Partition Logic is a free hard disk partitioning and data management tool. It can create, delete, format, and move partitions and modify their attributes. It can copy entire hard disks from one to another.

With Partition Logic you can make partitions on your hard disk.

Partition Logic is free software, available under the terms of the GNU General Public License. It is based on the Visopsys operating system. It boots from a CD or floppy disk and runs as a standalone system, independent of your regular operating system.

Partition Logic is intended to become a free alternative to such commercial programs as Partition Magic, Drive Image, and Norton Ghost.

Requirements:

· Pentium-class x86 processor
· 32 megabytes RAM memory (16 megabytes in text mode)
· IDE (ATA) hard disks for partitioning.
· IDE (ATAPI) CD-ROM drive, if booting from the CD version.
· Standard PC floppy disk, if booting from the floppy disk version.
· For graphics mode, a VESA 2-compatible graphics card with linear framebuffer support.
· PS/2-style mouse, in graphics mode


Limitations:

· No hardware support for SCSI hard disks
· Does not work with some SATA hard disks
· Supports only DOS/Windows-style MBR partition tables (used on nearly all IBM PC-compatibles). No support for Sun or BSD disk labels, or EFI/GPT tables used on Itanium and Intel Mac platforms.
· Cannot format partitions as NTFS or EXT3. Currently supports FAT (12/16/32), EXT2, and Linux swap.
· Cannot resize FAT or EXT filesystems. Currently supports NTFS (Windows XP) and Linux swap.
· No hardware support for serial mice
· No hardware support for USB keyboards and mice. Currently supports only PS/2 keyboards and mice
· No hardware support for PCMCIA


These limitations are intended to be fixed in future releases.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Implemented right-click context menus.
· Added support for 32-bit .bmp bitmap images and .ico icons
· The partition diagram now responds to keyboard cursor inputs.
· Did general, large scale GUI re-engineering.
· Dialog windows no longer appear in the window shell's window list.
· Disabled USB support for now, since it's broken and can cause some boots to hang
· Booting now works under the Bochs 2.3 emulator (failed in graphics mode under earlier versions)
· The window border component only ever drew when it was called to draw the top border, since it could only draw the entire border. Now the 'draw gradient border' function can draw individual lines of a border and the border component draws the parts individually.
· Did some cleanup of the vloader OS loader code
· Added a function to redraw all the windows, and another one that resets all of the (non-custom) colors of all the windows' components. Setting the colors in the 'Display Settings' program uses this to change all of the window colors immediately.
· Window canvas components now show a visual change when they are focused.
· GUI menu components now have their own graphic buffers, so that regardless of what window they come from they can stay on top, extend outside the window, etc.
· Fixed: The vloader OS loader was being written to the *second* free cluster by the Fedora VFAT driver when not using FAT32. Made a hack to adjust it when installing from Fedora, and generally streamlined the copy-boot program.
· Fixed: A slight bug in the FAT code in that it relied too strictly on the Microsoft definition of FAT-type detection. Now it takes into account a couple of extra hints.
· Fixed: The 'view' program wasn't showing tab characters properly in text files.
· Fixed: The 'vsh' shell would crash if the user entered a line containing only whitespace.
· Fixed: A bug in the copyArea() function of the framebuffer graphic driver in that it wasn't checking to see whether the areas were outside the buffer.