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Anyone know of good partition software thats cheap or free? Partition Magic 8.0 is like 50 bucks at stores...
PostPosted:Sat May 01, 2004 2:30 pm
by Flip
<div style='font: 12pt "Cooper Black"; text-align: left; '>My 4 year old HD finally crapped out the other day so i bought an 80 gig one for 70 bucks at MicroCenter. I originally partitioned 5 gigs for win2000pro and the rest for programs, but i am realizing that 5 gigs probably wasnt enough because even though i am installing the programs on a totally different partition the 5 gig one still accumulates somehow and now it is 3/5 full... Windows doesnt have the tools to give the 5 gig partition more space from the rest of the HD without having to format everything, which i dont want to do. I know packages like PM8.0 can help me but 50 bucks? I dont think so.</div>
PostPosted:Sat May 01, 2004 5:57 pm
by Kupek
<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Sorry, but there aren't any free partition tools that retain data.</div>
PostPosted:Sat May 01, 2004 10:44 pm
by Zeus
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>It's free on Overnet :-)</div>
PostPosted:Mon May 03, 2004 3:10 am
by SineSwiper
<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Except for Linux, though I've haven't claimed to have tested/trusted any of them.</div>
PostPosted:Mon May 03, 2004 10:40 am
by Kupek
<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>The last time I looked, I couldn't even find Linux software to do the job. What have you seen?</div>
I heard that Mandrake has one called Diskdrake. The GNU toolkit has Parted. (Links inside)
PostPosted:Mon May 03, 2004 12:51 pm
by SineSwiper
<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '><a href="
http://www.mandrakelinux.com/diskdrake/ ... kdrake/</a>
<a href="
http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/part ... l</a></div>
PostPosted:Mon May 03, 2004 1:15 pm
by Kupek
<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Cool. I used parted on my laptop, but I don't remember the ability to preserve data. DiskDrake is something I haven't heard of.</div>
PostPosted:Tue May 04, 2004 12:23 am
by SineSwiper
<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Again, I can't vouch for either of them, but let me know if they work.</div>
PostPosted:Tue May 04, 2004 10:43 am
by Kupek
<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Oh, I have no need right now, and I probably won't have the need for a while.</div>