The GParted LiveCD is soooo much better!

so easy to use, thanks gaotd

Thank you GAOTD. This product is exactly what I was looking for. Although Windows XP does have a disk manager it will not allow you to resize a drive because it doesn't see that any unused space was there. When installing a FRESH operating system onto a Western Digital New harddrive I came upon a very interesting scenario. The hardrive disk told me to use the dos version of the manager to format the drive and then to install the operating system. It stated after the installation of the operating system to utilize the windows version of the Western Digital manager to resize the drive. Sounded pretty simple right?? NOT. Well the disk manager stated that I needed to use the DOS version....the DOS version stated that I needed to use the Windows version. Windows XP manager was completely out of play because althought this was a NEW 160 gig hard drive....it did not the the remaining 37 gig of unused unformated space.

This software fixed the problem within seconds.

Thanks Again GAOTD

I had a problem with my "C" Drive running short of memory, 150 Mb free. Windows XP help proved fruitless.

Purely coincidentally, I found EASEUS Partition Manager free on this site.

Downloaded, installed, and the partition re-sized without any problem, nor need for instructions.

I'm very grateful.

Thanks.

Don

#79
Wipe the items in your temp folders and reinstall the program:
C:\Documents and Settings\..\Local Settings\Temp
C:\Windows\Temp

For those who are still interested:
Easus does give quick support!
I wrote them yesterday and I received an answer this very morning.

To make a bootable cd with 'Super Fdisk' on it(the DOS version of EASEUS Partition Manager) do not use the wizard ,but burn the iso file in your programs folder on a cd with 'Imageburn' or 'Nero'

Thanks 68 for your post. Addendum to #44 post.

I have read before being a version of Acronis.

I understand the Seagate s/w is a limited version of Acronis which works best on Seagate only drives, and especially when copying data from a partition to another. I suggest downloading the hard drive manufacturer's OEM software which usually has this utility. I have had data corruption during partition coping with non-matching drives & software. Another serious concern about partitioning.

The big name hard drive OEM's offer such software. And I buy only Seagate because of the 5 year no hassell warranty. And never had a problem with Power Quest Partition Magic with any brands of drives although not for the faint of heart. And I didn't get a dime for this plug.

To other readers here, partitioning drives is a good idea in case you need to restore the pc's boot drive C, and not loose the programs that you added to drive C and the activations as with the wonderful GAoTD software. And, sometimes upgrade type cd re-installs (ie: like M$soft 98/ME to XP) will cause a re-activation of your OS. Much about this on the web being a 10 point check of you pc that prohibits activation with some re-installs on upgraded pc's especially due to failed motherboards. An experience ($$$) you will never forget.

Copying drive C to a partition will allow a restore to a safe operating point, a slow process although whereas a restore cd will erase your addon software. I copy and save activation keys anyway.

I'm not trying to negative this GAoTD software - only to advise trial and error before you rely on any developer's partition & copy utilities. Really serious software.

The system restore feature in XP is good if used correctly however the pop-up suggesting would you like to free up disk space will erase older restore points - bad M$soft-bad.

Thanks GAoTD team for a wonderful website.

And thanks for reading,
Ken

This comment is in response to lifeiscruel, left at 3am on Jan 1 2008: http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/easeus-partition-manager/#comment-76553

While Windows provides some functionality such as changing the partition size, it does not offer resizing of the NTFS file system while preserving the contents. Normally you will have to back up the data and reformat that partition.

A likely alternative is live Linux CD of 'parted' in 'gparted' and 'qtparted' flavors. The live Linux CD of about 50MB* can repartition, move, and resize NTFS, Fat32, Fat16, ext2 and ext3 file systems.

It's not uncommon for someone to use a tool like this to prepare for installing Linux.

The unofficial Debian Installer Loader for Windows at http://www.goodbye-windows.com/ has an integrated 'parted' to resize file systems prior to installing Linux. There's plenty of information about it on the website if you need to know more about it.

Good luck!

* I don't recall totally.

