| Main |

Heh. Someone tried to crack iPartition 3

Someone tried to crack iPartition 3. Unfortunately for users of this cack-handed crack, they got it wrong and so the “cracked” version is liable to stuff up your disk.

I don’t understand why anyone would be stupid enough to attempt this, actually. I mean, tampering with the code of a copy protected disk utility is a bit like tampering with a nuclear weapon. The person most likely to get hurt is you.

But hey, dumb-ass cheapskate software pirates, by all means destroy your data with pirated copies. Just don’t come crying to us when it happens… we didn’t give them to you and we didn’t tamper with them.

Trackbacks

TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://alastairs-place.net/movabletype/mt-tb.cgi/246.

Comments

Better still, it's not all that expensive to begin with.

Doesn't Apple's partition software work in such a way as to not destroy data on the disk you are partitioning too? So why would anyone need it anyway? Or is my memory tainted because OS X tries to keep all the files on an HDD together near the beginning of a partition.

Disk Utility isn’t nearly as capable as iPartition. The former only lets you resize partitions and won’t move them, so you can easily end up with enough space for a new, large, partition, but unable to make it because the space is in lots of different places.

iPartition also has many other features, including support for resizing FAT and NTFS volumes, support for repartitioning even with Boot Camp and Windows installed (and without breaking your Windows install).

It’s a much better tool for repartitioning, basically.

Post a comment

If you haven't left a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear. Until then, it won't appear on the entry. Thank-you for your patience.

(Your e-mail address will not be displayed or included in any pages served on this site; nor will you get any spam as a result.)

A live preview of your comment will be displayed below. It should refresh automatically when you stop typing, but if not then the “Preview” button above will update it.

Live Comment Preview