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The only problem with Partition Commander is that it costs money.

There’s nothing wrong with spending money on a good product, but if you

can find something that does the job for free, why not try it? If you think like

I do, check out the GNOME Partition Editor, better known as GParted. You

can find it at https://gparted.org.

GParted is an incredibly powerful partition editor and does almost

everything the for-pay partition editors do, but it’s free. In fact, you might

already have a copy lying around in the form of an Ubuntu desktop live CD.

If you look closely at Figure 9-62, you’ll notice that it uses strange names for

the partitions, such as sda1 or hda2. These are Linux conventions and are

well documented in GParted’s Help screens. Take a little time and you’ll love

GParted too.

Figure 9-62 GParted in action

The one downside to GParted is that it is a Linux program—because no

Windows version exists, you need Linux to run it. So how do you run Linux

on a Windows system without actually installing Linux on your hard drive?

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