Monday, June 8, 2009

Free alternative to Partition Magic

There are quite a few... but I'm attracted to GParted from GNU (http://sourceforge.net/projects/gparted/) as it is GNU you know :) They also provide a Live CD (http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php) too.

I choose to boot GPartedLive from a thumbdrive instead and I follow Choice 1 from http://gparted.sourceforge.net/liveusb.php

It didn't work 100% and so I try Choice 2 from the same page and I was able to delete my Linux partitions created by Debian and create one NTFS partition and a smaller ext3 partition for my Ubuntu (ya I chose Ubuntu for WPA support... ) ... but all is well until I realise it is better for me to combine the 2 NTFS partitions together and GParted just couldn't do that...

more googling.... and came EASEUS Partition Master Home Edition (http://www.partition-tool.com/personal.htm)

installation is easy and the user interface is nice..

but it don't seem to recognise what type of partition u have except for NTFS and FAT... so I think it is best to use both GParted and EASEUS together...

fook sheng

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