Reddy Freddy: I've been using Paragon's extensively for the last five years, through all it's incarnations -- and I've been happy with it. When I installed the previous Easeus Partition Master, I was more than pleasantly surprised.

For me (Windows XP on a nice dual core Toshiba Satellite), it was dramatically faster at nearly everything, even loading. It also seemed to process my requests with far fewer hurdles. For example, Paragon's latest version won't touch my 1tb external hard drive -- it won't format it, partition it, nothing. Easeus did it in a snap.

So, despite Paragon being my long-time favorite, I now use Easeus first -- and Paragon as a backup.

In short, thanks GAOTD! I use partitioning programs regularly, and this I'd give a 9/10 to compared to an 8/10 for Paragon.

~jessie

jessie  –  16 years ago  –  Ritieni questo commento utile? sì | no (+45)

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#6 -- "Do Windows 7 still need the partition tools, since Windows itself has partition utility?"

My answers to that is yes! When I first brought my computer running Win 7 x64 I tried using windows to change the partition size of the system partition where win7 sits. Windows disk manager could do it but with limitations. It could not repartition beyond some hidden and "unmovable" files like the "hiberfil.sys" AND "pagefile" among others. There are ways around this but they are tedious and annoying.

Today's offer and Paragon software does this automatically.

Also I wanted to create non primary partitions using windows disk manager -- IT ONLY CREATES PRIMARY PARTITIONS!, unless you use "diskpart" at the command prompt.I needed to make logical extended partitions with drives in them. My system came with the maximum of 4 primary partitions and windows disk manager would not allow me to make the necessary changes due to that. So either it was to delete some partition, remake it as logical then create the drives or...you get the picture.

Easeus came to the rescure by moving all the hidden files automatically and allowing me to create the kinds of partition structure I wanted. Paragon also does it automatically.

So you can do this in windows but only with the diskpart utility and that is a hastle.

Hope this helps. Besides it costs nothing, and if you need it it'll be there. I missed the last time it was offere and purchased the 5.0.1 version. I have no regrets

-Ukon-

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Ukon  –  16 years ago  –  Ritieni questo commento utile? sì | no (+29)

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FYI, today's giveaway does NOT recognize my Kingston 4 gig flash drive formatted in Fat32. The same flash drive is readily recognized by other, older partition managers. This lack of recognition includes both EASEUS' installed software and the CD.

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#15 -- "Can this be used to change the amount of space allocated to already made partitions without formatting them?"

That's the whole point of these apps. You just shrink the size of drive -C- I think you said or increase the size of drive -D- by dragging the little slider and voila.

Also you must "apply" then changes after making them. The changes are "virtual" until you apply then.

Ukon

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I've been using Easeus partitions tools occasionally for years. About 1 month ago I bought a new HD, so I used version 5.0.1 "Disk Copy Wizard" to migrate from my old drive, to the new one. Worked flawlessly. However, about 2 weeks ago I wanted to do the same thing on a different machine, and I decided to try version 5.5.1. The interface looked the same, however I had some trouble adjusting the new partitions sizes (version 5.0.1 let me resize things as long as they fit). I finally decided to let the Wizard do what it wanted, then I would adjust things later, and let the copy proceed. 2 hours later, it finished, and I rebooted. Couldn't boot off the new drive. Then I noticed some of the partition status flags didn't match ("system" vs "boot"). Tried to fix that, but couldn't. Messed around with everything I could think of, no go. Finally, gave up, installed 5.0.1, and repeated the entire process. Worked fine :)
I hope this version fixed those problems, but I'll be keeping my 5.0.1 until I can confirm that!

Geoff  –  16 years ago  –  Ritieni questo commento utile? sì | no (+17)

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