But since Symantec bought PartitionMagic and ruined
it, the best choice now is Acronis Disk Director (http://www.acronis.com/),
shown in Figure 5-17.
Figure 5-17. To move partitions, delete EISA Configuration volumes, and more, use
Acronis Disk Director
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Among other things, Disk Director lets you move partitions, resize from the
left (beginning) or right (end), and delete otherwise undeletable partitions,
such as the EISA Configuration volumes discussed earlier in this section.
The DiskPart Command-Line Tool
DiskPart is essentially the command-line equivalent to the Disk Management
tool, and can be useful in certain situations (such as when Windows won??™t
start).
You??™ll need to run DiskPart in administrator mode (see Chapter 8); one way
to do this is to open your Start menu, type diskpart in the Search box, and
then when diskpart.exe appears in the search results, right-click it and select
Run as administrator.
Once it??™s running, type help at any time to see a list of commands. To get
started, here??™s how to extend a volume in DiskPart:
1. At the DISKPART> prompt, type:
list disk
to display all the drives on your computer. Each drive will have a disk
number, starting with 0 (zero).
2. Unless you have only one drive, you??™ll have to tell DiskPart which drive
to use, like this:
select disk n
where n represents the number of the disk to modify.
3. Next, at the DISKPART> prompt, type:
list volume
to display all the volumes on the selected disk.
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