My apologies for a hasty comment. A word to the wise, if you have stupid McDonald's antivirus installed, you may need to temporarily disable it for the bootable media creator to work properly.

mike, There are no significant rescue options built into the WinPE media at all, in fact since you cannot create repair or split partitions with this product it is better at destroying an existing windows installation than it is at doing anything other than resizing a system partition offline. This WinPE enables a non-admin user to boot from the media the ISO was burned to and then delete and perminantly erase the real windows partition and factory recovery partitions if a system is left with the option to boot from removable media is enabled!

Jack,
If you right click on the drive segment in the mapping, there is a "Change Drive Letter" option there. I hope that helps.

jboy, Jack said "change the dvd drive's leter"

which is an odd thing to want to do with a mass storage device partition resizer tool.... as this program has NO FUNCTIONALITY involving a DVD drive or the letter that is allocated to it!

Jack, DVD drives don't have partitions and are not even listed in this programs interface so why should you expect to be able to do anything to DVD drives or media with this program?

TK, Why to change one drive's letter if you dont have the ability to change them all?

Jack, It does have the ability to change ALL the massstorage devices, as oopsed to ATAPI ISO/UDF devices that are not partitionable device, on a given system. You could just as easily say why include the ability to format drives when you cannot format optical rewritable drives... or to erase a hard drive when you cannot erase any rewritable optical media either... the answer is simple the program is NOT for optical media so its not supposed to have any functionality for optical media which is a completely different class of computer hardware to magnetic and solid state flash mass storage devices, ever seen a functioning master boot record on a CD-ROM or DVD-ROM or BD-ROM etc? Not all windows Devices given drive letters are equal, some are not partionable and are therefore irrelevant to utilities such as this and to include them in the program when the program can do nothing useful with them because that is not its purpose would just result in end user confusion as to why can't the end user format a CD-ROM to NTFS or Why can't I resize the partion on my Network Attached Storage device in the program because mapped network shares are shown so you can change just the drive letters the shares are mapped to or delete the mapping... and waste valuable developer and support team man hours for zero increase in program value.
Do you understand now?

TK, I understand optical media are unrelative to disk managment.I just notice that to do a full "change drives letters" job the best way is to use windows disk managment because you can see and change all drives letters.

Jack, on that point I almost completly agree ! (See Note) Though sometimes you will need to reboot the computer to re-use a recently changed out drive letter as under certain circumstances Microsft Windows fails to flush its record of in-use drive letters and only a reboot will re-populate it. Note you CANNOT change ALL drive letters in windows disk managment interface as it does NOT list mapped network drives. There are MANY examples of operations offered in paid for programs that are MUCH easier and obviously cheaper to perform using windows own user interface IF you know where they are. But that was not the issue, it makes no sense to pull in optical media interfaces into a mass storage partition resizing tool. Just as to be complete it woud be crazy to pull in mapped network storage drive letter control either but just as relevent as optical media drive letters. Now if it was marketed as a drive letter changing tool then it would make sense to have it cater for all cases where drive letters are asociated with some kind of data device. Now here's what I consider a more relevent complaint... In windows and with NTFS one can not only address a NTFS volume by drive letter but by hard linking it to an empty folder in another NTFS volume so it "apears" as part of a completely different drives filesystem... you can do this in the same interface you use to add/change/remove drive letter in Windows disk managment but there is no mention of this feature in this giveaway... In fact if you already have a drive or two that are linked to your C: drives filesystem in this way to move off folders to another physical drive or partitions on the same drive to avoid user files fragmenting the operating system files or reduce the real world physical writes to a SSD system drive then this program may just trash a nicely working system by stripping out such hard links (probably not the correct term but hopefully you get what I mean)

Downed pilot,

"all this can be done for free and without any hassle by native means through "disk management""

Not really -- sorry.

Downed pilot, there are SOME things you cannot do with Windows Disk Managment like wipe unallocated space or Wipe a partition... and some things you can do in Windows Disk Managment that you cannot do in this like create new partitions in freed up unallocated space after shrinking a partition...

Peter Smith, program comes preactivated, no need to register.

hussein,

Use it with the free version download, resizer-free.zip, which works with 32 or 64 bit Windows.

WCS.Tony, GAOTD always renames the exe to Setup.exe. Even when it does not set up anything. That's there way of doing their work.

