giveawayoftheday: Paragon Partition Manager 2009 Special Edition

Free for today only:

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/paragon-partition-manager-2009-special-edition/

You need to go through a free registration process (name, email) to get your key emailed to you.

I haven't actually tried doing anything with this program yet... but I fired it up and it looks fairly powerful. create/move/shrink/resize/format/delete options, along with some partition copy/backup stuff.

I've attached a screenshot.

 

I don't see any reason yet to use commercial software over GParted, which does everything I can imagine flawlessly. Is there a reason? (genuine question)

 

"Special Edition"? That implies it is something apart from their regular edition. Any idea what is different?

Gary

 

hhehehehehehehe. it works.

 

There is no "Special Edition" on their website, just "Personal" and "Professional".

 

If you've found whatever floats your personal boat, great! I could give you Jesus-on-a-Stick and you wouldn't change your mind, so what's the point?

For those who haven't found their own personal partition Jesus yet, a designed-for-Windows partition manager, such as this one, or more to the point, EASEUS' Partition Manager or Acronis Disk Director (the latter two being ones I've used extensively), is a lot easier to work with than something that was designed for, and with, linux, and has only the haziest discussion of using it from within a Windows-based system.

If anyone in the latter camp wants to take the time to learn Gparted, great! Fantastic! More power to 'em! For those of us who barely have enough time to actually attend to partition management, let alone figuring out how a partition manager works, not so great.

 

I agree.

 

Free is always good so I downloaded and registered the product.

 

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/paragon-partition-manager-2009-special-edition/ :

Personally, I don't find gparted particularly user-friendly. Also, it can't be run from within Windows (unless you have virtualization set up, maybe).

But... gparted has some advantages of its own. Running outside of Windows means that it can work with the Windows system partition. (Maybe this one can too, I'm not sure yet...) Also, it's always free, which is nice.

I'm not getting rid of gparted or anything... but I'm glad to have something else too.

 

That's probably the best position - it's always best to have a number of different tools in your toolbox so you can deal with different issues and different time-constraints.

Just FYI, EASEUS does some of its work outside of the Windows-OS by requiring a reboot to complete some actions - when it reboots, it goes into a dos-based environment in which it completes the task, and then turns the boot back over to the WinOS.

 

I use Gparted because it's on the Ubuntu live CD. I can just boot it up and do whatever I want without installing anything. I don't use partition manager everyday, so keeping it installed on the computer wastes my computer resource.

 

Great giveaway. I use gparted, but as said above, always good to have one to work with inside windows that has more functionality than disk management.

Thanks.

 

Gparted works great for me, especially when I have to resize and/or create another partition out of my Windows partition.

 

Then, with all due respect, you have a very antiquated computer - I've left EASEUS partition manager installed on an old Compaq notebook I used it on simply because it was too much of a bother to uninstall it given that it didn't use any resources at all other than a little smidge of hdd space.

EDIT: That would be a pre-merger-with-HP Compaq notebook.