Superb Program , I have just used it and it worked amazingly to process deleting a partition, resizing 2 remaining partitions ALL without a hitch, where its lookalike Paragon Partition Manager had failed dismally even after several attempts.
Goodbye Paragon - Hello and welcome Easeus !
Highly recommended piece of software - GET IT!

I can guarantee that this soft ware works easily and does the job perfectly. I tested this software out on my brothers pc in which i erased one partition and made the windows partition bigger. The only problem I had was that grub gave error 17 meaning that it didn't recognise the new partition configuration, so I just plopped in the windows xp disk went into recovery console and did fixmbr and fixboot, then I restarted the computer and it worked like a charm. Great piece of software!

To #7 this is the full version. You need to click on unallocated space in order to create a new partition.

To all those who are complaining about this program, you are right of course. You should never use any program made by those evil Chinese, particuarly if it is given away for free.

Or to be more to the point, if you have got nothing better to do than complain about FREE software, how about you get a life and find something better to do than criticising devleopers who are nice enough to give away their software for free, and criticising give away of the day.

For a freebee it is an excellent product. I re-sized C D and E partitions on an older XP machine in which C was too small. In the end worked fine. Beware though: 1. After re-booting I got the dreaded BSOD (blue screen of death) and almost had a heart-attack! 2. Took a long, long, long, time. Also got to 90% done in minutes, then took 2 hours!! to do the other 10% and no progress screen tells you what is going on. Also the re-boot disk check takes for ever. Only for the strong hearted.

Iam seeing reading alot of negativity directed at EASUS, I have purchased EASUS Data Recovery Wizard Professional and use it from my USB Pedrive and it is second to none, it's by far the very best recovery program I have had the privledge of utilizing. Bummer that this partition interface will not install on my Vista Ultimate, but as for the data recovery wizard professional i know for a fact they make top notch software... Thanks for hearing my bit, peace and happy new year!

<(___)~

#56- the non-techie- I can't see any reason you would want to partition the new external drive, if you intend to put music and videos on it. I like to keep a data partition separate from the Operating system partition, as I feel it is safer there from software problems or malware, since I don't backup religiously at this time. You could use your new drive for backups, at least until you get it too full. If you don't do backups, at least copy your "my documents" folder to your new drive once in a while. But if you intend to stay a non-techie, don't start messing with partitions. I would say that was when I crossed over- about a year ago, setting up a new computer with Vista and XP.

#56 No, you "don't" NEED partitions, except your primary partition

splitting hard drives into many logical drives is idiotic by todays standards
it was necessary with windows 98 and large drives.
wanna slow down your system? split a hard drive into multiple partitions

this is archaic technology and arcain thinking

multi partitions are stupid unless you need one for a different operating system

I have tried throughout the day to install today's download, "EASEUS Partition Manager" and keep getting the same error message:

“An error (-5004 : 0x80070005) has occurred while running the setup. Please make sure you have finished any previous setup and closed other applications.
if the error still occurs, please contact your vendor: EASEUS
(http://www.partition-tool.com)”

I have no other process running and I have booted Windows XP Pro after disabling all startup programs by running "msconfig".

Please help. I need a partitioning program.

