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Partition Question

post #1 of 7
11/13/07 at 12:39am
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Hey guys, I have norton partition magic 8. apparantly it does not play nice with windows vista. i'm trying to repartition an external hard drive on my wifes compaq laptop. i found out that vista has a built in partition program, BUT it doesnt seem to want to open options for an external hard drive. do you guys know of something i'm maybe doing wrong? or a program that will let me partition the external hard drive in vista basic? thanks for all the help.
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post #2 of 7
11/13/07 at 7:19am
using a partition sizing program designed for a different OS is asking for trouble. See if there's a patch or upgrade that will make it compatible with vista (i suspect not), or find an alternative piece of software that supports vista.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...tion_utilities
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post #3 of 7
11/13/07 at 12:59pm
Personally, I always use Gparted. Its available free as a bootable iso.
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post #4 of 7
11/13/07 at 2:37pm
Yeah, GParted is good. I use Acronis Disk Director myself. Both work well.
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post #5 of 7
11/13/07 at 3:38pm
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ok thanks! I'll have to check on both those programs. One more question, on the bootable iso program, would i just burn to cd, place in disk and boot from there?
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post #6 of 7
11/13/07 at 4:16pm
Yep, that's all you'd have to do. Just set the computer to boot from a CD, with the disk in the drive, and away you go!
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post #7 of 7
11/13/07 at 9:39pm
i don't know about your vista, but my vista comes with partitioning tool built in, it's in all programs, administrative tools, computer management, disk management.

i have vista ultimate so i dunno if vista basic has this same feature but i think it does
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