iPartition 3.3.2 for Mac User Reviews
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"TERRIBLE! Very limited!!!"
Version: iPartition 3.3.1
Pros
Nice Interface...appears easy to use.
Cons
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!Summary
Since I cannot test stability without purchasing, cannot speak to that but based on its limitations, I have no incentive to try.
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"ARECA Mac RAID partition expand"
Version: iPartition 3.3.1
Pros
Does the job, good interface.
Cons
Needs more references to show how long things will take. Changed partition scheme of 750GB drive took 20 hours. Can't help the bad thoughts: I hope the power does not go out, is this thing working?
Summary
The software worked fine. I did a test of changing the partition scheme on a 750GB drive. That took nearly 24 hours to do. I was very nervous about doing that to a 3.5TB single partition drive. I finally decided to not expand but rather add a new partition. That was a great decision as that process was instantaneous.
I searched for expanding my mac raid and read lots of blogs and found little help. Tekram, the manufacturer of ARECA cards was no help either. "Not our problem"
If you have a RAID on a Mac, have expanded your capacity and find that Disk Utility will not expand your partition, iPartition will help you. -
"Does what Disk Utility can't do.... resize without wipe"
Version: iPartition 3.3.0
Pros
Excellent feature set, excellent visual gui display of partitions, easy to use
Cons
the Licensing method they use isn't ideal but is not really a "con".... but really only thing I can even remotely say I don't love about this app
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"Doesn't work"
Version: iPartition 3.1.3
Pros
sounds great
Cons
the file doesn't work
Summary
The file doesn't work. Wish it did.
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"Over priced and not worth the Money"
Version: iPartition 3.0.1
Summary
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
Got it, used it, slow and not worth the very high upgrade price for a program you would use a couple of time at the most per year. -
"Erased All My Data!"
Version: iPartition 3.0.1
Summary
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
I tried out this product some time ago, in 2007, I cannot possibly recommend it for any sane person; and I will tell you why.
Accepting the developer's word that this program could be used to partition, or repartition a hard drive, without having to reinitialize the disk, and without losing any of the current data on the disk, I took the plunge and attempted to do some work on a 120 GB disk which was loaded with data.
I am not stupid. I have been a Mac user since 1990, so while I may not be very Unix savvy, I do consider myself experienced in normal everyday Mac OSX operations. I carefully followed directions. Imagine, to my shock and horror, when I discovered after the program had completed its tasks, that ALL of my data on the disk, every single darn byte, was lost, including the startup system. I had to do a total reinstall of everything. Thankfully, I had a lot of my personal programs and files backed up, but not all of it, so I did lose some important things.
Well, I am sure you know where this program immediately went. Thanks, but no thanks. This is a dangerous and unreliable program, regardless of the developer's claims to the contrary. -
"Great Product"
Version: iPartition 3.0.1
Summary
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
Any problems ! I use iPartition either on Mac either on PC volume (250 and 500 GB). Without any file corrupted. I use it only in safe (slow) mode. -
"Great Product"
Version: iPartition 3.0.1
Summary
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
Any problems ! I use iPartition either on Mac either on PC volume (250 and 500 GB). Without any file corrupted. I use it only in safe (slow) mode. -
"works perfectly"
Version: iPartition 1.5.7
Summary
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
I'll just add my praise for this product :-)
I've been using it since v1.1.2(101)
I've successfully used it to re-partition and re-format several internal as well as external HDs. The latest project was the re-formatting of an iMac v6.1 2.33GHz with a 750GB HD that I split into 26 partitions - two of which were bootable. Before that, I've been messing around with two TiBooks and an iMac 2002 as well as several external HDs
I did run into a bug in v1.1.2 as the re-partitioning I'ld like to do encountered a NP-complete problem in the algorithm they used to re-arrange the partitions, but I was able to work around this problem by doing things step-by-step.
The iDefrag Lite has always been working perfectly for me when I needed it -
"WARNING!"
Version: iPartition 1.5.7
Summary
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
Like their "iDefrag" I previously commented on which f'ed up my entire computer, this "iPartition" thingy forced me to re-install my entire System from ZERO.
I have a 250Gig HD which had (!!!) a working 40 Gig MacOSX Partition, that contained my entire data. I tried iPartition to make one 250Gigs partition out of the 40Gigs MacOSX one and the 210 Gigs of empty space.
This code re-wrote the Partition Table and deleted the entire contents of the 40Gigs partition I was using.
Ah, also tried their so called CD-Maker: none of the few Disks it wrote ever worked, not on Intel, not on G5, not while rebooting, not by choosing the allegedly existent OS from the Startvolume control panel - it wont show anything there...
Have time to waste? Downlod their soft from your favourite P2P network, play with it, but do make backups of your data before you start!!! In the unlikely case this thingy does anything useful for you, feel free to make a donation to your local animal-shleter!
:((
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