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Ranish Partition Manager revived (Announce)

posted by boeckmann, Aachen, Germany, 11.11.2022, 22:04

> > does anyone remember Ranish Partition Manager, a software from the end
> of
> > the 90s?
>
> I certainly do. I still have a copy of it and use it on occasion when I
> need to mess with partitions. I still think it's one of the best DOS
> partition editors around -- much easier to use and understand than
> something like FDISK. I'm glad to see somebody move the ball forward with
> it -- good luck.
 Thanks :-)

> I experimented with the Ranish boot manager capability way back when, but
> ultimately ended up going a different route (I ending up using BootIt,
> which I still use).
 I was not aware BootIt until now. Surely will have a look at it. But if I understand correctly it is a commercial software? https://www.terabyteunlimited.com/bootit-bare-metal/

> The other thing you might want to think about adding is support for GPT.
 I am afraid that would result in a nearly complete rewrite. For now I will concentrate on making it usable for disks of up to 2TB. I think that would make it a reasonably usable partition / boot manager for "legacy" operating systems.

I doubt if it would make much sense competing with the GPT partition managers already out when the main target operating systems even don't understand that type of partition table. But, time will tell ;-)

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