PartWork™ for Windows

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“With today’s large hard drive sizes, proper disk partitioning and management are more important than ever. That’s why we created PartWork for Windows. PartWork for Windows, part of the BootIt Collection, allows you to easily manage all your partitions and drives directly from Windows, bringing the popular Partition Work tool from the world-renowned BootIt product line right to your Windows desktop.”

It’s BootIt UEFI without having to reboot to the USB. The more I use it, the better I like it. The UI is very good and easy to understand. It isn’t free, but for me it’s well worth the price.

PartWork is part of the BootIt Collection. There’s a fully functional 30 day trial after which it’s US$39.95

[Moderator edit] added price info

[OP edit]Corrected the advertised price (available via the link in the OP) and added pertinent information regarding the free trial version (also available via the link in the OP). In addition, TeraByte does have sales from time to time, so pricing may vary. For example, I got my BootIt® Collection on sale for $29.95, and was able to download PartWork For Windows for free, using my order number for the BootIt® Collection.

Always create a fresh drive image before making system changes/Windows updates; you may need to start over!

We all have our own reasons for doing the things that we do with our systems; we don't need anyone's approval, and we don't all have to do the same things.

We were all once "Average Users".

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I’m a little curious… This sounds more like a shameless promotion than a useful post. If so, imho it’s inappropriate for this forum.

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It is, after all, in the Tools forum. It’s much like this post: It Started With BootIt NG. I am not in any way affiliated with TeraByte, was introduced to their software by Fred Langa, and have been a user for a couple of decades, now.

Always create a fresh drive image before making system changes/Windows updates; you may need to start over!

We all have our own reasons for doing the things that we do with our systems; we don't need anyone's approval, and we don't all have to do the same things.

We were all once "Average Users".

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This post from @RetiredGeek reminded me that I have yet to setup WindowsRE on the B side of my dual boot. I had been ignoring that issue because I was still running 23H2 on the A side, which is my primary, so I wanted WinRE.wim to remain the 23H2 version (22631 vs 26100) But now that I’ve upgraded the A side to 24H2, that wouldn’t be an issue.

First, I wanted to get rid of the Recovery partition behind the Windows partition, and also the 16MB MSR partition in front of it at the beginning of the drive (yes, I know that MS says this partition should be at the beginning of every drive, but I don’t use them, and have had no issues with their absence). For this (still on the A side), I used PartWork for Windows. The first step was to delete the Recovery partition, then resize the Windows partition into the now blank space. Then I deleted the 16MB MSR partition, and used the Slide command on the Windows partition to put the now blank 16MB behind it. Once the slide was complete, I again expanded the Windows partition into the blank space. Then I exited PartWork.

I booted into the B side. Next, I opened an elevated Command Prompt and ran “reagentc /info” and got “Disabled”, with the location field blank. Next I opened DISKPART, ran “list vol”, selected the Recovery partition and ran “assign letter=z”. I exited DISKPART, ran “reagentc /setreimage /path z:\recovery\windowsre”, then “reagentc /enable”. This time, “reagentc /info” gave me “Enabled” with the location field “\\?\GLOBALROOT\device\harddisk6\partition5\Recovery\WindowsRE”. Then back into DISKPART, ran list vol, selected the Recovery partition and ran remove letter=z.

Always create a fresh drive image before making system changes/Windows updates; you may need to start over!

We all have our own reasons for doing the things that we do with our systems; we don't need anyone's approval, and we don't all have to do the same things.

We were all once "Average Users".

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For those who are interested here’s the low down on the MSR Partition.

@bbearren, Interesting that you even had a MSR partition. Both of my Win 11 systems don’t! Was this a hold over from earlier installations and I’m assuming the disk is MBR vs GUID.

May the Forces of good computing be with you!

RG

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RetiredGeek wrote:

Was this a hold over from earlier installations and I’m assuming the disk is MBR vs GUID.

Actually, neither. It’s GUID. Last July, I did a clean install of 23H2 on the B side. In that linked post I talked about some MOBO issues I had with Intel RST that took me a while to get sorted out. There was no MSR then.

On the A side, I couldn’t get an OTT of 24H2 to work, tried a bunch of stuff, finally decided to do a clean install of 24H2 there. That went well, and after all the reboots it booted into Windows without any of the issues I had had on the B side, so I just left the Intel RST off on the MOBO. Only then my B side wouldn’t boot. Turning on the MOBO Intel RST didn’t make a difference, still no boot on the B side, and now the A side wouldn’t boot, either.

So I disabled the MOBO Intel RST again, and the A side booted fine. I did another clean install on the B side. That’s when I got the MSR partition. First time I’ve seen one in a good while. But it’s gone now, and both sides boot fine. I still haven’t installed much on the B side, but the A side is almost up to full strength.

Always create a fresh drive image before making system changes/Windows updates; you may need to start over!

We all have our own reasons for doing the things that we do with our systems; we don't need anyone's approval, and we don't all have to do the same things.

We were all once "Average Users".

Computer Specs

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