Does anyone know of a GOOD, FREE Partition Manager?

All I need to do is resize my C:\ Drive, I guess, and that's it.

I've checked on Download.com and it's all shareware that probably won't let you do anything anyway...

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php

Thanks

Thanks, I'll try this as well

Umm, how do I use this? I know .iso files, but I can't use them because I don't have a disc writer.

Could someone please explain...?

I download undisker... some program I found while searching how to extract them. dunno how well it works.. yet

edit: that extracted it but I don't know what to do with it now

Okay, well this LiveCD thing doesn't seem to work. Is there anything else out there, like Partition Magic, but free?

It is virtually impossible to resize your C: drive if you have Windows running, so extracting the files and running it will not do anything. You need to burn it to disk and boot from the disk in order to do anything to your C: drive. I would also highly recommend a heavy defrag and disk backup before you attempt to do this. By a heavy defrag, I mean to run the defrag multiple times until the process takes only seconds to complete. This may take 5 times or more.

It's all in your head, Damokun...

a). I don't have a disc burner.
b). I didn't run the LiveCD. It seems to only be for Linux or something (unknown file types were found in the .gz).

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Originally posted by Ryxpia
Umm, how do I use this? I know .iso files, but I can't use them because I don't have a disc writer.

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Well, it seems that I might have a valid copy of PartitionMagic 8, due to my dad having version 6, thusly having the serial key. But I'm not sure whether or not it will work (Nothing's come up yet, but I haven't made any changes either, so...)

It says as a side note when I'm resizing my C:\ drive:

"This partition crosses the 1024 cylinder boundary and may not be bootable."

Is this something I should watch out for? I'm not really that good with this sort of stuff (partitions etc.)

You shouldn't worry about that message -- it mainly applies to old versions of Windows. 

The BIOS disk I/O functions used by bootloaders are unable to read past cylinder 1024 due to historical limitations.  Current Windows versions solve this problem by placing the essential files this applies to at the beginning of the partition, and they are not likely to be moved by PartitionMagic.

That said, partition resizing is a "hack" and not something intended by design, which is why Microsoft doesn't offer tools to do that.  Although quite safe, there is always some minuscule possibility of a resize going badly.  I'd recommend you back up your really important files as well as make sure you have access to a Windows CD, in case you need to repair your installation.

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Originally posted by Ryxpia
It's all in your head, Damokun...

a). I don't have a disc burner.
b). I didn't run the LiveCD. It seems to only be for Linux or something (unknown file types were found in the .gz).

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Well it seems everything rounded out perfectly, with me about to reboot to make some changes thanks to a ripped version of Partition Magic 8.0 (retrieved with a bit of help from Damokun ).

Thanks anyone and everyone who helped

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Originally posted by Ryxpia
Well it seems everything rounded out perfectly, with me about to reboot to make some changes thanks to a ripped version of Partition Magic 8.0 (retrieved with a bit of help from Damokun ).

Thanks anyone and everyone who helped

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Good luck

Just need to fix the emptyness factor