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Apparently, since the last time I had to do a lot of playing with partitions and images, Symantec acquired, neglected, and killed off PartitionMagic. (Yeah, it's been a while.) What, then, are we meant to use instead, that gives us that general behavior of actually doing what it's goddamned supposed to that PartitionMagic so nobly displayed?

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There are quite a few alternatives, both commercial and Open Source. One of the more popular OS programs is GParted.

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I find the gparted live CD invaluable on that front. – Rodger Jul 19 '10 at 7:50
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+1 Easy to use and free, though even Windows in its latest incarnations can finally handle most partition resize jobs just fine. Also, as Partition Magic seriously required a working backup, I always found it more efficient to just wipe and reload a machine instead anyway. – Oskar Duveborn Jul 19 '10 at 14:05
Windows can resize a partition from the end only, it cannot move a partition, or shrink it from the beginning. gparted can! – gbjbaanb Jul 19 '10 at 14:18
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My vote is for Gparted also. I have a USB stick as an Ubuntu 10.04 boot disk. Gparted let's you move and resize NTFS partitions, which is especially handy when managing windows boxes :)

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There is also a gparted Live CD

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There are a number of programs that do this, some of them have been mentioned already. If you're interested in something that also offers a compliment of other tools in addition to several partition managers you might try MultiBoot USB.

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While I myself voted for GParted, there is also EASEUS Partition Master Home Edition (Sure, not for business).

I`v been doing job with that soft, but once some errors occured (nothing was corrupt, but couldn't finish the job), I tried GParted to do the same and it succeeded.

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How about an antivirus app that isn't a total resource hog that also hasn't blocked it?

Avast Home Edition caught 27 infections on my computer that Symantec missed, so I'd say go with that. The Professional Edition includes more protection features that you might need to corporate use, but you'd have to pay for it.

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Seriously, did you read the question? It was about PartitionMagic. Symantec makes a lot more than just antivirus and not all of it is bad. – Martijn Heemels Jul 19 '10 at 13:58
I did read the question... I was suggesting alternatives to Symantec that would still allow John to use PartitionMagic. Besides which, lets be honest, how many people actually use even half of the stuff Symantec has? More to the topic though, there are also alternatives to PartitionMagic that Symantec might not be aware of too... Why would Symantec kill PM anyway? – Logan Young Jul 21 '10 at 11:08
As to your comment Martijn, why bother making me look like an idiot when doing has nothing to do with the issue at hand? Why not simply grace the rest of use with your ineffable wisdom instead? – Logan Young Jul 21 '10 at 11:10
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