Wallace, I'm not familiar with any other partitioning software.  How big is the hard drive?  The older computers I've worked with have less than 100GB capacity, and partition in less than half an hour.  Asante.

Erick

On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 7:38 AM, wallace ngene <wallacengene@gmail.com> wrote:
Tried using live cd for linux and it takes more than an hour to
partition...any tool than could partition faster?

On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 1:57 PM, wallace ngene <wallacengene@gmail.com> wrote:
> thanks for the headsup guys...will give it a short
> Cheers!
>
> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 10:12 PM, Erick NNN <erickarn@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I bought a HP laptop last year, and they give you the option of creating
>> *one copy* of a recovery DVD set.  It creates about 3 DVDs for Windows
>> Vista.
>>
>> As for partitions, I've used the Linux tool GParted to shrink Windows
>> partitions without messing them up.  You'll need to boot from a live CD like
>> Ubuntu.  Then go to;
>> System / Administration / Partition Editor
>>
>> Asante.
>>
>> Erick
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 5:58 AM, wallace ngene <wallacengene@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> <snip, snip>
>>> Any tips,any hp consultant out there? Even if this is a step of cubing
>>> piracy,.....they should have all the discs shipped together with the
>>> laptops.
>>> And any tools available for partitioning windows 7 apart from
>>> shrinking the partitions? I tried using hirens boot disc but it
>>> messesd up my system.Please avoid hirens on windows 7 for
>>> partitoning...or maybe someone has a fix to this as well..
>>> Cheers!
>>>
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