Ranish Partition Manager For Windows Download

This disk partition manager for Windows software can create, copy, and resize primary and extended partitions. It includes a command-line interface and simulation mode that works with large files so you can safely experiment before working on the real hard drive partition tables.

It is a simple application that runs in command line mode and allows you to create multiple partitions on your hard drive. For those who are familiar with the command-line interface, using this software is not inconvenient at all. Moreover, it still works on recent operating systems, such as Windows 7, so compatibility issues are not a problem. The obvious drawback is that you can only use your keyboard to operate this application. Nevertheless, it is easy to use, as you can easily create, copy, and resize primary and extended partitions on your hard drive in no time.

The Windows Partition Manager automatically detects the number of hard disks on your system and their size, as well as the number of cylinders, heads, and sectors. First, you have to select the file system type, by choosing between FAT-16, FAT-32, Extended, BeOS, Linux, or Linux Swap. Thus, this small program can help you install and boot Linux and multiple copies of Windows on your computer. Once you do this, you can set the desired parameters, such as size, starting and ending cylinders. For each partition you create, several options are available. All these operations are made in simulation mode, allowing you to safely experiment before actually partition your hard drive.

It allows you to format the created partitions at a later moment, which is really useful, as it does not alter the integrity of your system in any way.

Ranish Partition Manager Benefits

1. You can select exactly, with sector precision, the location and sizes of each partition you create
2. It has its own boot manager which runs independently from any operating system (in fact, it runs the menu even if you have NO OS at all)
3. The killer edge: It uses an internal trick so you can have up to 30 primary partitions instead of just 4. That’s probably more than anyone will ever need, but at the same time, many will find that the usual limit of 3 bootable partitions (assuming 1 extended one is present) falls short.

Ranish Partition Manager Limitations

It has not been updated for many years. (It is unknown whether it works with a dynamic disk or a large sector drive.) It has some quirks and display problems, most of which occur when using drives that are much larger than when RPM was written:

• Formatting partitions with RPM sometimes seemed to result in problems in Windows XP.
• It can display a maximum of 64 lines.
• On one system, the max cylinder value that could be entered “manually” was 65535.
• The wizard has a quirk where the last character of the cylinder value may be displayed incorrectly when the value is changed. If this is ignored it seems to work fine.
• It can usually be used with partitions that do not follow a single CHS alignment, but this can be awkward for these reasons
• But in CHS mode it doesn’t allow just any head or sector address to be typed in. The “-” and “+” keys can raise or lower these values when they can’t be typed in.
• cannot format some file systems or display their volume labels e.g. NTFS

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