Bigun

I continue to be amazed by the bigotry and stupidity of the comments here. The anti-Chinese comments here are clearly nothing more than racial and ethnic bigotry and hatred. While the Chinese do lots of bad things, so do Americans and citizens of every other country. Where does most spam come from? The U.S. We also have plenty of hackers, crackers, identity thieves, intellectual property thieves, and every other type of criminal. So, you're upset because people reported problems on their forum. What do you think support forums are for? Are people who didn't have any problems going to post "Your product worked great for me, this product support forum is the only place I found to express my undying gratitude"? Or is it more likely that people with actual support problems are going to post there? As for the developers not being able to solve some problems, you've clearly never developed any software and tried to do remote debugging. If there's no ability to get a trace of what happened on the user's computer, and they followed the directions, it's awfully tough to figure out what happened. And if the problem only occurs on a particular type, make, or model of hardware that you don't have access to, you're unlikely to be able to deliver a fix within a short timeframe. Offering an apology and a refund is an acceptable solution. How many U.S. software developers are even willing to acknowledge errors in their products, much less fix them, and much less still, offer a refund? OK, let's talk about other disk-maintenance software developers. Within a year or so of purchasing a computer running Windows XP, I tried to find a decent disk defragmenter. One that I tried was Diskeeper (formerly Executive Software), the company which provides the built-in Windows disk defragmenters to Microsoft. You know, the built-in defragmenters which don't work worth a crap, in XP report ten times more fragmentation than actually exists (hey, what's a decimal place or two?), in Vista, apparently works so bad that they dropped the graphics displaying actual fragmentation and defragmentation progress, and whose retail products has been unable to achieve Microsoft Vista certification? Diskeeper has just implemented online directory defragmenting, something PerfectDisk has had for five years (and has been Vista-certified for almost a year). Diskeeper spams you, sending you emails pestering you to buy their products a couple of times a week (versus PerfectDisk, which only sends out an email every few months). Anyway, back to what I was saying about Diskeeper and XP. The computer I had was set up by the manufacturer to have a small FAT32 system partition, and a large NTFS data partition. Now, Microsoft will claim that a single large NTFS partition is the way to go, and will offer better performance. Anybody who has actually used FAT32 and NTFS will tell you that's not true. While NTFS has lots of useful features, and is clearly better for large partitions, its performance on small partitions is significantly worse than FAT32. The first problem I ran into was that Diskeeper would take forever to defragment the FAT32 partition, even though FAT32 was still the dominant format on consumer computers. Diskeeper told me to convert the FAT32 partition to NTFS (this is a one-way conversion, unless you purchase third-party products). I did that, and that computer's performance has been substantially worse ever since. Next, on every offline defragmentation, when Windows restarted, it would report that critical disk structures were damaged, and that it was using backup copies. Yet, Diskeeper is a product which many people blindly swear is great, simply because they use aggressive marketing and hype (and greatly overprice their products to pay for the marketing, and charge you a fortune for higher-end versions which have features that should be in the base version). What about Microsoft? I could produce an encyclopedia's worth of information on the endless bugs and design (or lack of design) screw-ups in Windows, and Microsoft's total failure to provide any kind of support. Got a problem with Windows? Too bad, you have to go through your OEM, which couldn't care less, because they didn't develop the code. What about Symantec? Dang, I could go on forever. Then there are the "open-source is great, everyone fixes it so it doesn't have any bugs or security issues" proponents. Do you develop open-source code? Do most people? Of course not, very few people are willing to work for free. The great myth of open-source is that everyone works on it. The reality is that most open-source projects fail, most are developed by one or two programmers who get tired of working for free, and the large projects, like Linux, actually mostly use paid programmers (Microsoft's competitor's dump literally billions of dollars into open-source programming; if you're not getting paid, you're a chump). The reality is that there's very little difference in security and reliability between Linux and Windows. The reality is that Firefox is filled with bugs and security holes, and is only marginally better in those respects than Internet Explorer. One of the better suggestions from GOTD users was Launchy (open-source). The developer just released version 2.0, supposedly after it passed beta testing. It has so many severe and obvious bugs, it shouldn't have even passed the developer's first use of it. What's the point of this long rant? Software quality across the industry is stunningly bad, and support is virtually non-existent. I find your singling-out of the Chinese to be offensive and racist. I'd like to see comments from people who have actually used this (I don't have any partitions I need to change, and apparently I'm going to have to test EASUS Partition Manager from Safe Mode, since it claims my disks are in-use).

Yes it is a Partition Magic ripoff, but doesn't seem to be that bad.

Installed fine and ran with no problems on XP. Haven't actaully done any partitoning yet as I dont need to do any partitioning at the moment. But maybe in a few months or years I will so I'll keep this installed. I never going to reinstall windows so I never have to worry about the lack of serial number provided with programs here, since I can installed them once and never have to worry about reinstalling.

There are better partitioning programs around I'm sure but since this is free I'm not complaining.

