Partition Magic alternative?

[aphel aura]

Is there any free alternative for Partition Magic? At least ones that support Windows XP and NTFS file system.

TIA.

[Bruce]

FDISK...

[Daniel]

The thing with fdisk is you can't split up a NTSF partition into 2 parts.

[Ben]

http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/gnu/parted/bootdisk/
[yes I know the http and the ftp thing, their regular ftp server is full right now and they have an alternate running on an http server so there's no screw-ups in the URL i typed]

Download partboot and partroot to c:\parted as partboot.img and partroot.img (or whatever the extention was, but for the sake of argument I'll type that and use those names for the files).

Then go here: http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/slackware/slackware/rootdisks/ [again with the http and ftp thing] and download RAWRITE.EXE to C:\Windows or C:\Winnt or whatever your root windows folder is.

Have two blank, formatted floppies ready, one labeled Partboot and the other Partroot. Reboot into MS-DOS (yes, REBOOT! DO NOT go to the DOS window within Windows. If you have XP and have another computer with 9x/NT installed, download those files to the other computer and reboot into DOS on the other machine.)

After you get the big black screen at a terribly small resolution (worse than 640x480 :nervous:) then insert the floppy labeled Partboot. Type the following commands, pressing enter after every line...


cd \parted
rawrite partboot.img a:

Then when it's done (took 20minutes on a 266mhz machine) insert the floppy labeled Partroot and type the following commands, pressing enter after every line...


rawrite partroot.img a:

then when it's done, put the floppy labelled Partboot in and hit the magic button (Off switch; fixes any windows problem) twice to reboot.

Now press enter at the BOOT: prompt, and wait for it to ask for the root disk, then put in the Partroot floppy and hit enter. Press enter at the keyboard question, unless you want to use a foreign keyboard (i.e. Not one for USA/Canada-english). Then when you get to the all-faithful # prompt (the root prompt).


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I cant finish right now but I will edit my post later

[Daniel]

There is also http://www.ranish.com/part/