Question Looking for drive partitioning software for a small computer side business

[fcar1999ta]

I need advice on drive partitioning software that I can use in my small computer side business. I mainly want to rearrange partitions so that I can backup a drive and restore on a larger drive, keeping the partition structure, but move them so that the main partition is larger. I know that it is easy, but I don't know the legalities with using for a business. I appreciate any help.

 

[TerryLaze]

This can all be done with windows.
You capture all the existing partitions, recreate the partitions on the new disk with whatever changes you want and then apply the images.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/w...ystem-and-recovery-partitions?view=windows-11

 

[Ralston18]

To add another thought:

You can also use Powershell - also Microsoft/Windows.

https://woshub.com/disks-partitions-management-powershell/

And you can easily find other similar links explaining how to apply Powershell to disk management, etc..

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The most important thing is to be absolutely sure that you and your customer have full data backups.

Data backed up at least 2 x to locations away from the host computer and associated drives.

Backups must be verified to be recoverable and readable.

 

[fcar1999ta]

I thought that Windows was not capable of moving partitions. I gave up on using Windows for imaging a long time ago. Guess I will have to play with Windows 11 some more.

 

[USAFRet]

A few thoughts:

Full drive backups MUST be done before messing with partitions.
FAR too easy to make a mistake, and end up with a borked drive and lost data.

When cloning to a new, possibly larger drive, current clone tools can manipulate the target partition sizes in the process. No need to manage that before.

 

[hotaru.hino]

I thought that Windows was not capable of moving partitions. I gave up on using Windows for imaging a long time ago. Guess I will have to play with Windows 11 some more.

The main reason why you can't usually manipulate partitions outside of say expanding them is because they have to be unmounted first. And Windows doesn't really make it obvious how to do that. (see https://www.partitionwizard.com/partitionmanager/mount-drive.html )