Also I don't have an issue with Chinese software - my antivirus software is Chinese and works really well. Jiangmin KV2007 - I'm just watiting for the English release of KV2008.

#52 - Wanted to let you know that I kept trying to vote "YES", I found this review helpful, but it won't record my vote. Keep getting a little box that says "Internet Explorer Error".

Nevertheless, I DO think your comment was very helpful.

I was looking for a program that could resize the current partitions on my HDD. It seems that the OEM partitioned my drive so I have both a C: and a D: on the same disc but made the C: too small for anything other than the OS. This was frustrating as I own several older programs that won't install anywhere else but the C: drive, so I was very close to max capacity.

This program allowed me to resize my C: and D: partitions/drives to give me a little more "breathing room" on C:. It was quick, easy, and to the best of my ability I don't believe that I lost anything in the process.

That being said, I frankly can't see ever having to do this again (see comment #62), or create any more partitions/drives on my HDD, so I feel that once is enough and won't press my luck with this program. It did the one thing I wanted it to do and now I'm going to say Adios and dump it. Time to quit while I'm ahead...

Thanks GAOTD for providing me with what I needed, but while I got my one use out of it I won't be keeping it. For the other poster who also had a C: drive that was partitioned too small (can't remember the comment number), then this program might be what you need - but you might also want to do what I'm doing and "use it then lose it".

Cheers - Jonathan

This is a very good program, I used it to create a new partition for my documents and it worked well, first it wanted me to restart the computer then in the middle of the boot process it started creating the partitions and then it restarted again, and then it booted to the logon screen. The only thing is, this program restarts your computer too much, if you use Puppy Linux or a similar Linux system you will probably have the gParted partition manager which doesn't restart the computer so much because the drive that you want to resize is in use by the operating system, but I might use this in the future.

to #15: forum on alternatives to GAOTD does not seem to be used.
to #66 & 64: are you SURE it's ALL uninstalled???

Let's see. In light of the Chinese Seagate/Maxtor spyware incident, do I want to use software from possibly the same people who infected those hard drives to try and clean and erase any traces of their own spyware from those same compromised (insecure) storage devices? I'm not that stupid, and so I suggest everyone pass up on this offering.

1) No free technical support 2) No free upgrades to future versions
3) Strictly non-commercial usage What do you want for free?
This is delving into risky territory.
Safest way is to use another drive (USB is easiest) to backup your system (full) and procede with deleting and creating partitions of the desired size. Restore your system from the 2nd drive. Done, and you have that backup you never need ;-) Yep, it does take longer and has more steps. I like the benefits of a clean drive.
Drives cost about the same as good (re)partitioning software, but the software can't store data after. (bonus time!)
All software leaves a "fingerprint" of some kind on the drive. An inactive (or active) "virus", by my thinking. This type software usually has tracks in the boot sector of the drive or partition table. I don't need that. The average user should steer clear of this type of "tool". Keep the drive clean!! Use the drive manufactures maintenance and install software, and have fresh, good backups on another drive. Works every time with NO data loss. Hard to argue with success. How valuable is your data? or time?

Yeah yeah, it's just a demo... And I must search around the world again only to resize a 20Ggg hdd...

#44 "The best in my opinion, easy to use, and free, is the Seagate Disk Wizard which comes with new drives and can be d/l from Seagate.
Partition, erase, build boot disks, copy OS to new & existing drives including external, seems to do it all. I backup all my OS’s to an external drive."

The new Seagate Disk Wizard utilities are actually provided by Acronis, so it is no surprise that they work well.
==================================
To others, Disk Partitioning was much more necessary back in the days of tape backups. For instance, in order to limit the amount of data to be backed up on a single tape, installed programs and or the OS might be stored on one partition, while data would be stored on a different partition which would be backed up daily onto tape. Since the programs seldom changed, they did not need to be backed up and could indeed just be re-installed in the event of a crash. Of course, in those days, a computer might only have 10-15 programs installed. Nowadays, we might have several hundred, which we would not want to install individually in the event of a crash. There are different reasons for partitioning today, like multiple boot systems, as well as simply reducing the size of huge disk drives, but that is another story.

