Re: HACK Paragon Partition Manager 15 Home 10.1.25.779 [64bit] Key
Kathryn Garivay
I've been retrofitting some older PCs, and facing the once-common problem ofpartitioning the hard drives. The issue now, however, is to remove the oldpartitions in order to consolidate the space back to one large C: drive -- butwithout destroying the installed Windows and application software.
Remember partitioning? -- Sub-dividing huge hard disks (100 GB!) intomultiple logical volumes. This was once a recommended practice for performanceand organizational reasons to help out poor Windows 98 and its successors. Thesedays, however, we need to consolidate all the available disk space to make roomfor ever-larger applications and their associated data.
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At the time, PowerQuest Partition Magicwas the popular solution formessing with partitions, since it -- unlike Windows -- could resize andreorganize partitions without destroying the data stored on them (see Wikipedia: ).But Partition Magic was bought by Symantec, and what is now NortonPartitionMagic 8 apparently has not been updated since 2004 (www.symantec.com/norton/products/overview.jsp?pcid=sp&pvid=pm80).Even worse, my old version would not run because the website and phone numberfor the required registration were no longer supported. (See also the SymantecFAQ.)
Version 9 adds improved Windows Vista compatibility, boot manager support for runningmultiple operating systems, the Recovery CD, and backup of critical partitioninginformation in the event of a power failure or other catastrophic systemfailure.
Partition Manager has a nice clean interface with task-based options. Youdon't even need to install it -- you can run it directly from the CD (but notfor some advanced operations) -- plus the product CD is bootable, so it canserve as a Recovery CD in the event of a catastrophic failure.
When you choose a task (i.e., Delete Partition, Merge Partitions,Redistribute Free Space), Partition Manager displays a multi-step Wizard to walkthrough the process of confirming the partitions to work on and parameters tochange. But it does not yet perform the action. It first displays a diagram ofhow the disk structure will look after the change, so you can Discard thechange, specify addition operations (i.e., combine several partitions), or Applythe change and start the operation running.
When you actually click to perform the operation, Partition Manager does aquick set-up and validation, and then prompts you to restart the computer sothat it can do the low-level work on the disk at boot time, before Windowsstarts up again. After re-booting, it then runs in text mode to do the heavylifting of adjusting the disk partitions and moving the data on the disk. Yourfiles from consolidated partitions are added in a folder to the adjustedpartition.
Partition Manager provides a wide variety of disk and partitioning tools,accessible through a clean interface. But while performing single operations is straightforward,with clear documentation in the Users Guide and built-in Help for the variousfunctions, you still need to have a higher-level strategic view to understandhow to complete a multi-step task.
While mucking with partitions is fine for people who understand what they aredoing, the documentation is a bit thin for newcomers. Just to get started, itwould be helpful to have an explanation of how the program operates --collecting one or more operations, then starting work, then re-booting tocomplete the task. Similarly, it would be helpful to understand when it is bestto use the option to run from CD, or boot from the Recovery CD, and specificallywhat operations then are available (or not available) in these modes.
For example, one of my tasks was to consolidate four partitions on one disk(C, D, E, F), with three actually subdivided from an extended partition. Sowhat's the best strategy for this? Merge E and F, then D, then C? Or C and D,then E, then F? Delete the partitions and then expand into the free space? Do itall in one operation, or in multiple steps?
As it turns out, you can't merge with an extended partition, so you need todelete it and then expand the C partition into the free space -- Yes, these areeffectively the same operation, but if you try to merge you get an errormessage, with no guidance on how to do what you want.
No matter -- Paragon Partition Manager did the job for me on several disks,stepping though the individual operations with clear instructions that avoided anyhorrible accidents. You can try it out by downloading a trial version from theParagon download site (www.paragon-software.com/downloads/demo.html).
Space-based imagery now provides the GIS professional with the ability to monitor isolated regions and minority groups at risk of environmental exploitation and human rights abuse. Increased economic globalization and climate change pressure will likely increase the frequency and intensity of regional ethnic and resource motivated conflict. Although the use of high resolution satellite imagery for monitoring human rights abuse was proposed even before the conflict in the former Yugoslavian state of Bosnia, only in the last decade has satellite imagery of sufficiently high resolution become available for mainstream human rights applications. Operators such as GeoEye have provided metric earth observation and analysis with satellites such as IKONOS 2, which travels in a roughly 423km altitude polar orbit around the earth.
