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Old 06-14-2005, 12:42 PM   #1
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Partitioning programs

Anybody know of any reliable HD partitioning software utilities that are free? Thanks.
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Old 06-14-2005, 01:48 PM   #2
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Nothing that's user friendly. You might try one of them from the Ultimate Boot CD.

http://ubcd.sourceforge.net/
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Thanks, I'll try it and let ya know!
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Old 06-14-2005, 02:16 PM   #4
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Nothing that's user friendly.
Ditto.


Ranish Partition manager

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Ranish is one of them that's on the UBCD.
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Old 06-16-2005, 10:18 PM   #6
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is there something wrong with win xp partitioning? thats what i always use and seems to work fine
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Old 06-17-2005, 05:26 AM   #7
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XP can do the job just fine as long as you don't need to keep the data that's on the drive.
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You could try system rescue CD' s qt parted

boot the cd and press enter
at the command line you type exctly "run_qtparted" whithout the""
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You could try system rescue CD' s qt parted

boot the cd and press enter
at the command line you type exctly "run_qtparted" whithout the""
Don't forget to back-up your data first.
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