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Rad

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What program for non-destructive re-partitioning with Vista?
Jul 12^th, 2007 at 6:10pm

I read Partition Magic (latest version = 8.05, I believe) does not support Vista.

What are folks using, then, to re-partitioning non-destructively (PM-style)?

Does Vista come with something that can do this? (non-destructively)

I'm still using XP.

I think PM supports a bootable DOS-based version, yes? Can this be used? Or has Vista changed the file system?

http://www.symantec.com/home_homeoffice/products/overview.jsp?pcid=sp&pvid=pm80

system req'ments:

http://www.symantec.com/home_homeoffice/products/sysreq.jsp?pcid=sp&pvid=pm80

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Re: What program for non-destructive re-partitioning with Vista?
Reply #1 - Jul 12^th, 2007 at 6:39pm

Rad, I don't have Vista either. BING and Acronis Disk Director Suite are compatible with Vista. I understand BING is very reliable but it takes some getting used to. ADDS has a GUI similar to Partition Magic and is easy to use. It does have some nice features such as Partition Recovery and a Disk Editor but it's made by Acronis so I'd be reluctant to trust it fully. It has a forum and there are more than a few complaints.

BING has a Newsgroup and questions are frequently answered by TeraByte.

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	Re: What program for non-destructive re-partitioning with Vista? Reply #2 - Jul 13^th, 2007 at 10:12am Thanks Brian. I would expect Symantec to upgrade PM to support Vista, since it was the partitioning program.
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Re: What program for non-destructive re-partitioning with Vista?
Reply #3 - Jul 13^th, 2007 at 12:46pm

Rad wrote on Jul 12^th, 2007 at 6:10pm:

Yes. Vista has improved the disk management module and can now resize partitions, which is the most commonly requested feature. I would think any partition manager will have to offer a lot of new features to be marketable.

http://www.pctipsbox.com/extend-and-shrik-vista-disk-partition/

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/resize-a-partition-for-free-in-wind...

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	Re: What program for non-destructive re-partitioning with Vista? Reply #4 - Jul 13^th, 2007 at 1:08pm One partition manager that I have used (besides Partition Magic) is Paragon's Partition Manager, and it claims to be Vista compatible: http://www.partition-manager.com/
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