So what do we use instead of PartitionMagic now that Symantec's killed it?

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Apparently, since the last time I had to do a lot of playing with partitions and images, Symantec acquired, neglected, and killed off PartitionMagic. (Yeah, it's been a while.) What, then, are we meant to use instead, that gives us that general behavior of actually doing what it's goddamned supposed to that PartitionMagic so nobly displayed?

score 31 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 19 '10 at 05:41

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There are quite a few alternatives, both commercial and Open Source. One of the more popular OS programs is GParted.

answered Jul 19 '10 at 05:41

John Gardeniers

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score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 19 '10 at 15:38

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My vote is for Gparted also. I have a USB stick as an Ubuntu 10.04 boot disk. Gparted let's you move and resize NTFS partitions, which is especially handy when managing windows boxes :)

answered Jul 19 '10 at 15:38

speeds images

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score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 19 '10 at 05:36

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Acronis Disk Director suite

Paragon Partition Manager

answered Jul 19 '10 at 05:36

Sergey

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score 3 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 21 '10 at 12:34

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There is also a gparted Live CD

answered Oct 21 '10 at 12:34

gWaldo

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score 2 · Answer 5 · answered Jul 19 '10 at 12:15

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There are a number of programs that do this, some of them have been mentioned already. If you're interested in something that also offers a compliment of other tools in addition to several partition managers you might try MultiBoot USB.

answered Jul 19 '10 at 12:15

joeqwerty

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score 1 · Answer 6 · answered Jul 19 '10 at 06:06

While I myself voted for GParted, there is also EASEUS Partition Master Home Edition (Sure, not for business).

I`v been doing job with that soft, but once some errors occured (nothing was corrupt, but couldn't finish the job), I tried GParted to do the same and it succeeded.

So what do we use instead of PartitionMagic now that Symantec's killed it?

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