I was invited by Survival International, a human rights organization focused primarily on indigenous groups around the globe, to look closely at the Grasberg mine complex in Irian Jaya (West Papua). This request followed previous studies I had been involved with in southern Sudan and Zimbabwe (1-2). We applied to the GeoEye Foundation for satellite imagery data covering this region.
The intention of this particular human rights study was to monitor mining corporation activities in these poorly documented regions. Very few maps and data are available for these areas due to their inherent inaccessibility. It should be noted that severe passive opposition (such as placarded marches, public awareness, use of national and international media, etc.) and active opposition (including deliberately damaging equipment, damaging fuel lines, etc.) near the Grasberg mine has resulted in concerted media interest world-wide. Access to this region is significantly restricted. The recent deaths of two U.S. journalists and the West Papuan leader, Kelly Kwalik, close to the mine in late December 2009 only served to heighten existing tensions in the Irian Jaya region. Kwalik had advocated passive resistance to the occupation of tribal homelands by Indonesian military forces.
A key challenge for confirming human rights abuse allegations is a rapid response to the claims and reports, which often lack precise locations on the ground. Effective and timely response by the international media and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) is hindered by not knowing the size of affected areas, or distribution of numbers of people affected. Furthermore, there is often unwillingness by the local governments to permit access to foreign press members who might verify poor living conditions or provide humanitarian relief to potential "enemies of the state." These fears create a xenophobic response to outside influences. This is evidenced by the rapid response of the international community in the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis in 2008, which was sadly short-circuited to a great extent by the reticence of the Burmese authorities to receive aid.
There has been considerable concern about the indigenous Amungme and Komoro tribes, with the expansive growth in the Grasberg mine. This mine is operated by Rio Tinto (a U.S. registered company) as a 40% joint venture partnership with Freeport McMoran Copper and Gold (FCX) run in partnership with the Indonesian Government. PT Freeport Indonesia (PTFI) is a subsidiary of the U.S. company, Freeport McMoran Copper and Gold Inc. Freeport McMoran Copper and Gold Inc. is listed on the New York Stock Exchange, and PTFI is listed on the Jakarta Stock Exchange. This mine is the largest gold mine in the world and the third largest copper mine - a significant factor in the Indonesian economic sector.
A relatively recent (2006) and comprehensive report (3) by WAHLI - the Indonesian Forum for Environment, the environmental watchdog of Indonesia - stated significant concerns over Rio Tinto's continued failure to address human rights and workers' rights, as well as shortcomings in environmental protection. The report listed the following: legal breaches, copper wastage and pollution, engineering inadequacies, vegetation smothering, tailings toxicity, estuary habitat destruction, contamination of estuary food chain and ecological disruption.
WALHI's recommendations were very forthright. It recommended that the government immediately enforce national environmental law by halting Freeport-Rio Tinto operations until breaches were remedied, undertake its own thorough and regular sampling, re-examine tax and royalty arrangements, and establish an independent panel to define various issues including processing and waste management. Local communities protesting against environmental and cultural damage by the mine's expansion and operations have been subject to a range of measures including harassment, torture and even murder. It is on such grounds that the Norwegian Pension Fund finally disinvested from Rio Tinto in 2008. For the Amungme and Komoro tribes, the reduction of the once magnificent Mt. Grasberg, one of the largest peaks of the Sudirman range of West Papua, to an intensely excavated plateau has been quite devastating. Tribes were forcefully relocated, leaving thousands of indigenous people removed from their traditional farming and food gathering territories. Moving Amungme to the more tropical lowlands brought people without natural malarial immunity into contact with malaria carrying mosquitoes, which has led to an increase in mortality rates.
The vast Grasberg copper and gold mine (figure 1), at over 2.6M hectares, was first prospected thoroughly by Dutch geologists in the 1930s. It comprises several delicate ecosystems - alpine meadow, wetland and mangrove forest - which make this environmental site world-renowned for its range and diversity of flora and fauna. The mine is seen at the left with glaciers at the right. The accelerated rate of mine and infrastructure development and consequential environmental destruction are set against a backdrop of rising tension. The strong indigenous desire for West Papuan independence, which began during the Indonesian occupation in the1960s, places Grasberg's Freeport mine as a strong contender for the worst case of environmental and human rights abuse of any mining project currently underway in the world.