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Windows only: EASEUS Partition Manager is a hard drive partition
utility that bills itself as a free alternative to the popular
commercial product, PartitionMagic. EASEUS can resize and move
partitions without losing data already on them (unlike many other
partitioning tools which erase the data on the drive in order to work).
EASEUS can also change partition labels, format easily, hide and
un-hide partitions, preview the effect of your changes before you make
them, and change cluster size. EASEUS only supports hard disks from
20-800GB (with apologies to those in the terabyte club). For more on
partitioning with GParted (also free, but not as user-friendly), see
our previous post on drive partitioning and imaging. EASEUS Home Edition is a free download for personal use on Windows XP and 2000 SP4 only.
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35 Discussions
1:28 PM on Wed Aug 6 2008
Regarding Vista's built in partition manager:
I found out first hand that it is lacking. The main problem with it is that when shrinking a partition (C drive for example) the space it can shrink has to be contiguous. In other words if you have 20 GB of space that you want to clear and there is a 8GB free space with a 2GB physically written on the drive (Say an unmovable page file or system file for instance) between the 8GB and the remaining 10GB of free space then Vista can only shrink it 8GB regardless of how much more space is available.
After much research to discover this, I eventually wound up back here for an article on using gparted. A quick gparted CD and some time was all I needed to shrink my partition.
2:52 PM on Wed Aug 6 2008
@EracMan: So GParted can reliably move the paging files? (I suppose that makes sense, since the only reason Vista's manager wouldn't is because Vista itself is still using them.)
3:05 PM on Wed Aug 6 2008
i've used gparted on 2 occasions while trying to do a format / restore on an ntfs module.
i havent been able to make them boot after resizing a partition.
it erased/lost my mbr table it would be nice to have an ntfs guide somewhere, not even sure if it's capable of doing it.
i've used partition magic and acronis disk director, without any of this problems.
4:19 PM on Wed Aug 6 2008
For linux I've used gparted and have never had a problem. On windows, though, I've always used CompuApps Swissknife. It formats all fat and ntfs, and quick. seems a lot simpler than this though, but I don't do anything fancy with it anyway. I use it for my external hd's. never given me a problem.
[www.compuapps.com]
11:21 AM on Thu Aug 7 2008
For Vista, I recommend Acronis Disk Director Suite version 10. Sadly, it isn't free.
11:37 AM on Thu Aug 7 2008
No thanks, I'll stick with the tried-and-true BootIt Next Generation ( [www.terabyteunlimited.com] ). It's not free but it's quite inexpensive, and has been around an awfully long time.
10:13 PM on Thu Sep 11 2008
I used XP and tried this EASEUS Partition Manager to enlarge my system partition, and it did work. Worth trying...
1:04 AM on Fri Sep 26 2008
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7:55 AM on Wed Feb 25 2009
Thanks for this. I was looking for a free partition tool since partition magic doesn't work for vista sp1.
8:17 AM on Fri Feb 27 2009
Since so many are trying to knock this product down I figured I'd throw my hat in the ring for it!
This software was the first I could find that'd Partition for free including ones already in use! It worked perfectly multiple times and I am looking forward to having the full version for free!
1:21 PM on Fri Feb 27 2009
The requested URL /download/epm.exe was not found on this server.
1:33 PM on Fri Feb 27 2009
Dude... you said "EASEUS only supports hard disks from 20-800GB (with apologies to those in the terabyte club)."
Well according to their web site, version 3.0 does support 1.5 TB drives.
6:44 PM on Fri Feb 27 2009
Link does not work. :(
8:33 PM on Fri Feb 27 2009
I grabbed it from here:
[www.mydigitallife.info]
1:14 PM on Wed Apr 1 2009
Has anyone used the server edition for windows server 2003?
06:06 PM
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