Posted: 11/12/2013 10:01:19 AM EDT
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Hey guys, looking online there are at least 15 shareware utilities available.
What is your favorite? 
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what os and what are you trying to do? windows 7 and up have built in partition and back up image software. partition magic and ghost were the 2 I normally use. Looking at making my Win 7 laptop multi-boot. I'm thinking Win 7, Ubuntu, and some other Linux distro (TBD). I guess a 10-20GB partition would suffice for the Linux OS's. I've got 250GB of free space to play with. |
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depending on which version, home, pro or ultimate, think there is one more, there is a limit on how many partitions it will support.
but if you right click on my computer, go to manage, select disk manager, right click on the partition you have space in, you can shrink the partition, so you can create a new one. the os partition has some arbitrary limits. I found I could not shrink it below 250 gb. |
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Quoted: This machine has Windows 7 64 bit Home Premium. Turns out my Ubunto distro has a built in utility for this. I am installing it on an 80GB partition, that should be sufficient. In case you want some excellent freeware in the future, I can't think of anything better than EaseUS Partition Master and Mini-tool Partition Wizard. They're both free and both do about the same thing. The EaseUS is from China and the Mini-tool is from Canada. I've used them so much, I think I've worn them out. If you later want to delete the linux installation later and not have any fuss, here is what I do: 1. boot into windows installation. 2. load up Partition Master or Partition Wizard 3. delete linux partitions, make sure to leave windows 100mb boot and regular partitions. 4. click on the disk to select ALL remaining partitions 5. click "rebuild MBR" on the left hand side of the screen -- this is necessary because linux usually installs grub and changes the boot record for its drive. If you just delete the linux partitions, you won't be able to boot into windows again, so you need to rebuild the MBR after deleting the linux partitions. I also burned a couple of bootable cds in case you screw something up and need to fix it: 1. Partition Master or Partition Wizard 2. Clonezilla, 3. Redo Backup livecd 4. Windows repair cd 5. Maybe make an antivirus bootable cd to do a scan or Malwarebytes Finally, if you want to try out other linux distros without having to dual-boot them, then just download VirtualBox. It's open source and allows you to create a "virtual" computer in Windows (or linux if you prefer). You can then install live cds of any linux distros you want, like mint, manjaro, fedora, openSUSE, or whatever you want. That way, you don't have to worry about making new partitions and dealing with dual, triple, or quadruple booting OS's. Hope this helps. Cheers ETA: I just checked out that Parted Magic link. I've never seen it before, but it looks like the cat's meow. I am going to load it into virtualbox and give it a spin to see how it works. Thanks for that. |