Gparted live CD.

XFDISK => just perfect for partitioning with included bootmanager.
I use it on all of my Retro-PC's

Use gparted live to shrink partitions. Then use xfdisk to set up multiboot and create new partitions.
They are both good to have and highly recommended.

Partition Magic is what i use, it works pretty good

candle_86 wrote:

Partition Magic is what i use, it works pretty good

Got a link?

Partition Magic is commercial software. It's currently discontinued.

gdjacobs wrote:

Partition Magic is commercial software. It's currently discontinued.

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trk … +magic&_sacat=0

maybe discontinued but it's a great piece of software if you want to purchase it. Don't use it for doing anything with partitions newer than XP though, you will break things.

I've used Partition Magic many years ago when I resized 2 partitions (6.4GB harddrive, man those were the days 🤣) and it took forever! 😁

I never used it to actually partition harddrives for use in newer systems as I didn't want to risk it messing up the partitions and causing loss of data, so after a while I ended up slaving all my to-be-partitioned-and-formatted harddrives in an XP rig (didn't have any more modern OS at the time and I preferred fastformatting). This also allowed me to copy some files to the newly created and formatted empty disk and this way I didn't have to mess with any extra stuff.

Disclaimer: I'm not 100% positive that partitioning in another rig will not cause any problems with a system not being able to boot (it's been years since I last bothered with this "technique") but I never encountered any issues after having succesfully installed an OS on harddrives that got this treatment.

Tetrium wrote:

I've used Partition Magic many years ago when I resized 2 partitions (6.4GB harddrive, man those were the days 🤣) and it took forever! 😁

I never used it to actually partition harddrives for use in newer systems as I didn't want to risk it messing up the partitions and causing loss of data, so after a while I ended up slaving all my to-be-partitioned-and-formatted harddrives in an XP rig (didn't have any more modern OS at the time and I preferred fastformatting). This also allowed me to copy some files to the newly created and formatted empty disk and this way I didn't have to mess with any extra stuff.

Disclaimer: I'm not 100% positive that partitioning in another rig will not cause any problems with a system not being able to boot (it's been years since I last bothered with this "technique") but I never encountered any issues after having succesfully installed an OS on harddrives that got this treatment.

just use parition C:\ /q from dos, and you will quick format your disks with dos

I never use Quick Format. This option should only really be used on pre-existing partitions which you know to be in good health, such as storage partitions, I would never use it on a boot partition outside of testing.

candle_86 wrote:

Tetrium wrote:

I've used Partition Magic many years ago when I resized 2 partitions (6.4GB harddrive, man those were the days 🤣) and it took forever! 😁

I never used it to actually partition harddrives for use in newer systems as I didn't want to risk it messing up the partitions and causing loss of data, so after a while I ended up slaving all my to-be-partitioned-and-formatted harddrives in an XP rig (didn't have any more modern OS at the time and I preferred fastformatting). This also allowed me to copy some files to the newly created and formatted empty disk and this way I didn't have to mess with any extra stuff.

Disclaimer: I'm not 100% positive that partitioning in another rig will not cause any problems with a system not being able to boot (it's been years since I last bothered with this "technique") but I never encountered any issues after having succesfully installed an OS on harddrives that got this treatment.

just use parition C:\ /q from dos, and you will quick format your disks with dos

I should've just read the effing manual 😊

HighTreason wrote:

I never use Quick Format. This option should only really be used on pre-existing partitions which you know to be in good health, such as storage partitions, I would never use it on a boot partition outside of testing.

its fine to use as long as you know the disk's are healthy. I run seatools or data lifeguard depending on the disk before i ever use it to check for any bad sectors ect and fix them. Same way i run memtest on any memory before i put them in use.

For Windows 98, 95, ME, NT 4.0, 2000, DOS, I would Use PowerQuest Partition Magic 8 (aquired by Symantec).
This pack has the advantage of the PQ BOOT, for multiboot.
The Emegency disk are a fully functional Application in DOS Mode. (delete, create, resize, move)

For Windows XP and upers, I Would Use Paragoon HardDisk Manager.

Paragon works great for DOS as well, but your motherboard needs CD-ROM or USB boot support.