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; its 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:
- Copy hard drive
- Copy partition
- Move partition
- Resize partition
- Create (new) partition
- Format partition
- Delete partition
- Display (logical drive) properties
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