   Partitioning software
  I'm downloading the Vista Beta and I'm going to have to partition my drive.  My drives are already partitioned with just a large primary partition and have data, so I'd rather not have to wipe the drive and start over.  So I need something that'll preserve my data.  I'd like a free partition manager, but if I have to go the commercial route I will.So any suggestions on what's good?   
Partition Magic??;  I know about Partition Magic.  I should have said other than Partition Magic, I've had... issues with it in the past, so I'd like to avoid it.   ;  a DVD burner and stack of recordable DVDs? Back up all your data, format everything?Or if you don't have a burner already, buy yourself a new drive, copy all needed data over to that one, format old drive, and partition.The amount of people posting that they've had problems spliting up a drive with data on it far outweighs the number of people saying they've never had problems.Besides, these days you can always seem to use more space.   ;Quote:Original post by Tape_WormI know about Partition Magic.  I should have said other than Partition Magic, I've had... issues with it in the past, so I'd like to avoid it.What kind of issues?  If they were partitioning issues, then you probably used it incorrectly [wink].   ;Quote:Original post by Rob LoachQuote:Original post by Tape_WormI know about Partition Magic.  I should have said other than Partition Magic, I've had... issues with it in the past, so I'd like to avoid it.What kind of issues?  If they were partitioning issues, then you probably used it incorrectly [wink].no, partition magic is nice and i use it all the time, but i have heard of some people getting thier partitions messed up... although it may have bee  because they missused it, i don't quite know myself. but partition magic is the only program i know that is reliable when messing with partitions soo its either that or backup time![Edited by - Jarrod1937 on June 22, 2006 12:51:48 AM];Quote:Original post by Rob LoachQuote:Original post by Tape_WormI know about Partition Magic.  I should have said other than Partition Magic, I've had... issues with it in the past, so I'd like to avoid it.What kind of issues?  If they were partitioning issues, then you probably used it incorrectly [wink].Give that Partition Magic is fairly simple to use, I doubt I did anything wrong, but I've had it screw up a partition on me before.  Mind you, this was a long time ago and I guess there's been some improvements to it by now.;Quote:Original post by Talrotha DVD burner and stack of recordable DVDs? Back up all your data, format everything?Or if you don't have a burner already, buy yourself a new drive, copy all needed data over to that one, format old drive, and partition.The amount of people posting that they've had problems spliting up a drive with data on it far outweighs the number of people saying they've never had problems.Besides, these days you can always seem to use more space.I do recall people mentioning many problems with putting vista on another partition.  I do have another drive in the system, but it's a SATA drive.  So I guess I need to know:  Will I need drivers for the controller?  Will my old XP drivers work if I do need them?  Will Vista destroy the contents of the drive?  I'd rather avoid having to buy any new hardware, especially for the sake of installing a beta operating system (more space is always nice, but not a necessity for me at this point).   ;  You could use BootIt NG. You can get the trial version, which has the ability to resize a drive and create partitions. I've used it many times, and have never had a problem with it. ;  Last time I had to get partitioning done, I just downloaded a Linux LiveCD (PuppyLinux in this case), loaded it up and used the tools included from the desktop. IT had one tool included (whose name escapes me at the min - I'll have to check and get back) that was very PartitionMagic like in appearance and functionality too.   