I have a brand new 320GB hard drive loaded with a OEM Toshiba Win 7 64bit OS.

I just loaded Acronis True Image and now I want to make a backup of the original install and then start stripping the bloat off this sucker.

I want to partition the hard drive so that I have logical partition D: in addition to the C; partition.

I have a boxed copy of Norton Partition Magic v8.0... is that suitable for the latest Windows etc?

Are there newer friendlier partition tools?

thanks,
mike

Are there newer friendlier partition tools?

 
I was told that the best partition software was the one where you got all the instruments, she gets all the furniture ... and you all part as friends ... no questions asked!

Isn't the point of Acronis to have a separate HD with all your stuff on it, in case C: drive fails?  Just curious...I haven't done this yet, but plan to.  Or maybe I'm missing the point.  Which has happened once or twice before...

Yes, I made my acronis backup to an external drive.

I want a separate logical drive just for basic housekeeping and ease of maintenance.

best,
mike

OIC.

Yeah, I've got some housekeeping to do too.

Real house AND DAW....

Mike,

Win 7's built-in Disk Management is fine for basic operations such as creating and re-sizing partitions.  Just shrink an existing partition and create a new partion  in the empty space.

Murray

2 things...  i use

gparted  or  super fdisk

both free downloads, they are ISO's so you have to get burner software xpburner / iso burner will do

http://www.ptdd.com/manual2.htm

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/


save ya money ..

I bought acronis disk director and it was a pile of junk for me.. wrongly formated a vista drive and wouldn't recover.... oddly when I questioned their 30 day guarentee they didn't do it...

so sod em , gparted is nice.. you can also run it off a pendrive =)

yer I use true image, but sod upgrading it till I have to.

Do you mean it can do so without destroying your data?

I have found out that Partition Magic 8 will not work with Win 7. The last timeI used it was with my old XP laptop where I was able to split a 100Gb drive into a 40/60 split without messing up my windows install.

Can I do that with Windows tools?

best,
mike

mike_mccue

Do you mean it can do so without destroying your data?

Well, I won't say that you can't destroy your data.  (Never underestimate the probability of things going wrong ...)
 
What I can tell you is that I recently use Disk Management to shrink my C drive to 150 GB and create a new partition in the empty space.  Similar thing on the other drive.  It was easy.
 
Personally, I'm not a fan of Acronis after all the problems it caused me a few months ago while trying to clone the drive in my laptop and replace it with a new one.  I ended up buying a copy of Spotmau and used it sucessfully.  Going forward, I'll use the built-in Disk Management first.  If I need to do something more sophisticated, I'll go to Spotmau.
 
If you want more opinions, I'd post this question in the Computer forum.  We're all about post count and food here. 
 
Murray

Thanks Murray it worked great. I had to do a work around because at first it would only try to shrink about half and then I temporarily shut off restore and did a disk clean up. The I was able to shrink all that I wanted.

best,
mike