Partition magic

[docusk]

I have, as some of you know, dual booted my system. XP is on a 250GB HDD and Vista is on a 160 GB HDD. Problem, for whatever reason I then partitioned the Vista drive. I know what you're thinking, poor old doc, out of his tiny mind again but still, what's done....
I'm sure I did it with my old copy of Partition magic from about 1997 anyway, I don't need the partition (never did you silly old goat!) so I went into admin>disk management>storage and deleted it. There had never been anything on it. So, now it is deleted but it's still there! Looking at D: there are still two partitions, one called D: and the other shows nothing.
I used to be able to invoke a slider in P Magic to increase the main drive's size but I can't do it from management and P Magic just blows me out when I try to invoke it from the .exe file, says it can't allow me to access the disk in DOS.
I really don't want to fork out to Symantec (new owners) for a copy I shall only use once, so any suggestions out there in brainbox land? ( apart from don't meddle!)

Getting on OK with Vista and may start to use it as my main app. Need a bit more knowledge, at my age the learning curve is pretty steep.

docusk

[Ol'Tunzafun]

The Easus Partition Manager looks like it would be easy to use. Most of the free ones are not. The graphical interface will be familiar to PM users. It will also create boot disks (floppy or CD) like PM does.
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/easeuspartitionman.html

[docusk]

Hey ol' Tunzafun,
I've just had tunzafun with the application.
In less than 15 minutes, I downloaded it, unzipped it, installed it, started it up and did the business with the D drive which is now 160 GB with lots of space.
Easy Peasy lemon squeezy as my grandchildren say.
And we might pay $39.99 from S......c for what looks and acts much the same. In fact, it resembles Partition Magic as I recall it.
Excellent freeware. I'm going back to the site to make a donation right now,

Well done - may I call you Tunz?
docusk

[Sterling_Aug]

This should be a lesson to never use old versions of system utilities on new hardware and new operating systems. Always check first if there are newer versions available and what problems you could have before using the old versions on the new system.

Backup, backup, and then backup again!!!

[Ol'Tunzafun]

Glad that worked out for you docusk.

may I call you Tunz?
I would be honoured to count you among those who do.

[docusk]

Sterling. Yes, got it all backed up with Norton Ghost so that's a pretty regular thing with me now. I probably need to upgrade that now as I don't think it has even heard of Vista. It's version 9. According to the manual, saw the light of day in
2004

How refreshing it always is to get advice from here and not to be 'Talked down to' as sometimes happens, even in the local Computer Group with whom I share my reports of success.

docusk

[Midknyte]

Ghost 9 is very old. It is based on Drive Image 7, which was ok in it's day. Acronis TrueImage is the way to go now.

Swissknife is another freebie partitioner.
http://www.compuapps.com/download/Swissknife/swissknife.htm

[rmanet]

The Easus Partition Manager looks like it would be easy to use. Most of the free ones are not. The graphical interface will be familiar to PM users. It will also create boot disks (floppy or CD) like PM does.
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/easeuspartitionman.html

My son uses Partition Magic; didn't know Easus has something similar - great idea.

Their data recovery software has helped me with mechanically and/or almost dead drives (according to the data rescue labs here in town who wanted to quote 1600 to put the HDD into a"clean room")

Worked equally well with some floppies some friend's client gave him with tax records - the floppie was 10 years old and I still get everything off of it, including a large QB Pro backup file.

I've earned 500% on my investment in it and it hasn't let me down yet.

[Ol'Tunzafun]

Their (Easus') data recovery software has helped me with mechanically and/or almost dead drives (according to the data rescue labs here in town who wanted to quote 1600 to put the HDD into a"clean room")

Worked equally well with some floppies some friend's client gave him with tax records - the floppie was 10 years old and I still get everything off of it, including a large QB Pro backup file.

I've earned 500% on my investment in it and it hasn't let me down yet.

That's good to know. This free partition manager should go a long way toward giving their recovery software some favorable exposure.

[BipolarBill]

Actually, it's spelled "Easeus" as in Ease Us.

[Ol'Tunzafun]

Oops, I knew that didn't look right; thank you for pointing that out.
I should add that I have used their partition recovery software and found it easier to use than anything else on the market.

[rmanet]

Actually, it's spelled "Easeus" as in Ease Us.

begging many pardons from all - you guys forgot to mention my other typing errors in that post :rolleyes:

[docusk]

Don't worry Rmanet. Everyone is very kind and diplomatic on this forum. Just look back at some of mine and you'll see what typos really are!

docusk