thanks Chris, I feel one software well worth mentioning as well is Paragon Partition Manager.

By: Peter - SoftwareCasa

Peter - SoftwareCasa — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 05:08:55 +0000

Thanks Chris, I feel one software well worth mentioning as well is Paragon Partition Manager.