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- jcostom, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20Not a big reader, eh?
"Need a way to resize NTFS partitions..." - WeThePeople, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15Donation ware is the future, if you like free software please remember to donate to your favorite ones if you can, hopefully we can change the way of business by being more open and free.
gparted donations page http://gparted.sourceforge.net/donations.php
I have been trying to switch to using all donate ware products, but sometimes we forget, they still need our support to make this system work. always look for the donation page of your favorite software;-)
More choice, more freedom, lower cost, and better products! - PRESS_00, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15Anything that makes dual booting linux and windows easier is a plus in my book!
- rewritable, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13If you backed up regularly like a good little geek then you wouldn't need to worry
- Rice, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Someone post some experience. I want to know if I can trust this.
- netnifty, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I've used it to resize an NTFS partition from ~180GB down to 120GB, when I switched to dual boot with Linux a while ago, and haven't had any issues with the partition at all either when mounting it from within Linux, or booting Windows from the resized partition.
Of course I've only used it once so my experience might be moot, but I'd definatly recommend it based on my experience with it. In fact I'll probably use it again later this week to give Linux some more space (haven't booted Windows in a month so it doesn't really need 40GB free space which Linux partition could use). - vdubski, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7The latest version of Partition Magic is bootable from cd.
- deadbaby, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Beautiful. This is going straight into my computer repair kit.
(also a word of warning, make sure you scandisk your NTFS drive before using this. IIRC Linux does not have a native fsck for NTFS. Your file system has to be 100% or very bad things will happen when you resize) - sameerb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7for free iso burner http://www.petri.co.il/how_to_write_iso_files_to_cd.htm
- TwistedMenta, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I used a few months ago when preparing to do a dual boot and found my Windows partition was to small so I doubled it's size, moved the partition where I was going to install Ubuntu and reduced the size of the remaining partition without any trouble. The GUI interface also makes it very intuitive to use. I'd definitely recommend it to anyone that needs to re-size or move partitions.
- zoomie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5"I believe it is qtparted."
Actually qtparted is just a graphical front end for parted. Not quite the same, but gparted uses the same underlying command line tool called parted. - Tobey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I use GParted to resize partitions all the time, I've never had it "eat" my data. Of course, I always backup the drive I plan on working on, just in case.
- madeingermany, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8"My outlook on software is that if you only use it once or twice, don't pay for it, if it is usefull, then you should pay."
Wrong - if you use it you should pay for it. If it's not usefull, don't use it.
If you pirate software at least admit it.
And this article is about very useful software, that you don't have to pay for, btw. - chicken101, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Awesome!
I digg this because spending $50+ on a partitioning software always seemed silly to me. - Chozabu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4imo, fiddling with partitions is never safe
but gparted is as good as any software on the market... - mctk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It's funny you should ask...
Last night I spent some time trying to resize my NTFS partition. All windows tools are proprietary and the demos wouldn't function. Downloaded Knoppix and used Gparted. Resized, created, deleted, resized again, created again. Interface is very easy to understand. Everything still working just dandy.
One thing, on my computer the progress meter would progress in serious jumps. For example, while initially scanning my hard drive, it quickly jumped to 25% where it stayed for 3 minutes. I assumed it was frozen, but waited anyways. It wasn't frozen. Just give it time, it will work!
Would have been nice to see this posted last night! Would have been a faster download! - 0x0000ff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3how about someone with experience using this in a production environment?
it's all well and good if 'everything seems ok' on your home PC; how about shifting bits in a 2TB RAID-5?
not bashing the software, I really want to know; as we dont have a copy of Partition Magic. - shade73, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I don't know if anyone knows this but it is already on the ubuntu live CD + you get all of the ubuntu stuff too. I use it to copy my data over the network somewhere safe and then use gparted afterwards to redo it. Just thought I'd share.
- ErrandboyOfDoom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I used GParted to set up my dual XP/Ubuntu laptop. Ubuntu freaked out when the partitioning was done for it for some reason, so I had to use its (awkward) internal partitioner (but I was able to preserve my data both times).
I've since (post-install) resized partitions under the clean, featurefull GParted, and no data loss, no OSes freaked out or anything. - cosmotic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It sucks that Symantec basically killed Partition Magic. PowerQuest made updates to the app every year, and they were always good updates like NTFS, Merge, Copy, etc. It's still the first thing I install after I install Windows. Screw Symantec.
- trogdoor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yes parted does and FYI it is HFS+.
- tumbles, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I've used the gparted livecd to resize NTFS partitions many times, and I've never had an issue. I've never had to run scandisk. Just know that after resizing, upon boot Windows will detect the drive changed and then make sure the drive is ok.
I used the CD just today. Twice. ;) - vdubski, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I don't mind paying $50 on partitioning software if I know for sure my data is going to be safe during the process.
- m1abrams, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I have used it on two seperate machines with NTFS. No issues.
