[LUNI] Acronis

[W. Scott Lockwood III]

On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 13:35 -0500, Eric MacAdie wrote:
> Does anyone have an opinion on the Acronis partitioning software? I 
> think Disk Director is their partitioning product.
> 
> I am thinking about getting another desktop or laptop, and I have read 
> that GParted can mess up some laptop models. So spending $50 on 
> partitioning software would be cheaper than getting another hard drive 
> installed (I don't like to do that myself) and would be the only option 
> for a laptop.
> 
> I did search the list archives, and there were some positive comments on 
> Acronis products from 2003-2004. I was wondering if anybody had more 
> recent experience.
> 
> Eric MacAdie
> 

There are many options that are good and free, GParted among them. The
comment "GParted can mess up some laptop models" makes no sense to me.
Could you be a little less vague? GParted is awesome, but if you don't
trust it for some odd reason, look also at Disk Drake
(http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=114142), Parted Magic LiveCD
(http://partedmagic.com/), or look at this page for many more resources:
http://www.thefreecountry.com/utilities/partitioneditors.shtml
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W. Scott Lockwood III