[dba-Tech] hd partition utility

I am very happy with Acronis, both - the partition manager (Disk Director) 
and TrueImage.
the Disk Director saved me recently. I had used the XP diskmanager to change 
teh drive letter
of some partitions, which it did without any questions.
But then guess what: it had not only changed the drive letter but also 
erased the partitions.  :-(
Acronis disk director got all the data back for me.  :-)

Lembit

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Erwin Craps - IT Helps" <Erwin.Craps at ithelps.eu>
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Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 11:06 AM
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] hd partition utility


> Acronis is great. There is also VCOM (cheaper), sometimes works great
> but also had horror stories with it.
>
> I also must say that Acronis sometimes refuses to resize a partition
> with a bad block, it's a company policy not to resize when bad blocks. I
> then use VCOM because VCOM does not care about bad blocks. Which is not
> good, but it does the trick.
>
> Same comment on Powerquest/Symantec. I cant use Symantec (v8) on a lot
> of computers because half of de cd drives are not supported. Is probably
> a simple driver thing but in the meanwhile it caused a lot of grieve.
>
> But Acronis is the best and most expensive. But really love them.
>
> I did had some XP boot probs with Acronis (and even worse with vcom). In
> case of Acronis a simple bootrepair was sufficient.
>
>
> Erwin
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Helmut
> Kotsch
> Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 10:49 AM
> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] hd partition utility
>
> Try
> http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/diskdirector/
>
> you can download a trial version. I haven't used it so far but I use
> their
> backup program TRUEIMAGE which is perfect.
>
> Helmut
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> -----Ursprungliche Nachricht-----
> Von: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]Im Auftrag von Peter
> Brawley
> Gesendet: Montag, 11. Februar 2008 10:26
> An: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
> Betreff: [dba-Tech] hd partition utility
>
>
> PowerQuest's Partition Manager was terrific up to version 7. Then
> Symantec bought 'em. There are lots of horror stories out there about
> v8. No thanks. There are horror stories about some of the other leading
> (in terms of downloads at cnet) partition managers too. Does anyone know
> a reliable partition manager that can handle 250G HDs, multiple
> partitions &c?
>
> PB
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