- PotatoSalad, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I've used GParted since version 0.0.9 and it is an excellent program. The LiveCD is really nice, I first used it to resize a 250GB hard drive with 3 Linux partitions down to 200GB to make room for a 4th FAT32 partition. It worked flawlessly. I'm usually wary about partitioning applications, but this one passes my test.
- leohart, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Thanks god I find this one. One reason my friends has always refused the Ubuntu Install disk is: how do I partition?
And the partition tools in Ubuntu (and many other distros) have "alleviate me of the M$ evil" so many times. - merreborn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2qtparted can be had on this live CD:
http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page
I never had any luck getting it to resize partitions though. - comeonpriitk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2If gparted still uses parted, then my experience is if you try to grow an NTFS partition, win xp won't recognise the new partition size.
- mattdr488, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1anyone have a torrent or mirror?
- nater, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's new because the GParted people just released a LiveCD version, in effect taking the whole "finding a linux LiveCD that has it" task out of the picture.
- dbr_onix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Hm, does with work the OS X formatted partitions? (Name fails me at this moment..).. The Apple Disc Formating tool is okay, but it needs to format the drive to work, which sucks.. And wont let me create two different formats on one disk..
If not, does anyone know a program that will resize the OS X partitions, and preferable create NTFS (though I could use something else to create that)
Nice idea, something I think all liveCD's that have an install to harddrive option should have (Quite a few dont, which can be kinda annoying), maybe the GParted could be combined with a few other harddrive tools (Like data recovery stuff, not totaly sure if "for working with disk partitions" means anything other than GParted, not tried it yet..)
- Ben - PrimoTurbo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I had any issue resizing a 250GB NTFS partition with GParted, when I booted back into windows it said I had only 150GB. When I resized only 10GB. I had to use partition magic to resolve it.
- timwizard, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Great live CD for the toolbox ;].
- nkour, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1if only one could read the docs. No defrag is needed. http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/manual/html_chapter/parted_2.html#SEC25
- joeshlub, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I've been using this program for months, its absolutly amazing. I'm not sure why it's being labeled as new, but it is amazingly usefull. And you do not have to get all of the data out of the area on a partiotion you want to split, it does it for you. I do recomend defragmenting first because it makes use of gparted far faster. But it does work perfectly, quickly, and easily.
- futaris, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yep, it works well. I've used it several times in the past. It is a little slower than Partition Magic, which I used since the OS/2 days.
- TracerBulletNPI, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I used GParted about 3 months or so ago to make a new 10 gig partition off of my 120 gig partition for the purpose of testing a build of Vista. I made sure to THOROUGHLY defrag the drive and made sure that there was no data at the end of the disk (whether it matters or not). It performed flawlessly. I now have dual boot xp and vista (though I never use vista) and haven't had a problem. IMHO this program works well.
- thelastknowngod, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1dude ive been using SystemRescueCD for a while now. its has QtParted, of which i dont see any disadvantage, as well as a few other tools.
- macbirdie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I hope it's either:
1. Not based on parted which totally screwed up my ReiserFS root partition while resizing it.
2. It's based on a properly working parted.
3. Not based on parted while being reliable at all.
Otherwise the Partition Magic isn't going anywhere. - ajwillys, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I used to use Partition Magic til it totally f*'ed up my drive. I popped in a Knoppix live cd with QtParted installed and totally fixed everything PM had messed up. Then, just to be safe, I copied everything to a external drive before rebooting to Windows (and PM's pre-boot check thing).
FYI, for those confused with all the *parted names being thrown around, GParted and QtParted are both GUI frontends for the GNU Parted command line app. - Lobster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Here is another live CD (this one to be released as a Beta soon) with GParted
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/Puppy2
Have fun - dbr_onix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I have the G5 iMac (Mainly got it because I needed to run Final Cut Pro, which didn't have an dual binary at the time..), so that wont work.. Besides, it's not exactly the most convient way ever..
- Ben - pizpot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Considering how low quality Partition Magic is,gpart rocks. I had been using Ranish Partition Manager for dos but gpart is now my fav.
- duckedtapedemon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Can you boot other live cds on it?
- johnie1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gparted/gparted-livecd-0.2.5.iso?download
- nooreazy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1love this live CD,its very "sexy!"
- enry, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@tumbles: as long as Windows shuts down properly, you won't have a problem. I've had two cases where I just yanked power on a system while it was starting (didn't get the boot CD in in time) and was told by gparted that NTFS wasn't consistent and couldn't continue. Once I rebooted Windows and shut it down properly, gparted worked like a charm.
I've used it three (four?) times on various systems, even within VMWare to expand my Windows slice. - Mike_N, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I used this a few months ago to format a friends external drive that Partition Magic couldn't fix. It's better and it's free!
- bradleyland, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"If you backed up regularly like a good little geek then you wouldn't need to worry"
Time still has value. Any time your system gets hosed, it's a huge time investment to get things back up and running, backups or not. - Genma, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1something I would like to know too, how reliable this is. if it can replace PM + Ghost I would definitely use it instead.
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