Ranish Partition Manager is a freeware hard disk partition editor, disk cloning utility, and boot manager, that gives a high level of control for creating multi-boot systems.
RPM runs instantly from any of the following: Aside from tools that can be run from the regularly used operating system, RPM is one of the fastest ways to partition a hard disk, or to restore, clone, or move an operating system.
Windows XP Disk Management is known to delete "nonstandard" extended partitions.
[7] There must be at least 63 sectors before the primary partition, to allocate for an EBR, in order to make the conversion.
However, it does a few things RPM cannot: GParted can resize partitions with data on them (NTFS, FAT, etc.)
In Linux, all this information can be displayed by using sfdisk -us -l -x but the format requires more scrutinizing and doesn't indicate errors/warnings with color, as RPM does.
Parted is riskier and less efficient to use, because it saves every change as soon as it is made, and it takes time to update certain things.