WCS.Tony, Re "Not sure I want to trust my disk drive to a company that makes so many basic mistakes."

The readme is written by the Giveawayoftheday team, not by the maker of the software.

gergn, And the Giveawayoftheday team determines how the program should be installed. All program providersI must adhere to the GOTD rules.

WCS.Tony,

"SETUP.EXE does not seem install the software, it just seems to run it?"

There's no real difference between the files in the program's folder after doing a regular install, & the files in the GOTD download. If you install Resizer-Free it adds shortcuts & uninstall info to the registry, but otherwise the results are the same. My *guess* is that someone just fumbled with the file names, e.g. using setup.exe rather than dm.resizer.exe. So if it bugs you, you could try renaming one or all files with setup in their name, or install Resizer-Free, then use the program's folder & contents instead of the GOTD download.

namy, yes you can, if by full mean 1 partition disk and split it on two.

namy,
Sure, ;)
That's exactly what it does, divides partitions. I for example used a similar program to divide the 1GB hdd into 4 partitions.
Just remember to leave enough space for the Windows partition.
I'm going to take this one, being portable so I can use it on other drives.

xprt007, I think you confuse GB with TB..... it's a huge difference ;-)

Wolf Brosh,
You are right, I meant 1 terabyte (1000GB), the size of my notebook's HDD.
;)

Funny, thcomment form captcha loads very late after several attempts of errors of wrong captcha, even if none is loaded at the time, making one wonder what's talking about!! Had almost given up, then it came.

namy,
but ... if you have "one full disk" ... what good is it, even if you partition it? Makes more sense of you have lots of space ... or am I getting you wrong?

xprt007, thanks for the reply. I would like to divide it because i read somewhere that in case of virus infection etc, it minimizes damage. It also helps hdd reading speed because files are not written all over place as it is now divided and more organized?

namy, not with this or any resize product... if your only partition is full there is nowhere for the program to work in and make space to build a second file system and all its data structures as well as the other data that also filled the drive before you even started proccessing... Plus this is a partition RESIZER not creator so even if you got a bigger drive and moved the existing partition over to it this is not designed to create an extra partition in the free space... at least Partition Resizer Pro 3.5.0 cannot create new partitions... cannot comment on 3.6.0 as the vendor has not released that version on their site yet and the download on this site is broken so this 3.6.0 giveaway cannot be tested yet.

Sony Georgiev, Try running the program before giving advice :) there is NO partiton SPLIT partition option in this program!

xprt007, nope THIS program does not SPLIT or CREATE partitions. You can resize or move or copy a partition or delete iit but NO split or create a new partition in unallocated space. general partition managment programs may be able to SPLIT and CREATE as well as RESIZE and MOVE and so on but this program CANNOT it is called Partition Resizer for a reason... that's basicly all it does!

namy,

"I have just one full disk. Can i divide it into 2 different sized partitions by this app?"

Regardless what partitioning software you use the way partitioning works is to divide a storage drive into separate pieces or sections. BUT, you can only create a partition where no partition already exists. So to split a drive into 2 partitions, you 1st defragment the drive, IF it's a conventional hard drive [NOT SSD], shrink the existing partition, eliminating some of the free [unused] storage space, then add a new partition to the [now unused] storage space that's left.

If your existing drive is literally full, then you may not have enough free space to accommodate another partition.

jpmalonesr, the software has been pre-activated by GAOTD :D

jpmalonesr, the license file is impr.lkeys

jpmalonesr, if you have version 3.5.0 from the previous giveaway.... just build a bootable ISO and then extract the IM-Magic sub folder from the BOOT.WIM on the ISO and you have a portable folder you can copy to a USB stick if you want.

Quach Phat Thang, NO IT HAS NOT! It has not even been supplied yet... the zip file is incomplete and contains at least one truncated file called SETUP.EXE that is not a valid executable!

unruly, Re "you have to install it?"

You don't. You can't.

unruly,

"how is it portable if you have to install it?"

They misnamed the files, so you're really not running the full setup routine like you would be if you download their free version. BUT, OTOH you do install IM-Magic Partition Resizer Pro, because running the app installs a driver, so it is not *strictly* portable.

Robert Sharp, the software has been pre-activated by GAOTD :D

Robert Sharp, the license file is "impr.lkeys"

Brian, the software has been pre-activated by GAOTD :D

Brian, the license file is "impr.lkeys"