best freeware partition software

[steve42069]

whats the best free partition software?

[Richard_G]

FDISK

[deckard8]

Gdisk - enhanced Fdisk - many more features, plus it can create partitions larger than 512gb - Fdisk can't.

Ranish Partition Manager - can create and resize partitions.

both available here >

http://www.4dos.info/dhardw.htm

[Robert Simandl]

Knoppix is an entire Linux distribution that runs from a CD. No install to hard drive necessary.

It contains QTpartED, an excellent freeware partition manager.

When I bought a Maxtor hard drive a few weeks ago, the MaxBlast software included with it couldn't find the drive onmy PC! So I rebooted with the Knoppix CD instead of the MaxBlast CD, and QTpartED found the drive and partitioned/formatted it fine and dandy.

[ranchhand]

Hey Robert...

I been using Knoppix for years to salvage data off of unbootable Windows systems, and I really love that program! I am currently running vs5 (the latest, I think it is 5). Will it format in NTFS, or only edit partitions?

Can you give me the path/basic instruction to QTpartED and on how to partition with Knoppix? I never knew that could be done! Thanx...

[liquid217]

whats the best free partition software?

GParted, packaged with a livecd.
It supports all of the major filesystem types, including ntfs. It can also do non-distructive partition resizing.

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/index.php

LiveCD download link:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=115843&package_id=173828