i've checked download.com and Paragon Partition Manager 9.0 seems to have everything to recommend it except price.

Anyone know a good free partition program?

~ beau

if you're looking to remove vista then this is what to use

Darik's Boot and Nuke 2.0

then start xp install from cd. you'll have the opportunity to format during install. have sata drivers on floppy if needed for F6 install.

hey thanks, surfer...
i've also just been told about VirtualBox, i think i'll give it a try first
~ beau

Just a suggestion and kind of like PM;

but u might want to try EASEUS

http://www.partition-tool.com/personal.htm

there is some free Hard Disk Backup / Restore and Image / Cloning Utilities here
http://www.thefreecountry.com/utilities/backupandimage.shtml
and some discount Partition software from www.partition-software.com
the easeus partition manager is only free for home users if your need to re-partition your server you mey need the server version that will cost you $134(10% discount)on partition-software.com, hope helpful!

thanks terryleo!
~ beau

Here you can some free here:

http://www.partition-tool.com/resource/fre...on-software.htm

I've chosen Sun's VirtualBox and installed XP with it. It's as easy an installation you'll ever find, runs XP on a Vista machine flawlessly, and it's free.
I recommend it without qualification.
http://www.virtualbox.org/

~ beau