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Old October 12th 17, 11:44 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Ken Springer[_2_]
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Does anyone know of a good free partition manager that supports the GUID
filesystem?

My favorite has always been EaseUS Partition Master Free, but GUID is
not listed on their site.

Neither does Partition Wizard.

Suggestions?



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Old October 13th 17, 12:54 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Brian Gregory
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On 12/10/2017 23:44, Ken Springer wrote:
Does anyone know of a good free partition manager that supports the GUID
filesystem?

My favorite has always been EaseUS Partition Master Free, but GUID is
not listed on their site.

Neither does Partition Wizard.

Suggestions?




An ISO of the PartEd Magic boot disk is only $11.
https://partedmagic.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parted_Magic

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Old October 13th 17, 02:11 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Ken Springer[_2_]
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On 10/12/17 5:54 PM, Brian Gregory wrote:
On 12/10/2017 23:44, Ken Springer wrote:
Does anyone know of a good free partition manager that supports the GUID
filesystem?

My favorite has always been EaseUS Partition Master Free, but GUID is
not listed on their site.

Neither does Partition Wizard.

Suggestions?




An ISO of the PartEd Magic boot disk is only $11.
https://partedmagic.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parted_Magic


GUID filesystem is not in the list of supported filesystems. :-(


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Old October 13th 17, 02:47 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Rene Lamontagne
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On 10/12/2017 5:44 PM, Ken Springer wrote:
Does anyone know of a good free partition manager that supports the GUID
filesystem?

My favorite has always been EaseUS Partition Master Free, but GUID is
not listed on their site.

Neither does Partition Wizard.

Suggestions?





How about *Minitool?* I think it does GUID.

Rene

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Old October 13th 17, 02:54 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Rene Lamontagne
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On 10/12/2017 8:47 PM, Rene Lamontagne wrote:
On 10/12/2017 5:44 PM, Ken Springer wrote:
Does anyone know of a good free partition manager that supports the
GUID filesystem?

My favorite has always been EaseUS Partition Master Free, but GUID is
not listed on their site.

Neither does Partition Wizard.

Suggestions?





How about *Minitool?* I think it does GUID.

Rene



Yes, I just checked and Minitool Partition Wizard does GUID partition
table recovery.

Rene

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Old October 13th 17, 03:16 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Ken Springer[_2_]
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On 10/12/17 6:50 PM, Franklin wrote:
On Thu, 12 Oct 2017 16:44:45 -0600, Ken Springer
wrote:

My favorite has always been EaseUS Partition Master Free, but GUID is
not listed on their site.


Neither does Partition Wizard.


Suggestions?



Perhaps looking for GPT would help.

GPT = GUID Partition Table


Thanks for the GPT suggestion, a search using DuckDuckGo and including
GUID in the search brought up a different page with instructions for
resizing GPT partitions. Maybe the home page is out of date.


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Old October 13th 17, 07:21 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Char Jackson
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On Thu, 12 Oct 2017 20:47:07 -0500, Rene Lamontagne
wrote:

On 10/12/2017 5:44 PM, Ken Springer wrote:
Does anyone know of a good free partition manager that supports the GUID
filesystem?

My favorite has always been EaseUS Partition Master Free, but GUID is
not listed on their site.

Neither does Partition Wizard.

Suggestions?





How about *Minitool?* I think it does GUID.


+1

I've been using it for a long time and can confirm that it deals with
GPT just fine.

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Old October 13th 17, 07:35 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Rene Lamontagne wrote:
On 10/12/2017 8:47 PM, Rene Lamontagne wrote:
On 10/12/2017 5:44 PM, Ken Springer wrote:
Does anyone know of a good free partition manager that supports the
GUID filesystem?

My favorite has always been EaseUS Partition Master Free, but GUID is
not listed on their site.

Neither does Partition Wizard.

Suggestions?





How about *Minitool?* I think it does GUID.

Rene



Yes, I just checked and Minitool Partition Wizard does GUID partition
table recovery.

Rene


I think the general idea with the free/paid ones, the GPT
support is actually a paid feature. The Comparison page
may be more honest about this, than the general product
info page with the color pictures of smiling users.

https://www.partitionwizard.com/comp...n-manager.html

There are many potential rough edges on the Free ones, so
don't be surprised if you end up testing all available
free ones, just to do one stinking thing. As an example
of "stingy", one product would change alignment from
1MB to MSDOS, but would not go in the reverse direction.
And you only find this out, when trying to get the numeric
counters to accept certain values (and are refused).

