[Arny Krueger]

"straightnut" wrote in message


I was looking to buy the best partitioning software
available, and assumed it was Partition Magic, but I've
read some very unappetizing reviews of this product. And
after scouring the web to find alternatives, I have yet
to find one that gets any glowing reviews. I'm now ever
so cautiously leaning towards Acronis Disk Director, but
this seems to have its share of adamant panners as well.
I get the impression that partitioning is a difficult
thing for software to do consistently well.

The basic business of partitioning hard drives involves next to nothing in
the way of processing or intelligence. For example, XPs' disk manager does
the basic job pretty well. XP's installation program does some basic
partitioning tasks, too.

It is all the bells and whistles that can come with repartitioning hard
drives that has the great potential for error and even disaster.

Furthermore, complex partitioning, and repartitioning of hard drives seems
to be falling into disfavor.

So, why are you even worrying about this problem in ways that can't be
solved with any copy of XP? ;-)