What is a good partition manager?


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Acronis Disk Director is the best commercial application.

For free alternatives that are worth using consider EASEUS Partition Manager and Partition Wizard Home Edition, which are very small in size (9mb and 5mb, respectively).

Paragon provides a Partition Manager Express but its installer size is around 90mb (don't know if it includes some kind of bootable disk, though). The free ones doesn't.

If you other Acronis products, its great that you can make a bootable cd with all their apps in it. I use Disk Director and True Image for hdd images.

usb thumb drives are seen as removable drives -- and yes disk manager does not like to work with these.

Here this is how you can flip the removable bit and use disk manager on them.

http://www.lancelhoff.com/multi-partition-...ive-in-windows/

Multi partition a USB flash drive in Windows

Great -- but what exactly did that get you? They are all still fat32, I could understand if you were wanting say ext3, HFS+ and NTFS/FAT32 for different OSs access.

But why not just put pictures and drivers into folders on the 1 fat32 partition?

Again -- don't see the point of the extra hassle of creating the partitions.. And now you just limited your space, what if you run out of room on the pictures part, but have room left on the drivers part.

I understand wanting to boot linux off your thumb -- here is the same kind of thing http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/

But since your leaving your linux part fat32, there was little reason to part out the thumb.. You could of installed linux to the 16gb part and then just created folders for your pictures and drivers.

Since all your parts are fat32 I see no benefit to parting it out like that - other than shrinking your available space for specific things, since you stated you want to keep pictures in one and drivers in another, etc..

just my 2 cents is all -- have fun.

Geez, let him partition it however he likes. I make a separate partition for my downloads, pictures, etc also since that let's me wipe out my Windows partition and reinstall it without losing anything. Yes I back them all up on external media also, but it's less of a pita to not have to copy them back every time I reinstall the OS.

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