#52:

Have to agree with you here...seems GAOTD is offering more & more suspect progs these days.


"We are sorry to tell you that we can't find what the material properties are in the material situation. We have to tell you that the problem we can't solve.
We are sorry for making you so much inconvenience."

http://www.easeus.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9220&sid=b6bf98502d6059520895c0f1f8af1a10


Oh dear lol


Use @ your own risk!

In accordance with #6 (and possibly some others—I was in a rush), this is the same company that created the junky program that got a 77% thumbs down and everyone thought was a conspiracy. I had originally wanted this program, but after looking at previous comments, I felt sure that it'd probably wipe my HD. No go for me.

#64—I'm surprised you could uninstall: See http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/data-security-wizard/#more-2304, comment nine.

This program works as advertised. No it does not support Vista and says as much.
The program is much the same as Partition Magic which I have used for a long time. Yes, I checked out the functions.
Every function worked as indicated.

In closing, I have two internal Hard Drives and three external Drives via USB. The three external HD's are rated at 500 gig each.
My System is on its own internal drive (80 Gig) All told I have 19 Primary & Logical Partitions.

A BIG Thumbs UP for EASEUS Partition Manager.

The Program complains about my "bad disk", and it says it is the second partition - this partition has been resized by gparted. Everything runs fine for over a year. I deinstalled the program.

#1 Commenter - My experience (30 years in IT) is that most people who say "I really need this" really don't and rarely even fully understand the utility.

If you think you have need to make more than 1 or 2 changes to your partitions on a home pc ever, you are asking for SERIOUS trouble. The kind only a full system backup will save you from. If you need an additional partition - get an additional drive, or use ...

GpartEd (free) and
Acronis Disk Director (reasonable price)

which are proven (for YEARS) in professional and casual situations alike while this company has a demonstrated bad track record with previous product.

I tried PartitionMagic (older version) but it couldn't solve my problem. Downloaded this program and tried. It made my day! Thanks.

I asked a partitioning question at a computer store a short while back. I was told that the only time a HD can SAFELY be partitioned is when there is nothing on the HD except for the OS. Anything can be lost, or corrupted, including the OS. I asked him about it because I have 2 virtual drives, C and D drive. C drive for the OS system type of files and D drive for programs. I did 2 drives because of file management. Now I wish I had made drive C larger, but it is apparently to late. Anyway, trying to partition a drive with data you dont want to compromise, best stay away from any partition software, period.

I am here almost every day and enjoy the loads of titles the GOTD offers. I do not use them all, but I am sure there are some that do. Todays offer I needed and I thank you GOTD.

Excellent product except for the WINZIP requirement. I run Peazip and since I don't own Winzip after it extracts the program you have to go to the directory and run the SETUP program. Bit cumbersome there. After that, installation does allow you to choose where to install and whether you want icons. Now to the meat of the product. I have a very partitioned disk and so I let Easeus Partition manager take my largest -- right next to my smallest -- make that smaller, by just dragging it smaller and then going over to the smallest and enlarging it with the unallocated disk space. Worked like a charm though it required rebotting -- naturally -- and reloading XP and then so the Windows system is updated, rebooting again. This was no different than partition magic. I have a few other machines I would like to try this with but so far, PERFECT. Thanks. Nick

Good, doesn't seem to use many resources...

Question from a non-techie:

I just bought an external 250 GB hard drive, but haven't opened it yet. Should I make partitions on it and why? I don't even know what partitions are.

I plan to store videos and songs on the drive.

Thanks.

I have been wanting this type of program for a couple of months. It just so happens that I cannot install this on the laptop I want to partition, because I had to bring it to a computer store for them to fix a malfunctioning wireless card. I had a feeling that this would happen. Does anyone know if it is possible to install this on a flash drive?

Thank You!

GSM - thanks for suggesting we read the forums (21 and 22). As Bingo said (35): Scary, very scary!

