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Anyone know of a good usable free partition editor for Windows? I just need to add an unused partition to my system partition.

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I did not reopen the question, but added a valid way to manipulate partitions through script. Script! Program-related... (pheeww, that was close ;-) ) – VonC Nov 2 '08 at 15:40
Maybe there is some fine print in the FAQ: "Celebrity programmers are allowed to ask anything..." ;-) – splattne Nov 2 '08 at 15:45
Shouldn't this be migrated to serverfault? – fretje Jun 4 '09 at 8:11
I think it'd be more the bailiwick of Superuser. Partitioning isn't just a server admin thing. – Chris Charabaruk Jul 21 '09 at 5:57
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I'd love to migrate this to both SU and SF, but since it has a more general use than just servers, I'll send it to SU. – Bill the Lizard Aug 11 '09 at 16:35
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Try GParted. It's a free open source ISO image. But you have to boot into it. Get it from http://gparted.sourceforge.net/

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Definitely a good choice, I've always been successful with GParted. Tip: Resizing is fast, but if you want to move large partitions with data on them, be prepared to wait over night for the process to finish. Empty partitions beforehand if you can. – Tomalak Nov 2 '08 at 15:21
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Have you tried running diskmgmt.msc? Its built into windows. It should do the trick for you. Just hit the Win-R button to bring up the 'run' dialog, type in dskmgmt.msc and run.

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oh my! i didnt know win-r does this! wooot :) – kender Nov 2 '08 at 17:14
@kender: make sure you also try Win-D (or Win-M followed by Shift-Win-M) and Win-L. Win-E opens Explorer from almost anywhere. Win-F opens Search anywhere. Win-V turns on speech recognition, apparently. For more: look here: codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000378.html – maxwellb Aug 19 '09 at 17:18
Diskmgmt.msc is nice, but there are some things that Windows volume management can't handle (such as creating partitions in certain edge cases). While it's perfect 90% of the time, sometimes you just have to use another tool. I prefer EASEUS Partition Manager myself, since it lets me shunt partitions around on the physical disk and resize them in cases where volume management balks. – Chris Charabaruk Aug 28 '09 at 0:25
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this is a nice free (for personal) tool EASEUS Partition Manager

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I second EASEUS. – Chris Charabaruk Aug 28 '09 at 0:26
yes, This is a very competent tool. I have used it too and found no problems yet. – Gaurav Sharma Sep 6 '09 at 8:09
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Mhmrrf... since you were obviously asking for a way of manipulating partitions pro-gram-ma-ti-cal-ly (magic word here in SO to keep a question open), I would just want to add to the previous "valid" answers:

diskpart: it allows partition manipulation through scripts, with its own CLI (command Line Interface). Available with Vista.

For instance, extend a partition:

Select Disk 1 
Select Volume 1
Extend Size=10000
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