-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Partitoning hard drive

You do not have to format to partition.

I do not know if Seagate's software requires that or not.

I think Acronis also had something to do with Vista's disk management too.
Vista comes with the ability to partition, but not the way I wanted to, 
which is why I bought Acronis.

You might want to go to their website and read about it.
Perhaps the Seagate & Vista versions are scaled down versions of the 
product.
WWW.Acronis.com
http://www.acronis.com/enterprise/products/diskdirectorsuite/

Acronis has a long history of supporting all Microsoft operating systems and 
now continues that tradition with full Microsoft® VistaTM Support for 
Acronis Disk Director Suite 10.0. The Suite is a comprehensive workstation 
partition and disk management suite that combines a number of previous 
Acronis products into one solution:

Acronis Partition Manager allows you to resize, move, copy, split, and merge 
partitions without losing your data
Acronis Boot Manager is a multi-boot software utility that allows you to 
install multiple operating systems on your PC
Acronis Partition Recovery  allows you to recover accidentally lost or 
deleted partitions
Acronis Disk Editor is a disk drive repair tool that allows you to perform 
advanced operations on your hard disk drive, such as restoration of boot 
records and hexadecimal editing

I will leave the commentary to the gurus on this list.  I bought it at their 
recommendation and it does what I need very well.  I especially like the 
ability to partition with data already on the disk.

Rose



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jo Ann" <bookworm54@xxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 6:05 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Partitoning hard drive


> Thanks Rose,
>
> I'm running XP. When I got my other Seagate drive, it had software with
> it that formatted and allowed me to make partitions very easily. There
> are two software programs you can download from Seagate support, Disc
> Wizard, which can make an image and transfer to a new drive, or format a
> new drive and Seatools which will test your Seagate or Maxtor drive.
> Interestingly enough, Disc Wizard is made by Acronis. But it might be
> better to use something like Partition magic to avoid formatting if
> possible in my case.
>
> Jo Ann
>
> Tech Rose - LoveBytes wrote:
>> If you are using XP I think partition Magic will do a good job.
>> I used it for years!   It does not work on Vista.
>>
>> I do not know of any software from Seagate for partitioning disks.
>>
>>   It does not work on Vista.
>>
>> I purchased a PC with Vista and had to buy new software.  I bought 
>> Acronis
>> Disk Director.  It was quite easy to use.   I  found the interface very
>> similar to Partition
>> Magic.  It was also easy to use.  Acronis has no problem handing disks 
>> with
>> data on it,
>> Several knowledgeable people on the list recommended it.  This version 
>> will
>> work on XP or Vista, so you are covered.  I am not sure about 98 & ME. 
>> You
>> would have to go to the web site to check out that info.
>> I bought it from a Users Group as it was cheaper buying it from them than
>> buying it from Acronis.
>> You have the option of just downloading the software & manual or having 
>> them
>> mail you a CD with I think is about $5 more.  I got the CD version.
>>
>> The price was very reasonable.
>> Ahhhhh I just found my email from my order.  Here is the info below.
>> These folks were very nice to deal with and I got my order quickly and it
>> works just great.
>>
>> Just my two cents...
>> Rose
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