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whats the best software to mange my hard drives with, partition magic any good or is there anything better?
 
What do you need the software to do? Windows can do most operations with the built in tools, it's really only partition resizing and non destructive moving that needs PM.
 
GParted and KParted are two open source tools that do the same as PM, although these programmes are for Linux, they are generally used with a LiveCD.
 
Hirens boot CD - many choices

There is a free utility disc you can download from torrent sites
hiren's boot cd , I think the latest version is 8.9

It has several different partition tools , my fav is the acronis partitioning tool
 
Hiren's CD is free but I don't think the software on there is free.

Used to always use Fdisk + Partition Magic for 10+ yrs but since discovering Acronis last year I haven't used anything else.

Every now and then if I used another tool to resize/create partitions, including WinXPs own built in one, PM would refuse to recognise the partitions. Never had the problem Acronis.

If you want something free then download a Linux Live CD and use the tools as recommended by fumbles, just as easy.
 
fumbles said:
GParted and KParted are two open source tools that do the same as PM, although these programmes are for Linux, they are generally used with a LiveCD.
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GParted is brilliant, but can't resize Vista partitions - apparently Vista uses a newer revision of NTFS which GParted doesn't yet support?

Also for some bizarre reason the GParted LiveCD doesn't like my USB mouse, so I have to navigate around using the keyboard. Also without your mouse you have to Control-Alt-F1 and manually type in "shutdown -r now" to quit the darn thing ;p

Linux eh :p
 
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