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iPartition makes it easy to create, destroy, resize or format partitions on your hard disks, whether internal, external, fixed or removable.
With iPartition, resizing a partition is as simple as selecting it, grabbing the resize handle and dragging. Not only that, but if you have several operations to perform, iPartition lets you queue them up and run them one after another, so you can have a cup of coffee whilst iPartition works. This feature, coupled with iPartition's ability to automatically rearrange your existing partitions when asked to expand a partition, makes
With iPartition, resizing a partition is as simple as selecting it, grabbing the resize handle and dragging. Not only that, but if you have several operations to perform, iPartition lets you queue them up and run them one after another, so you can have a cup of coffee whilst iPartition works. This feature, coupled with iPartition's ability to automatically rearrange your existing partitions when asked to expand a partition, makes
What's New
Version 3.3.2:
- Fixed an exception that you might get if you tried to use a non built-in GUID with the GUID partition scheme.
- Fixed an exception that you could get with blank volume names.
- Fixed a couple of bugs that could cause crashes when creating a bootable DVD.
- Fixed a bug that would prevent a disk from being remounted at the end of partitioning.
- Fixed a number of bugs and improved the user interface for the clone partition operation.
- The Visible in Windows option is now accessible for Apple's recovery partitions.
- Fixed a problem with resizing heavily fragmented NTFS partitions.
- Fixed updating of mounted devices when moving Windows partitions.
- Added support for relocating extended attributes that use extents (new to Lion).
- Fixed crashes that could occur when iPartition encounters zero sized partitions although you cannot create them with iPartition.
- Other minor UI tweaks.
- iPartition will now preserve MBR boot code in GUID partition schemes after removing all MBR partitions.
- Added limited support for setting the active flag for partitions in GUID or MBR partition schemes.
- Fixed the cause of crashes that could occur when new disks appear or disappear.
- Other bug fixes.
- iDefrag Lite has also been updated to match latest iDefrag.
Version 3.3.2:
- Fixed an exception that you might get if you tried to use a non built-in GUID with the GUID partition scheme.
- Fixed an exception that you could get with blank volume names.
- Fixed a couple of bugs that could cause crashes when creating a bootable DVD.
- Fixed a bug that would prevent a disk from being remounted at the end of partitioning.
- Fixed a more...
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4.11 or later.
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4.11 or later.
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iPartition makes it easy to create, destroy, resize or format partitions on your hard disks, whether internal, external, fixed or removable.
With iPartition, resizing a partition is as simple as selecting it, grabbing the resize handle and dragging. Not only that, but if you have several operations to perform, iPartition lets you queue them up and run them one after another, so you can have a cup of coffee whilst iPartition works. This feature, coupled with iPartition's ability to automatically rearrange your existing partitions when asked to expand a partition, makes iPartition the easiest disk partitioning tool that you'll ever use.
Nor does iPartition's ease-of-use come at the expense of power users; iPartition's Partition Map window, coupled with the Inspector, provides total flexibility, even allowing users to edit flags in the partition table, edit the partition type directly, or move or resize partitions accurately anywhere on the disk.
With iPartition, resizing a partition is as simple as selecting it, grabbing the resize handle and dragging. Not only that, but if you have several operations to perform, iPartition lets you queue them up and run them one after another, so you can have a cup of coffee whilst iPartition works. This feature, coupled with iPartition's ability to automatically rearrange your existing partitions when asked to expand a partition, makes iPartition the easiest disk partitioning tool that you'll ever use.
Nor does iPartition's ease-of-use come at the expense of power users; iPartition's Partition Map window, coupled with the Inspector, provides total flexibility, even allowing users to edit flags in the partition table, edit the partition type directly, or move or resize partitions accurately anywhere on the disk.
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Peterpan23 reviewed on 19 Oct 2011
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iPoopStore reviewed on 18 Oct 2011
iPartition has never let me down yet. I would agree with Chrisiboy that iPartition has always been rock solid and did exactly as advertised.
I lost electrical power and iPartition was able to repair and continue with my partition moving without any lost data. I do know there is not one other tool that can pick up where it left off after a power failure as iPartition and iDefrag have done for myself in the past.
I will agree the price of iDefrag and iPartition are on the high side for casual users that don't require the tools regularly. I use them both often and they are worth every penny to me for the safety features and because compared to similar tools none equal the quality that has gone into these tools.
Thank you Coriolis Systems for bringing the best tools to the Mac.
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Smayer97 reviewed on 13 Oct 2011
1. does not allow chaning partitions on boot drive
2. does not work with SoftRAID
3. Does not work with AppleRAID (per their documentation), which is odd because AppleRAID is listed in the format types. I don't get that!
4. does not recognize RAID volume names, so cannot be sure which partition is which, when partitions are similar size
5. Loads both main drive AND volumes separately in list clicking on volume states it cannot find a Partition Map for the volume, but allows manipulating the volume without having to go to map of original drive map...DANGEROUS!
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I guess I could have stated that...I do like its graphical presentation, and the level of detail in its identification and information of partitions.
And, I am glad you have had a good experience with this product and with their support. Fact is, it still has come serious shortcomings for a serious partitioning tool, especially where it presents partitions in a way that can be altered that should not be permissible, i.e. point 5.
And no, I have not purchased the product for the very reason of its shortcomings. I used the demo and read in detail its documentation. These are factual researched and educated statements, not "I am so sure..." like you say, without verification.
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Chrisyboy reviewed on 22 Aug 2011
This time I was updating from Snow Leopard to Lion. Firstly it turned out my system disk used the older Apple partition scheme rather than GUID, which iPartition allowed me to change without deleting all the partitions (unlike Disk Utility), and then that it didn't have an EFI System Partition, which I created using iPartition.
It took a bit of time, but hey that's how it goes when you're moving sizable partitions around, but I finally managed to upgrade to Lion, and it's thanks to iPartition.
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This does not change the fact that you may be able to change the partition scheme with iPartition without reformatting or repartitioning the drive and, thus, without losing data. Since I don't own the app I cannot speak to its capabilities. But this would be a neat trick if it can be done.
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It is possible to boot an Intel Mac from an APM formatted external drive. I have done so.
The Apple requirement for partition map refers to what is allowed for a fresh install of OS X. So, to install OS X to an Intel Mac, yes the internal drive must be partitioned GPT/GUID.
But it is possible to clone a working OSX Intel drive onto an APM formatted disk and it will boot the Intel Mac. (of course, as long as minimum OS versioning is met for the particular Mac)
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Kzx72 reviewed on 29 Mar 2011
Repartitioned hard drive from 12 to 30GB in about twenty minutes without any issue.
Beautifully designed program (and icon :)
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Albestar reviewed on 28 Dec 2010
As a real world scenario, once I looked for a quick way to resize my bootcamp partition and I used Camptune from Paragon for that (just because their app is specific, bought it some time ago with a bunch of other tools).
My disk was immaculate, no hw or sw erros but Camptune failed at the end.
Fired iPartition and instead, voila', osx shrinked, win resized, 0 erros. It was even quicker!
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It's called "Disk Utility" and it can be found in the Utilities folder on every Mac running OS X.
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Furthermore, it has no support for Windows partitions.
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However, just an observation. This says version 3.2, but the trial version is 3.1.3.
Bradleyam rated on 13 Mar 2011
Head Productions rated on 21 Dec 2010