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<blockquote data-quote="Kevriano" data-source="post: 1202151" data-attributes="member: 18605"><p>Just coming back to update you with my findings for iPartiton.</p><p>To address my original intention of being able to change format while keeping data intact, the answer is yes and no. This was a somewhat bold claim anyway. What it can do is change it if, for example, you have a Mac OS Extended (Journaled) partition, that you simply want to change to non Journaled for whatever reason. What it can't do is completely change it to NTFS for example. Still quite clever though. It will also change partiton sizes for you, so if you have 2 partitions of equal size on a drive, and you want to alter it to a 75/25 split for example, you can.</p><p>As it stands what I needed to do in the end was reformat the drive I wanted to use to NTFS, which iPartition did very quickly.</p><p>Now, while I was testing I had a play around with a few things to see what else was possible.</p><p>Say for example you have a Mac formatted drive that you want to create another partition on, you can, and in any format you want, provided there is free space of course. So I have a 500GB Mac OS Extended format drive with 90 GB spare, and I could make a new partition on that drive in Fat, NTFS or a myriad of other formats and not destroy any data in the process, which I think is pretty smart to be fair. Also, with this option, you could effectively reformat an entire drive without losing data I guess, though it may be a bit of pain depending how full it is, but you could move things from the old to the new partition, and then eventually replace the old one entirely with the new (this I may well test out soon).</p><p>Overall I am pretty impressed with it, and it offers a lot of other features like creating bootable dvd's or partitions that I haven't tried (no need to, or no time yet). These things aren't mentioned on the web site for the product, but are in the help manual.</p><p></p><p>I hope that this is of use to some of you, and maybe it needs a separate topic, but over to mods to decide that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kevriano, post: 1202151, member: 18605"] Just coming back to update you with my findings for iPartiton. To address my original intention of being able to change format while keeping data intact, the answer is yes and no. This was a somewhat bold claim anyway. What it can do is change it if, for example, you have a Mac OS Extended (Journaled) partition, that you simply want to change to non Journaled for whatever reason. What it can't do is completely change it to NTFS for example. Still quite clever though. It will also change partiton sizes for you, so if you have 2 partitions of equal size on a drive, and you want to alter it to a 75/25 split for example, you can. As it stands what I needed to do in the end was reformat the drive I wanted to use to NTFS, which iPartition did very quickly. Now, while I was testing I had a play around with a few things to see what else was possible. Say for example you have a Mac formatted drive that you want to create another partition on, you can, and in any format you want, provided there is free space of course. So I have a 500GB Mac OS Extended format drive with 90 GB spare, and I could make a new partition on that drive in Fat, NTFS or a myriad of other formats and not destroy any data in the process, which I think is pretty smart to be fair. Also, with this option, you could effectively reformat an entire drive without losing data I guess, though it may be a bit of pain depending how full it is, but you could move things from the old to the new partition, and then eventually replace the old one entirely with the new (this I may well test out soon). Overall I am pretty impressed with it, and it offers a lot of other features like creating bootable dvd's or partitions that I haven't tried (no need to, or no time yet). These things aren't mentioned on the web site for the product, but are in the help manual. I hope that this is of use to some of you, and maybe it needs a separate topic, but over to mods to decide that. [/QUOTE]
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