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Old 11-10-09, 07:25 PM Thread Starter   #1
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Partition Magic & Windows 7


I have found that Partition Magic isn't compatible with Windows 7 yet, so I would like some advise on an alternative. Here is what I am trying to do. I have a 500gb sata hd which I had split into two partitions. One was about 100gb, which was used for programs, the rest was used for storage. I attempted to reduce the size of the program partition so I could copy the partition to an older 80gb drive for backup. Long story short I messed up and left it unbootable. I have decided that this makes for a good excuse to upgrade to windows 7. I have since reloaded all of my programs, and windows 7 onto one of my old 80gb drives. I would now like to copy this drive to the previously mentioned program partition, any advise on a good program to use? Thanks.

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Old 11-11-09, 08:32 AM   #3
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Do you just want to make a complete backup of the existing 80G on to another 80 gig one?
Here are a few options:
For partitioning existing drives, you can use the win 7 inbuilt diskmanager tools to do the job.
If you want to copy an entire partition, you can try the trial version of Acronis disk manager, you can also use Robocopy from a system recovery command prompt using the win 7 DVD.

Not sure if i completely understood your problem, but the above options might be helful.
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Old 11-11-09, 08:51 AM   #4
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I had to resize a "live" partition in W7 as well and I thought I used another program, but I may have installed XP (or maybe Vista) as a dual boot and used PM from XP or Vista.

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Old 11-11-09, 09:23 AM Thread Starter   #5
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At this point I have installed windows 7 and all of my previous programs onto an old 80gb drive. I would like to clone the 80gb drive, I just installed everything on, to the 100gb partition on my 500gb drive. Once that drive is bootable and functional I will store the 80gb drive I am running from at the moment for future installs. So I am looking for a good program to do this with.

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I also found out the hard way that Partition Magic / Drive Image mess up partition tables when used on new chipsets.

Unfortunately there is no alternative to 2009 programs. I don't know if there's any freeware to that, I doubt it.



For drives 500 GB and smaller, you can use Partition Magic but only on an old system, not a new one.
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Old 11-21-09, 10:56 PM   #7
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In fact, mc6796 need not to shrink partitions, if the used space is samller than the target partition, even the entire partition is larger, you can copy directly with file-by-file copy tool. To shrink partition, there are many sw, you can check this article how to shrink or resize partitions.
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