Superman always said "Up, Up and Away!!" I'll close with:


Activity of free documents repair!

Mike

Reading some of the offerings over the past few months, I am gradually downloading fewer files posted by GAOTD. Worse, today's offering causes me to question GAOTD and who GAOTD associates with. It's almost as if GAOTD likes hanging out at seedy bars and has no problem going home with a diseased stranger.

This partitioning software appears neither innovative nor revolutionary. In fact, it seems a lame attempt at copying [aka ripping off] established company offerings. But, like any hack, the job is done half-assed and once they get your money, they reluctantly refund it, but only if you scream loud enough. [See Forum link.]

GAOTD associating with this basement hack causes me to wonder 1) where did they find this company [which is a stretch calling them a "company"]; and 2) is GAOTD so desperate or lacking in quality control that they would get in bed with these types.

I already told my e-mail account to automatically put GAOTD e-mails into my SPAM folder [since unsubscribe did not work.] After done here I will also remove the site from my favorites folder.

Sidenote: Any sort of manipulation of one's hard disk is a dangerous task. The professional programs [like what I use, Partition Magic] warn over and over again that before making any modifications to one's hard disk to: create a restore point, to back up files and proceed with caution.

This GAOTD simply steers the uninformed to a partitioning program apparently produced by someone in China or other Asian country, someone who cannot speak or write English all that well [see the developer's Forum.]

I know one can argue that people should proceed at their own risk and with caution, but I don't think this Site's operators should be posting "free turds for the asking" as the offerings.

Good luck to those of you who downloaded this program and fried all or part of your hard disk.

Just back from EASEUS forums . . . ahem . . . kinda sounds like the developers are using our computers to "test" their software. This is NOT for novice users, so be careful.
This program could get your 2008 off to a scary and stressful start.
Me, I'm gonna "most honorably" pass on this software.

I don't like Partition Managers, the last time I used one it messed up my whole computer.

I have tried instead "Parted Magic LiveCD v1.9" (which includes GParted), as recommended above by #34 Manitook. Excellent GUI, has a lot of additional utilities.

This will be my freeware Giveaway, for January 1st 2008.

As I said before, regarding "EASEUS Partition Manager", I do not recommend this chinese company, due to the very bad customer service.

Use your "Chi Energy", for better software and service.

Happy New Year 2008.

#5........

I guess you have never been to the " administative tools" are of XP?

you know.. computer management..... then "disk management"?

where you can work on partitions ALL DAY if you like?

lol

Sorry, one more thing.
I want to say thank you to GOTD. I visit your sight everyday and I very often get something useful.

Thanks again. Keep up the good work.
Drew

Comment #22
Thank you for the link. I checked it out. I actually read every post on there. Man, I tell you guys, from what I read this company's tech support is really something. I have been a Software Engineer for almost 20 years. In my opinion there TS is pathetic. Of all the posts I read, they did not help anyone. Seems they had a standard answer for everyone. This one poor guy lost 6Gigs of his HD and was begging for help. All he wanted was to get his HD space back. There solution after much delay, was to give his money back and say so sorry our product can not help you. They even blocked him from there forum. If this happened in my company, I'm telling, some heads would roll. This is completely and totally unacceptable.

I will definitely remeber EaseUs.
Thanks for reading.

@38 (german)werwölfchen
You are quite right!
Just tried it on an other PC.
It even runs like a standalone application when the installation folder is burned on a cd.
(but it will not be able write "BadSectorTest.logs" -so this means an error message)

The best in my opinion, easy to use, and free, is the Seagate Disk Wizard which comes with new drives and can be d/l from Seagate.

Partition, erase, build boot disks, copy OS to new & existing drives including external, seems to do it all. I backup all my OS's to an external drive.

Partition Magic is worth the cost, better GUI. Ever made a second drive "active" in Windows? PqEdit32 saves the day.

Thanks for reading,
Ken

I really need one of these, because the built in windows XP partition manager doesn't resize partitions (the graphical one), and for some reason the DOS one just doesn't want to resize the partition.