@Adrian: I would but I like to follow a non-censorship policy on dotTech; I hate it when people censor so I only censor when I 100% need to (i.e. such as Ron’s comment #1 where he was linking to articles on another website but I changed his links because dotTech has articles on the same topics). So, let Phil say what he wants – he will be set straight by by more mature dotTechies.

@toast: Thanks for the input. I also seemed to have forgotten to mention the fact that they can’t create USB/flash drive bootables. I will be sure to mention that next time.

@Doug: You will then enjoy my near-future article on a different brainchild from Linux which incorporates GParted.

@Alan: I agree with you; that is most likely the reason why. I tried my best, as per EASEUS’ directions, to make the feature work but sometimes it works sometimes it doesn’t which, in my opinion, is to be expected anyway with a feature like that.

@Everyone: Thank you all very much for the support and trust.

re “The new “extend NTFS partition without reboot” does not always work… it asks for reboot sometimes.”

A possible reason could be that Windows Explorer was looking at that partition.

I found that when I restore an Acronis image to a non-system partition, sometimes it started with a reboot. It has never done so since I ensured that all instances of Windows Explorer are closed before I launch the restore.

Similarly, Safely Remove Hardware is unable to remove an external USB2 drive if Windows Explorer has its beady eye on it.

I suspect that similarly the O.S. will not yield full control to a partition manager if Explorer is looking at that partition.

When Acronis is denied total control it seizes control via a reboot.
I suspect when Easeus is denied it requests a reboot.

I would welcome feedback if any-one would like to test this out.
I will not be downloading Easeus because I am more than happy with Partition Wizard.

Thank you Ashraf for the previous recommendation of Partition Wizard, which incidentally is now upgraded to v 4.2.

Alan

Good review. I especially like the part where you mention the alternatives.

@Ashraf
This is my first post and I have greatly appreciated your site, after being a “guest” over the past few months, so thanks for all of your work!

Another “bad” I found was that when creating the “bootable disc”, their wizard did not actually write any files (or the .iso) to the disc. I had to manually find the image.iso file, and burn it with ImgBurn (program I use to write .iso files to disc).

I found that I still enjoy “Partition Wizard” the best. Why? It has all of the options of paid partition managers. Also, Paragon Partition Manager Home Edition stalled while in boot mode, which was apparently necessary to do the operation I was undertaking. That being said, it completely froze, and my partition was deleted, and my hard-drive was unbootable (at the time). Fussing a week on their forums about how the boot-disc wouldn’t allow me to “undelete” partitions (which it didn’t), someone directed me towards Partition Wizard, and it saved my drive and partition, with all files intact!

I will have to try EASEUS Partition Master Pro Edition some more to be able to know if it is better or not for myself.

For one whose conduct has long been cartoonish, it’s surprising he of all people doesn’t know that lemmings never jump off cliffs but were callously chucked off ‘em by a Walt Disney film production way back when.

Ya got to love ol’ Walt, Chief Sadist to America’s Children.

Can’t love ol’ Phil though, Chief Idiot on GOTD.

@Phil
[Quote
If you can create something better then do so or STFU.
Unquote]
Do you have any “creations” of your own? If so, we’re all very interrested (I guess). Judging (again)from your way of adressing people I fear the worst. The proof of the cake, Phil, the proof of the cake… or, using your language, STFU yourself.

@Kim
I would not take your bet because you can’t ever win and I can never lose on this one. It would not be a fair bet, would it? However, 100% is a lot ànd you may be very close ;-)

@Greta
Nicely spoken! I quit programming some 15 years ago due to complete burnout, but I can still tell salestalk from genuine reviews. Ashraf is doing a very good job indeed.

@Tortuga
I have the feeling that you know more than you wish to tell ;-)

Finally, to have us get back to what this forum should be all about, I have used Partition Manager 4.0 Proffesional (GOTD september last) to install and partition two “old” HD’s and the program did what the developers said it would (and what Ashraf’s review impelled me to install the program). For me it may be an option to install this version even though I have no plans to upgrade from XP-pro to Win7 or Vista in the near future. Sometimes it just comes in handy to have a tool available that you have no immediate use for yourself. So I will install this one and see what it does in the future…

Hail to you all!
Patrick

It is with much sadness that I see phil has input his ugliness here. As others have said he poisons every forum he visits with senseless attacks. His comment is a prime example. Hey phil crawl back under the rock that you slithered out from. No one here is interested in what you have to say.

Phil, have to taken the time to do the work,or apply the time to inform folks,as Ashraf does? I think not so perhaps before you diss someone out who does. why not invest the time into doing something decent. Or perhaps it’s you infact who should STFU.

If he doesn’t find stuff to criticize, he just invents something …
He just likes to stir trouble & be insulting for no reason.

Have a wonderful day everybody :D
Peace