partitioning software

[danthepixelman]

Can you direct me to user friendly software (freeware/shareware) to partition my hard drive?

[glc]

The only ways that I know of to partition a drive without buying commercial software are Fdisk and Ranish Partition Manager - which is not very user friendly.

[audiyoda]

Originally posted by danthepixelman
Can you direct me to user friendly software (freeware/shareware) to partition my hard drive?

No such animal. Buy Partition Magic 6 (now that v.7 is out, 6 is pretty cheap if you can find it). Otherwise, like glc said, F-Disk or Ranish are your only choices.

-Craig

[Blakhart]

Use FDISK a couple times and you will be very comfortable with it.
It just wont do NTFS.

[freezinbutt]

It's not free and I've never seen any free or shareware partitioning software. System Commander is pretty easy to use as long as you follow the directions to the letter. I got cocky with it and installed it without reading the directions and hosed my hard drive. Ended up formatting and starting over. I learned a hard lesson that day. When in doubt, read the directions. Once I did that, it works great. I have Windows 2000 Pro and Linux Mandrake 8.1 on my hard drive and System Commander allows me to do whatever I want to with all of my partitions. It also has a pretty neat boot loader with sexy icons all over the screen that allows you to boot up whatever operating system you want, or a floppy. During the install, it makes some back up floppies so that you can uninstall it and return your MBR back to the way it was. Make sure those files copy to the disks before you continue with the install. I did not do this and it turned out that the files did not copy. I could not save my system and that is why I ended up formatting and starting over. Again, follow the directions and you'll be OK.

I got it here: http://www.v-com.com/

freezinbutt

[morriswindgate]

Just use FDISK or FREE FDISK from the site below and the follow the instructions from the second site link. It isn't as hard as it looks.
Also keep a calculator handy to size the partitions, example a 40 gig hard drive will be a 38.7 (or something like that) in FDisk. This is the way it looks at a gig and you will still have the full disk available.

http://www.23cc.com/free-fdisk/

http://fdisk.radified.com/