Based on Gene Holmerud's post I looked at DriveWorks (about $69US) since I am not familiar with this product.
But, I have one question regarding the need for defragging before moving or resizing. For a long time, I remember that Partition Magic used to advise defragmenting a partition prior to moving or resizing, but in the newer versions this was no longer a requirement. The reason I am asking this is because during installfests, having a Windows user perform a defrag may be very time consuming. So, the real question is "does a Windows partition require a defrag before using a partitioner, such as: 1. Partition Magic (8+) 2. DiskWorks (Partition Commander) 3. Parted/QTParted
Of course, Linux filesystems rarely require the use of a degragmenter. Here's the schtick: I have only experienced any problems resizing on NTFS so just tried different things until it worked. Those were: (1)defragging using NORTON, not the onboard defrag, which doesn't defrag free space; (2)deleting
On Saturday 21 August 2004 07:10, Jerry Feldman wrote: the page file (a.k.a., swap file); (3)resizing the partition w/o difficulty. -- ..."Yogi" CH Namasté Yoga Studio "If music be the food of love, why can't rabbits sing?"