VCOM Partition Commander 8.0

List Price: $49.99 Discount Price: $9.49

Features:

• Partition Wizard automates partitioning tasks
• Exclusive BackStep Wizard lets you UNDO partitioning
• Includes Copy Commander to transfer all the contents from one drive to another
• Includes System Commander Personal Edition to run multiple operating systems
• Resize, create, move, & copy for Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003, Linux, & DOS partitions

Customer Reviews:

AWESOME PRODUCT !!! [Posted on 2004-09-05]
This by far is the best partition program out there for several reasons. First of all and most important it boots from the CD which gives it all the power the others lack. I work on computers for a living and if a customer has a dead system that won't boot & wants the data recovered it is a snap with this program. I just put in the CD, boot to the bootable CD, create enough space to hold the data on the hard drive as a backup partition & also use the program to copy the dead system over to the new backup partition. I then use the same program all from the boot CD & create and adjust new partitions as I see fit. REMEMBER PEOPLE, THIS IS ALL DONE WITHOUT WINDOWS, ALL DONE WITH ONLY THE BOOTABLE CD!!! Think about it. Anybody who does not like this program needs to stick with their day job and leave the thinking and partitioning to us experts. If you can't see the beauty and strength of a CD that needs no OS to run then you should not be messing around with partitions. I know of another company that uses the same bootable technique to get the job done all from CD with no OS and the program is $2,600. Anyway great program and it is too bad that people give it low marks when they know nothing about computers. I speak with 20 years experience & 5 computer languages.

Run, don't walk [Posted on 2004-11-07]
So your programs are starting to fill up your C drive and you'd like to expand the size of that partition to keep your PC working smoothly? Then turn and run away from this program like your life depended upon it. Installing the program onto my XP Media Center (with Service Pack 2) was easy. It seemed easy to ask it to resize a partition. I only knew that this was the beginning of a nightmare when after a couple minutes, the program ceased trying to resize the partition and asked me if I'd experienced a power outage or anything during the last minute. I hadn't. But metaphorical darkness came soon thereafter, as my E drive completely vanished (not damaged, just no longer seen), my boot system became completely missing (though I could manually boot up well enough to see what damage had been done), my recovery system no longer able to be located, and other vital Windows elements just not able to be found anymore - even though my documents and my programs were still safely there on the drives (at least on the drives I could still see). In short, a simple task resulted in a problem which now will likely cost me hundreds, and may even force me to wipe down my whole computer. If I had done something wrong, I wouldn't be here giving the program 1 star (more like zero stars). But instead I am here to warn you that if it doesn't do what it tries to do, the damage that it causes will cause you pain. I need to stress that I am talking about damage that it causes when it makes a mistake itself, not a mistake that you may make. It evidently isn't advanced enough a program. Stay away from it if you value your computer.

Partition Commander 8.0 is good product [Posted on 2004-12-10]
I have this product and use it very frequently to partition DOS, NTFS and Linux partitions. It works even when the partition table is messed up according the highly touted Partition Magic and it showing no partitions so it is useless. I could make primary and extended partitions with this product without any problems on the same disk. Yes it has shortcommings but not what these ignoramus maximus people with one star talking about (you can not delet a linux partition without label so you have to reformat it and give it a label). I build and repair PC's and my advice to these ignorant people first learn how to use it on PC where you can not make demage or use a professional guy who knows what to do but anyway learn how to make a boot floppy (DOS,NTFS or Linux which ever is your taste).

Very Dangerous Product (more like 0 star rating) [Posted on 2005-05-30]
Exactly, don't even touch this rubbish, I simply tried to resize a partition and it totally stuffed up my Win XP Pro system. I am 3 days in now and trying to recover/rebuild my boot files and it has been next to impossible, I have now resorted to using ERD Commander (fantastic product) to simply recover my files and it will be easier now to reinstall everything. It totally changes something, I think makes major changes to boot and registry files and if your system has a user password, you'll have a hard time trying to recover anything. Microsoft are a bunch of unhelpful idiots with their support or tech notes, as if there are speaking nerd language.

Great Product for Certifed Systems Engineers [Posted on 2007-03-17]
If you're an amateur, forget it--some of the other reviews here are clearly by amateurs who don't know what they're doing. However, if you're a computer professional like me, this is truly a great product! I've used it numerous times to create partitions, move partitions, resize partitions, and even to change cluster size. The product has worked flawlessly every time I've tried it. Highly recommended to all certified systems engineers.

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