If you do decide a product has the feature set you want,
use the Trial version for 30 days, and verify each feature
actually works. That'll save you some money. I learned this
from practical experience, and I'm not suggesting this as
a lark or shooting from the hip. I *hate* wasting money :-)
If they have a Trial version, use it, and figure out
whether they really know what they're doing. Make backups!
You'll need them. I had Acronis Disk Director corrupt my
C: drive when changing cluster size, and I was glad I had
my backup ready (I knew this was a dangerous test case).

Paul
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Old October 13th 17, 09:12 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Paul[_32_]
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Paul wrote:
Rene Lamontagne wrote:
On 10/12/2017 8:47 PM, Rene Lamontagne wrote:
On 10/12/2017 5:44 PM, Ken Springer wrote:
Does anyone know of a good free partition manager that supports the
GUID filesystem?

My favorite has always been EaseUS Partition Master Free, but GUID
is not listed on their site.

Neither does Partition Wizard.

Suggestions?





How about *Minitool?* I think it does GUID.

Rene



Yes, I just checked and Minitool Partition Wizard does GUID partition
table recovery.

Rene


And this one is interesting, in how it "splits hairs".

http://www.aomeitech.com/pa/comparison.html

It offers to do some sort of MBR versus GPT transforms,
for "data" disks, but not for "system" disks. The leftmost free
offering, is the one a regular user is likely to try out.

Paul
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Old October 13th 17, 11:19 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
VanguardLH[_2_]
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Ken Springer wrote:

Brian Gregory wrote:

Ken Springer wrote:

Does anyone know of a good free partition manager that supports the GUID
filesystem?

My favorite has always been EaseUS Partition Master Free, but GUID is
not listed on their site.

Neither does Partition Wizard.


An ISO of the PartEd Magic boot disk is only $11.
https://partedmagic.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parted_Magic


GUID filesystem is not in the list of supported filesystems. :-(


Yes, GUID is listed. You are using an incomplete name of the partition
table format. It's GUID Partition Table, or GPT. So look for partition
managers that support GPT.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table

GPT is listed as supported in:
- PartedMagic ($9)
- Easeus Partition Master (free, personal-use only)
- AOMEI Partition Assistant (free, any use)
- Minitool Partition Wizard (free, personal-use only)
- Active@ Partition Manager (free)
- GParted = Gnome Partition Editor (Linux bootable image), a GUI
frontend to Gnu Parted (free, any use)
- and, of course, Disk Management in Windows (but limited functions).
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Old October 13th 17, 02:39 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Tim Slattery[_2_]
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Ken Springer wrote:

GUID filesystem is not in the list of supported filesystems. :-(


PEDANTIC QUIBBLE
Unless there's something I don't know about, GUID is not a filesystem,
it's a partition table format. The partitions that it describe can
have any filesystem (or none at all).
/PENDANTIC QUIBBLE

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Old October 14th 17, 10:27 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Ken Springer[_2_]
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On 10/13/17 4:19 AM, VanguardLH wrote:
Ken Springer wrote:

Brian Gregory wrote:

Ken Springer wrote:

Does anyone know of a good free partition manager that supports the GUID
filesystem?

My favorite has always been EaseUS Partition Master Free, but GUID is
not listed on their site.

Neither does Partition Wizard.

An ISO of the PartEd Magic boot disk is only $11.
https://partedmagic.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parted_Magic


GUID filesystem is not in the list of supported filesystems. :-(


Yes, GUID is listed. You are using an incomplete name of the partition
table format. It's GUID Partition Table, or GPT. So look for partition
managers that support GPT.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table

GPT is listed as supported in:
- PartedMagic ($9)
- Easeus Partition Master (free, personal-use only)
- AOMEI Partition Assistant (free, any use)
- Minitool Partition Wizard (free, personal-use only)
- Active@ Partition Manager (free)
- GParted = Gnome Partition Editor (Linux bootable image), a GUI
frontend to Gnu Parted (free, any use)
- and, of course, Disk Management in Windows (but limited functions).


Thanks for the list, saved for the future.

There is an error of omission on the EaseUS site. GPT is missing from
one page.

