Partitioning Software for Vista

mrochester · 25 Feb 2007 at 20:20

I've been using Partition Magic for a long time with WindowsXP, but it doesn't appear to work in Windows Vista. Does anyone know of any software that does what Partition Magic does, but works in Vista?

Thanks,

Michael.

Undesirable · 25 Feb 2007 at 20:42

I successfully installed Acronis Disk Director on Vista x86 using Microsoft Virtual PC. You have to run it as an administrator, though. I've no idea if it would work on x64.

kitfit1 · 25 Feb 2007 at 20:52

mrochester said:
I've been using Partition Magic for a long time with WindowsXP, but it doesn't appear to work in Windows Vista. Does anyone know of any software that does what Partition Magic does, but works in Vista?

Thanks,

Michael.

Then just boot from the PM cd and use it that way. At the end of the day, it's still an NTFS file system and PM still does the job, just not from within Vista.

skanky · 25 Feb 2007 at 21:06

mrochester said:
I've been using Partition Magic for a long time with WindowsXP, but it doesn't appear to work in Windows Vista. Does anyone know of any software that does what Partition Magic does, but works in Vista?

Thanks,

Michael.

yeah: right click my computer, manage, disk management.

mrochester · 25 Feb 2007 at 21:15

skanky said:
yeah: right click my computer, manage, disk management.

Hmmm, I didn't know disk management could merge partitions, create new partitions and move data etc. Can you tell me how to do that (never delved into disk management that much, just basic formatting and partitioning).

EDIT - I've had a look around, and disk management doesn't appear to be able to do what Partition Magic does. It can shrink and extend partitions, but not when there is data on it. Pretty pointless!

EDIT - The Acronis software doesn't work in Vista.

Undesirable · 25 Feb 2007 at 22:22

Then the best way I can think of doing it is to create a GParted boot CD.

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=115843&package_id=173828

Cob · 25 Feb 2007 at 23:54

Undesirable said:
Then the best way I can think of doing it is to create a GParted boot CD.

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=115843&package_id=173828

Yeah that one.

I love GParted, but sadly it doesn't see my RAID

mrochester · 26 Feb 2007 at 00:08

Thanks, I'll give that a try.

skanky · 26 Feb 2007 at 00:22

mrochester said:
EDIT - I've had a look around, and disk management doesn't appear to be able to do what Partition Magic does. It can shrink and extend partitions, but not when there is data on it. Pretty pointless!

then i dont know what to tell ya, i managed to shrink/extend partitions with data on it. seemed to work fine for me.