Really savvy computer owners know the value of partitioning their hard drives. One pain about partitioning a hard drive is that if you do it the old fashioned way (DOS FDISK, Windows XP Disk Management ), you'll lose data. On-the-fly re-partitioning is definitely the way to go. While Vista has a built-in partitioning feature that allows for on-the-fly re-partitioning, XP has no such offering. Until recently, I relied on a Linux live CD with GParted to repartition my disks. This worked fine for the most part, but still I had to log off WIndows, insert the Linux CD, reboot, and then unmount the drives once in
Knoppix (the live CD distro I tend to use). Then luckily one day I learned about the
EASEUS Partition Master Home Edition, which allows for ON-THE-FLY repartitioning! Yes, I had struck a freeware gold mine -- I immediately Googled for reviews to make sure that the software was indeed legit. Then I went to the EASEUS site to read what the catch was; the catch is very reasonable: the free version is for home users only. After reading nothing but good reviews, I decided to test the EASEUS software. It worked spectacularly and was extremely easy to use. Granted, I was pretty familar with the interface and features from using GParted; however, I think that anyone competent enough to reparition a hard drive is going to catch on to using EASEUS quickly.
Rather than make one or two of my own screen captures, I'll provide the link to
EASEUS' own page of screen captures depicting a number of different features.
