Looking for a good disk partition resizer or way to do it.

[TheJediSlayer]

Well, the title basically says it all. I'm looking for a disk partition program that will allow me to re-size an existing partition that already has Windows XP installed upon it.

Thanks for any help at all,

Tyler

 

[LNCPapa]

Best luck I've had doing this is with gparted. You should be able to find it at gparted.sf.net

 

[mscrx]

I agree, gparted is the best way for me as well. give it a try and you will love it

 

[TheJediSlayer]

Thank you both very much.

 

[surfersaiyan]

is gparted happy creating partitions on larger drives?

i tried to use qtparted on a samsung 120gb and it hung badly. i later read somewhere that qt doesnt like bigger drives.

just wanna make sure as i'm also looking to give it another shot!

 

[LookinAround]

Never used gparted (tho have heard it mentioned often enough to recognize it as a favorite freeware solution).

I will however give a big thumbs up to a commercial solution, Acronis Disk Director, which has handled many different partition issues (including recovery) for me. Free download trial for 15days and (i think) USD $30 to purchase (i found a good investment, personally)

 

[TheJediSlayer]

Actually, there is another question that comes to mind now. I downloaded a CD Live image package for GParted, so that I could boot it up and do it that way, however, there are multiple files, and I'm unsure of which files to use.

Link: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gparted/gparted-live-0.3.7-7.iso?modtime=1215010676&big_mirror=0

I suppose I need to use the files contained in the folder "live" and not anything else, correct? I am currently running on Win XP and plan to partition that one. Thanks again.

 

[Bravo7]

There are many good programs that do that. I've recommend Acronis Disk Director this work pretty well,
Some other people prefer Partition Magic, gparted and others .

 

[conradodav]

Hello!

Have you tested Partition Magic?

 

[TheJediSlayer]

I found a program that seemed to work just fine.

.... EASEUS Partition Manager Personal

 

[olefarte]

EASEUS Partition Manager works for me also.