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Re: how can i move all the files to the beginning of my hard drive
> do you know of any programs that don't cost money? just thought i would
check
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I've been very happy with BootIt NG. (I originally
used the Powerquest products, but they were overpriced
and slow... and useless since Symantec "dotnetted"
them.)
You can use BootIt for partitioning on a trial basis.
(30 day trial.) The full cost is $35 and well
worth it. (And frankly, looking for freeware to do
such a low-level job seems a bit nutty to me.
Though there is an OS knock-off of Partition
Magic somewhere. I don't remember the name of
it offhand...and it may not handle NTFS.)
I use BootIt to multi-boot a number of
OSs and also use it to partition disks. It
can resize, delete, create, "slide", etc. The
only thing I'm not certain about is whether
it can resize an NTFS partition. It can create
them, but I don't think I've ever tried to resize.
If resizing of NTFS were not available you'd have
to just delete the partition, recreate a new set
of partitions, then re-install Vista. Be careful,
though, if you have a hidden restore partition
at the front of the disk. Unless you have a
dependable disk-image backup then you don't
want to erase that.
I haven't tried Acronis. It may work fine, but
it's quite a bit more expensive than BootIt, which
includes partitioning, boot manager, disk imaging,
etc. all in one program, while Acronis pulls the
Powerquest trick of splitting up the functions so
that many people will have to buy more than one
program.
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