EASUS Partition Master Professional

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Rich OBrien EASUS Partition Master Professional does a good job and takes the place of Partition Magic. It is important that partition software be updated because Microsoft has quietly released new versions of Windows NTF for formatting drives which are totally incompatible with the ancient Semantec Norton Partition Magic. Partition Magic hasn't been updated in ten or more years and is likely to never be updated because Semantec Norton bought PowerQuest, the original maker of Partition Magic, not for Partition Magic but rather to own its Drive Image program which Semantec then renamed Semantec Norton Ghost. EASUS Partition Master Professional looks and acts like Partition Magic. Anyone with Windows VISTA or Windows 7 needs EASUS Partition Master Professional which they normally sell for $39.95.
I've tried other partitioning programs but found none other that actually get the job done.

May 14 2010 at 7:21am

Rick Truell Just a small correction to Rich's comment. Symantec did not buy PowerQuest so they could get Drive Image and rename it to Ghost. Norton Ghost has existed for a very long time, and for most of PowerQuest's life, Ghost and Drive Image were competing products. I remember testing out both Ghost and Drive Image before deciding that Ghost was the better product.

I do agree with the rest of Rich's comments concerning Partition Magic. Back in the day, PM was *the* partitioning software, the one that *all other* partitioning software was compared to and strived to emulate. Unfortunately, when Symantec bought PQ, they made a couple of minor upgrades to PM and then abandoned it. For a while, that didn't matter, as PQ did a good job with it and PM had few problems. Unfortunately, PM's biggest limitation is that it can't handle hard drives greater than 300 GB in size. Since we passed that point some years ago, PM has been rendered essentially useless. Sad...but it illustrates Symantec's general indifference to its software products.

I've never tried Partition Master, so I have no idea how good or bad it is. When I first ran into PM's 300 GB limitation, I ended up replacing it with the freeware 'gparted' (http://gparted.sourceforge.net/), a Linux-based program. You can get it as a Live-CD, so you don't need to use Linux. From a quick look at Partition Master's features, it appears that the only things it can do that gparted can't is FAT32 to NTFS conversions and dealing with Dynamic Volumes. I don't know how frequently such things normally have to be dealt with...for me, the only time I do a filesystem conversion is at the very beginning of a Windows XP install (and I let Windows deal with it) and I've never heard of Dynamic Volumes until now! OTOH, gparted can handle a number of different file systems that Partition Master can't (Linux, BSD's, etc.) which is of importance to me...but may not be of much interest to the typical Windows user :-)

May 14 2010 at 4:08pm

Nico Westerdale Note that we have had Partition Manager featured:

http://www.bitsdujour.com...n-manager/

May 18 2010 at 3:32am