Hard Drive Partitioning Software

The FDisk partitioning utility is not a very user friendly program. Because of this several software developers have created products that perform the same operations as FDisk but make the process much easier. In this exercise you will look at the adds for two of these programs.

Partition Magic
1. How much is this software?
2. What are some of the things this software can do?
3. List five different file systems that this software supports.
4. Give several reasons why you might want to run multiple OSs.
5. Give two other reasons you might want to use this program.
6. What are the sytem requirements for this software?

GParted
1. Look at the second paragraph. What does GParted allow a user to do?
2. Based on this same paragraph what is the advantage of GParted compared to FDisk?
3. Click on the Live CD link. Unfortunately an explanation of what a Live CD does is not provided here so use this definition from Wikipedia . Explain what is a Live CD is?
4. List 7 uses of a Live CD.
5. Return to the GParted web page and go to the Live CD download page. How large is the gparted-livecd-0.3.4-10.iso file?
6. How much does GParted cost?
7. Download this file to your downloads folder and show it to your instructor for teacher check.