Disk Partitioning Software “Free”

EASEUS Partition Manager 3.0 Home Edition – FREE FOR HOME USERS ONLY

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I had been looking for a good Disk Partition software to use that would work with a (RAID O) Drive setup, and well after a little investigating, I came upon this program called  “EASEUS Partition Manager 3.0 Home Edition”. I installed it and gave it a try, well now it is very simular to Partition Magic, but this Home Version is a Free Ware program. They also have a “Professional and Server Edition” Which most of us will not have any need for. It worked perfectly, I have a Set of WD Drives 160 GB each set on a RAID O setup, at first I was a little skepticle, but it never failed me, worked like a charm, I added a 80 GB partition with no problems using Windows XP Pro.

Instructions below:
1. I  had first to shrink my main partition to allow an 80GB unalocated partition space.

2. I then applied the settings and rebooted my PC to make sure it was ok.

3. I then formatted the unalocated 80GB space as NTFS, smooth as a whistle.

4. Rebooted to finish and all was just fine no problems.

After checking the program out some more, I found that you can use the graphical layout to just slide the edge of the box contianing the partion around to resize, of move it from one place to another and then click apply and it will do its job.

DOWNLOAD EASEUS Partition Manager 3.0 Home Edition Here.

I have 3 video tutorial links below to show basic usage.

Video (1) how to make unallocated space to use for an extra Partition.
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#1. Click Here to View the Video Tutorial
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Video (2) how to format and assign a drive letter to the unallocated Space.
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#2. Click Here to View the Video Tutorial
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Video (3) how to mount Windows 7 beta ISO and start the install using Daemon Tools
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#3. Click Here to View the Video Tutorial
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Click here to view how to install Windows 7 Beta using Daemon Tools instead of burning it to a DVD.

Environment Variables

WinRar How to make a Self Extracting EXE

Here is how to make a Self Extracting EXE using WinRar. That will work on Vista and XP “Video Tutorial included“

I needed to make a self extracting exe to extract some moded maps into any users file directory in Vista and XP, the maps would go into the mods folder. Below would be the correct path for Vista and XP. But I wanted one command to be able to use the same self extracting exe file on both XP and Vista, without making 2 separate files, so below is what I did to make this work on both XP and Vista. This will allow any user to extract without having to input their computer profile name.

(Vista) C:\Users\%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Activision\CoDWaW\mods\

(XP)C:\Documents and Settings\%USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application Data\Activision\CoDWaW\mods\

While trying to make a self extracting exe using WinZip I found that trying to use \%USERPROFILE%\ or \%current user%\ in the extract to line using WinZip Self Extractor, that WinZip does not apparently support this, so you may have to use a batch file to accomplish this. I found that quite annoying, so, I tested this using WinRar and it works fine with WinRar.

I guess for making self extracting exe files and using the \%USERPROFILE%\ or \%current user%\ command in the path to the extracting folder. This will not work Using WinZip.

You have to use WinRar, using SFX “convert archives to self extracting exe”

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 View the How too Video Here,
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