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Free Partition Managers
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? -- Ken Mac OS X 10.11.6 Firefox 53.0.2 (64 bit) Thunderbird 52.0 "My brain is like lightning, a quick flash and it's gone!" |
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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 -- Brian Gregory (in the UK). To email me please remove all the letter vee from my email address. |
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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. :-( -- Ken Mac OS X 10.11.6 Firefox 53.0.2 (64 bit) Thunderbird 52.0 "My brain is like lightning, a quick flash and it's gone!" |
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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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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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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. -- Ken Mac OS X 10.11.6 Firefox 53.0.2 (64 bit) Thunderbird 52.0 "My brain is like lightning, a quick flash and it's gone!" |
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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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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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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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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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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 -- Tim Slattery tim at risingdove dot com |
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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. -- Ken Mac OS X 10.11.6 Firefox 53.0.2 (64 bit) Thunderbird 52.0 "My brain is like lightning, a quick flash and it's gone!" |
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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. -- Ken Mac OS X 10.11.6 Firefox 53.0.2 (64 bit) Thunderbird 52.0 "My brain is like lightning, a quick flash and it's gone!" |
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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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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 -- s|b |
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