Freeware of the Moment: EASEUS Partition Master for Windows
A partition manager is something that you rarely need, but when you do, you really, really need one. These utilities are the ones that let you reconfigure your hard drive partitions in your operating system. Good ones make it simple to modify partition sizes and to merge partitions when that makes sense.
I have used commercial solutions, but it’s hard to justify paying more than $50 for one when you use it so rarely. That’s where freeware EASEUS Partition Master steps in. This free utility (personal edition) does everything the big boys do but at a cost that makes sense for seldom-used utilities. The program can do all of the copy, re-size, move and conversion functions you’d expect and works on Microsoft Windows XP and Vista.
(via Techblog)
Note that the free version is 32-bit only. Otherwise you need to pay for the Pro version for 64-bit support. I’m not looking a gift horse in the mouth; I just thought I would point it out, since I’m sure others besides me have bought “non-Pro” 64-bit machines in the past year!
D.
Good catch, David.
I wanted to take part of the 120GB disk in my Aspire One to have a separate partition for Lunix. I bought the last version (9) of Partition Commander, installed it and found it to be really hard to even understand.
The Aspire One does not have a CD drive.
When I saw your comments on the Easeus product, I downloaded it and tried it and it works – NO SWEAT!!!
I now have the original small restore partition, a 66MB XP partition and an unused 40GB unallocated partition.
So now to make a bootable memory stick, add an image, boot and install Linux on the 40GB
Thanks for finding it for us
..wiley
NW Harris County