| | |  | Education & Reference | Home » » » Partition Commander 9 | | | | | | | Description: | | Partition Commander 9 lets you reclaim hard disk space, organize your files, add new operating systems (OSes), and in many cases speed up hard drive access speeds. Best of all, you don't have to be an expert. Partition Commander automates the process - guiding you through step-by-step. Where you have a choice, helpful suggestions are made available - the rest is handled automatically! | | | Product Details: | | | Product Weight:
| 0.65 pounds | | Package Length:
| 9.5 inches | | Package Width:
| 8.0 inches | | Package Height:
| 2.0 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.68 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 18 reviews |
| | | System Requirements: | | | Platform:
| Windows 98 / Windows 2000 / Windows Me / Windows XP | | Media:
| CD-ROM | | Item Quantity:
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17 of 18 found the following review helpful:
 for all the people who can't figure it outFeb 13, 2005
By david duda
version 9 is by far the easiest and fastest of the bunch. if in doubt, use the wizards. it can create, resize, and even format partitions for your swap file as well as a seperate partion to store a backup image using norton ghost utilities. for the large hard drive buffs, store all your data in one partition and keep the system partition clean and defragged often with a small section. it has been a real sweet set of tools !
thanks V-COM
12 of 12 found the following review helpful:
Flawless for meJun 28, 2005
By JGilbert
Last time I used Partition Commander was version 6. Yes, I had an issue where I lost a partition, but I became well aware of the program after that.
Bought Version 9 (even after reading the reviews) because I bought a Dell laptop and for some reason Dell thinks I like a 80 GB drive all in one partition. Thinking I had nothing to lose since the laptop is so new, I bought Partition Commander 9 and installed it. I too chose NOT to use the 2 floppies, and install continued fine for me. I chose NOT to install or use System Commander because I didn't want to have that as a boot loader.
For the single purpose of breaking my one drive into 3, I rebooted the laptop and went to work in the familiar interface that I was used to in Version 6. After making the changes, exited out, rebooted and expected the worst due to the previous reviews here. XP booted with no issues and I now have 3 partitions.
This is one program that one needs to get to know first before doing anything. Just like any other partitioning program, one mistake can cost alot.
For me, I'm quite happy with my choice. It was $20 after rebates and it did just what I wanted it to do.
12 of 12 found the following review helpful:
 It worksDec 08, 2004
By J. Wisniewski
Used this to add unused space on my D: drive and apropriate it to my C: drive because I ran out of space to install Windows XP SP2. Took a few hours, but it worked fine. Gave it 4 stars because I only used that particular feature I and do not know if any others are faulty.
9 of 9 found the following review helpful:
Some trouble with installationAug 19, 2005
By David M. Nelson
I purchased Partition Commander 9 specifically so I could add (and dual-boot) Linspire to my PC which already had Windows XP. The initial installation of the basic program was accomplished flawlessly with the setup wizard. The problem arose when I tried to use the automatic "add another OS" feature. The partitioning would seemingly progress fine for several minutes, but then I would get a message that the program encountered "an error," and it would stop. I uninstalled and reinstalled the program without difficulty, but with the same result (except the error message popped up at different times) for a total of four attempts at "add another OS." Incidentally, I chose to not make the boot disks, as this is a new computer with nothing important on it yet, so I could more easily restore it than rebuild it. So, I then decided to create the new partition manually. I am closer to "novice" than "experienced," and I did have a few false starts. However, it did come with a well-written printed manual, and I did not have too much difficulty figuring out what to do. Everything then worked out fine, and thus far I have had no problems running either operating system.
15 of 17 found the following review helpful:
 Back up anything important before installing this.Mar 01, 2005
By D. Tay
I canceled out of the setup "wizard" half-way through because I only had one floppy diskette on hand. (it wanted to make 2 boot floppies)
It did not work properly, and no partition-editing operations were ever initiated.
On reboot, I saw disk controller errors. scary.
I try to bail...
Uninstalling Partition Commander 9 did NOT revert my system to its original state.
On rebooting, I see the "NTLDR is missing" error message. (I use Win XP Pro)
This was getting very serious. FIXBOOT and FIXMBR commands from WinXP recovery console ran without complaint but the NTLDR missing problem remained. I copied NTLDR and NTDETECT.COM from my winxp CD to the C: too. But the "NTLDR missing" problem remained. My WinXP system was unbootable, even though files on the disks were viewable through WinXP recovery console and through Knoppix.
My system is now sort of OK, though in a mess, after reinstalling Windows over the existing install. (did not reformat the drive)
---- WARNING ----
Because this type of software modifies bootsector and related mysterious things of a hard disk, it has the potential to [...] up your life. So please back up in preparation for the worst. Come to think of it, most of my experience with partition resizers have been unpleasant.
That said, this is just my personal experience with it.
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