On Friday 28 January 2005 05:15 am, Bob Brennan wrote: > > > A better, but more expensive way is to use a native windoze app like > > > Partition Magic, but unfortunately, that neither Open Source, nor free. > > > > Sadly I have to agree. Partition Magic is one of the most useful pieces > > of software I've ever come across. Unfortunately it is far from free. > > > > Best, Darren > > I had the same problem(s) and solved it all perfectly and easily with > Partition Magic. The normal price in the UK is £49.95 but I got a > perfectly legal disk off Amazon.co.uk for £19.95. Original new disk, > no box, no docs, but it works a treat. (no, I'm not the one selling > them...) > > HTH, bob Ranish Partition Manager is a freeware alternative to Partition Magic. Although I've never used it (back in my Windows days I used Partition Magic), I've seen a number of favorable comments about Ranish on various Windows sites. More information and downloads can be found here: http://www.ranish.com/ And an additional note to the OP: Before doing any partitioning or formatting operations, be sure to backup all that needs backing up. One of the corollaries to Murphy's Law is that you will only need a backup if you didn't make one. -- cmg
