Partitioning with Windows 7

[roving]

Has anyone use Partition Wizard 4 for doing partitioning operations in 7? It looks good and is offered Free for home use and also works with Vista. I looked at Disk Management and it appears clunky and incomplete and difficult.

 

[zigzag3143]

Has anyone use Partition Wizard 4 for doing partitioning operations in 7? It looks good and is offered Free for home use and also works with Vista. I looked at Disk Management and it appears clunky and incomplete and difficult.

Agreed. you have a question?

ken

 

[patio]

The 1st sentence is a question...

 

[Galen]

Has anyone use Partition Wizard 4 for doing partitioning operations in 7? It looks good and is offered Free for home use and also works with Vista. I looked at Disk Management and it appears clunky and incomplete and difficult.

Yes. When I upgraded to Win7 I was left with a small D: partition that was no longer needed for restore files. I deleted it with Partition Wizard and resized C: to take up the slack. I didn't find it very intuitive, but when I'd watched the website videos it made more sense. It worked perfectly. The .iso file version to make a Partition Wizard boot disk might well be handy too, so I've burnt it to disk - hoping never to need it!

Regards,

Bob

 

[esteban]

What did you not like about Disk Management?

 

[DocBrown]

The 1st sentence is a question...

:roflmao: Good one patio :roflmao:

ZigZag is just tired of reading too many posts

 

[roving]

What did you not like about Disk Management?

I have used Partition Magic for years and I like the graphic interface and Partition Wizard is nearly the same in most respects. Easy to use and understand and it works great. I just resized my C: drive from 186 GB down to 100GB and it did so in 12 minutes. Worked fine for me.

 

[esteban]

What did you not like about Disk Management?

I have used Partition Magic for years and I like the graphic interface and Partition Wizard is nearly the same in most respects. Easy to use and understand and it works great. I just resized my C: drive from 186 GB down to 100GB and it did so in 12 minutes. Worked fine for me.

Right, but what don't you like about Disk Management?

 

[patio]

In all fairness Disk Management lacks a lot of features that can be found in 3rd party tools...
It's been this way for awhile.

 

[Frostmourne]

Still does the basics though. Don't need software for that.

 

[Galen]

What did you not like about Disk Management?

I haven't used any similar software for many years, so I found it a tad tricky to understand how to use it. The online videos helped. I used Partition Magic years ago and, from memory anyway, found it much simpler to use. However, this does most of the same when you've worked it out.

Regards,

Bob

 

[patio]

Easus has a Home Edition FREE partitioning tool that works rather well...

 

[roving]

Thanks to all for your responses and comments. I just prefer a graphic interface as that is what I am accustomed to. Much quicker for me. I did my desktop that was just upgraded to 7, as well as a new HP '7' laptop and it was all done without a hitch, so the Wizard did just as it said it would.

It is certainly nice to have this great forum just a click away. A real help to me on occasion. Thanks!

 

[gregrocker]

Over in the Installation & Setup trenches, we are finding Partition Wizard the best app for extricating from Dual Boots:

1)Back up all files and create an image backup stored externally in case u need to start over.

1) boot using PW disk and mark Win7 partition active if it is not already

2) delete the XP/Vista partition

3) if you want to move Win7 onto the deleted OS space, right click 7> Move/Resize and drag border over to encompass deleted space

4) After operations finish, boot into Win7 installer and run Startup Repair 3 times, as there are multiple issues to fix.

When finished, create a Win7 backup image so reinstalls are never again necessary.