But there seems to be small change in the EaseUS operation. The last
time I used it, you could queue a list of successive operations. I.E.,
I could tell it to first downsize a partition, then create and format
the new unallocated space into a new partition and format it, then tell
EaseUS to apply the changes. This time, I had to do it one step at a time.


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Old October 14th 17, 10:30 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Ken Springer[_2_]
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On 10/13/17 2:12 AM, Paul wrote:
Paul wrote:
Rene Lamontagne wrote:
On 10/12/2017 8:47 PM, Rene Lamontagne wrote:
On 10/12/2017 5:44 PM, Ken Springer wrote:
Does anyone know of a good free partition manager that supports the
GUID filesystem?

My favorite has always been EaseUS Partition Master Free, but GUID
is not listed on their site.

Neither does Partition Wizard.

Suggestions?





How about *Minitool?* I think it does GUID.

Rene



Yes, I just checked and Minitool Partition Wizard does GUID partition
table recovery.

Rene


And this one is interesting, in how it "splits hairs".

http://www.aomeitech.com/pa/comparison.html

It offers to do some sort of MBR versus GPT transforms,
for "data" disks, but not for "system" disks. The leftmost free
offering, is the one a regular user is likely to try out.


I tend to shy away from Aomei products, as I had problems restoring
system images I'd created.

I did like the simple UI for it, which was on the list of desired traits
when I was looking for a backup program.


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Old October 14th 17, 06:29 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Ken Springer wrote:

On 10/13/17 4:19 AM, VanguardLH wrote:
Ken Springer wrote:

Brian Gregory wrote:

Ken Springer wrote:

Does anyone know of a good free partition manager that supports the GUID
filesystem?

My favorite has always been EaseUS Partition Master Free, but GUID is
not listed on their site.

Neither does Partition Wizard.

An ISO of the PartEd Magic boot disk is only $11.
https://partedmagic.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parted_Magic

GUID filesystem is not in the list of supported filesystems. :-(


Yes, GUID is listed. You are using an incomplete name of the partition
table format. It's GUID Partition Table, or GPT. So look for partition
managers that support GPT.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table

GPT is listed as supported in:
- PartedMagic ($9)
- Easeus Partition Master (free, personal-use only)
- AOMEI Partition Assistant (free, any use)
- Minitool Partition Wizard (free, personal-use only)
- Active@ Partition Manager (free)
- GParted = Gnome Partition Editor (Linux bootable image), a GUI
frontend to Gnu Parted (free, any use)
- and, of course, Disk Management in Windows (but limited functions).


Thanks for the list, saved for the future.

There is an error of omission on the EaseUS site. GPT is missing from
one page.


https://www.easeus.com/partition-manager/epm-free.html
https://www.easeus.com/support/downl...user_guide.pdf

Those mention GPT. Don't know where you looked.

But there seems to be small change in the EaseUS operation. The last
time I used it, you could queue a list of successive operations. I.E.,
I could tell it to first downsize a partition, then create and format
the new unallocated space into a new partition and format it, then tell
EaseUS to apply the changes. This time, I had to do it one step at a time.


Don't have it installed to check but my recollection was that you
selected an operation, the next one, and so on to compile a list of
actions but nothing got committed until you told it to go (click Apply).
The actions (operations) that you selected are pending, not executed
immediately and one at a time. That way you could undo an operation
before you committed after which you might not be able to undo. As I
recall, its Undo removes the last action currently in its to-do list;
i.e., you cannot delete an action somewhere in the middle of the list
probably because they check dependencies of each action.

They are currently at version 12.5. I found images of versions 11.0 and
9.1.1, and those also had the Apply button.

From the currently available online manual, you still pick a series of
operations that remain pending (so you can undo) until you click the
Apply button. The Apply button is the commit action. Until you click
that, nothing happens. You just see a list of pending operations you
chose.
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Old October 14th 17, 09:54 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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On Thu, 12 Oct 2017 16:44:45 -0600, Ken Springer wrote:

Does anyone know of a good free partition manager that supports the GUID
filesystem?

My favorite has always been EaseUS Partition Master Free, but GUID is
not listed on their site.

Neither does Partition Wizard.

Suggestions?


GParted?

https://gparted.sourceforge.io/download.php
http://akabaila.pcug.org.au/gpt/gpt_gparted.html

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