We’ve got a new version of iPartition coming out soon and here’s a Beta version for you to try. Download it here (9 MB). (You might be prompted for the username and password that you use on our site.)

We’ve added basic cloning support: simply drag a partition to a disk, or to the free space on your current disk and it should queue an operation (or you can use the menu). The actual cloning operation should be pretty much as fast as the disks allow. Note that whilst it will clone Windows partitions happily, you’ll have to do a bit of work if you want to boot from them.

Anybody that reports a bug in the beta version, that we don’t know about, will get a free license for iDefrag¹.

Please send comments about this beta to our support team.

1. We’ll be reasonable about the free licenses, but we reserve the right to rescind the offer at any time, and we also reserve the right to determine what is or is not a bug. Basically, if you help us, we’ll give you the free stuff, but if hundreds all report the same bug, some will end up being disappointed. Our decision is final.

We’re pleased to announce the release of iDefrag version 2.0.5. (Note that 2.0.4 was also available for a time, but contained a bug that affected users of the French localisation; this is fixed in 2.0.5.)

This update contains a number of bug fixes, and can be downloaded either from the My Account page on our site, or from the “Check for Updates…” option within iDefrag 2 itself. You can find the release notes in the iDefrag 2 Atom feed.