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Old February 14th, 2008, 03:17 PM
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Default Best simple partition software
What suggestions do you have for software that allows resizing of active partitions? I'm looking for:
-simple to use
-safe
-reliable
-inexpensive
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Old February 14th, 2008, 03:42 PM
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Parted Magic is as good as any,has additional features and is FREE
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originally discovered by Easter
edit-employs GParted.
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Old February 14th, 2008, 04:24 PM
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GParted (free, GNU).

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/

You need to burn a live CD with it. I have resized my WinXP partition with it successfully.
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Old February 15th, 2008, 08:06 AM
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BING
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/index.htm

search here for a wealth of info
best $$ you'll ever spend: partitioning is just the start..
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Old February 15th, 2008, 08:30 AM
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Hi

Since messing with Linux installs I've not had a problem with GParted.

Great tool
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