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Resize Your Partitions

There probably are many reasons for keeping your Windows installation, but we will not go in to them here.

To give to possibility to keep your Windows installation a system running on an unpartition hard drive, we signed a partnership with the market leading softwarehouse Paragon. With them on the team, Zeta comes with a universal tool for managing partitions! Partition Manager affords everything you may need for managing partitions; it’s suitable for both everyday and rare needs, for either inexperienced user or advanced professional.

At any time you can easily and safely change partitioning of your hard disk, change parameters of partitions. All modern and usually used file systems and operating systems are supported.

With Partition Manager you can reclaim wasted disk space, organize your data, add new operating systems, speed up file system performance. You can even install and manage several operating systems on your computer, no matter which they are.

With Partition Manager you just select what partition modification should be done. All will be done automatically without data loss.

Installing Partition Manager
In Windows, call the Setup.exe from the CD using Start -> Run... . The setup of Partition Manager will then install the Program and the Floppy Build Wizard Program. We recommend you to install the software as single-user for the administrator of the computer, so that you don't risk loosing information stored on the partitions if others start the program.

Creating Bootable Diskette under Windows
Bootable diskette can be created both during the installation of Partition Manager and later with the Diskette Build Wizard utility.

The Windows version of Partition Manager
You can never do a resize, copy, converting or move of the boot partition directly under Windows. On Windows 9x the program will ask for a reboot in DOS, in Windows 2000, NT and XP the task will be done in a boot time service (blue screen mode) and in Windows ME you can do this operations only by booting from the PM Diskette (DOS) version.

As you can see from the screenshot, the main display shows all the detected hard drives and partitions, four main pulldowns and eight buttons on the toolbar. The colored key codes represent the various known types of partitions and status they can have.

The window for hard drives and partitions (left)
Hard drives, i.e. the physical drives are displayed as a symbol with the labels HDD1 to HDDn, followed by the respective size of the hard drive

To the left of the hard drive icon, (pressing of) the zoom box ("+,-") enables one to display the allocation of the hard drive in the partitions ("+"), or only the hard drives ("-"). This works in the standard expand/collapse tree fashion that is standard in Windows Explorer and other Windows applications.

The window for partition details (bottom)
In this window the partitions are displayed as a list, along with detailed specifications about them.

The window for graphical representation (middle)
This window shows a graphical representation of the various partitions in the selected drive.

The explanation window (top)
This last window gives information of the color use in the graphical representation. The colors give you information about the partition types on your hard disk.

A partition is selected by one of the following:

- clicking the partition in the list in the bottom window
- clicking the graphical representation (middle) of the partition above the list
- clicking the partition in the left window
- right-clicking any of these presents all functions that apply to the selected partition, same as you would get from the partition pulldown off the main menu bar.

The Toolbar
As mentioned above, there are eight buttons in the toolbar. They have the following features:

1. Copy hard drive
2. Copy partition
3. Move partition
4. Resize partition
5. Create (new) partition
6. Format partition
7. Delete partition
8. Display (logical drive) properties

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