I'd vote for your final option. I just did one of these a few days ago - a company had an old server with 9 Gig SCSIs as a mirror. Used ghost to transfer one drive onto a 500 Gig RAID [after ...
The EASEUS Partition Manager Server comes with a price tag of $99.95 (Rs 4,250) and the big different is support for more operating systems. As just a partitioning tool, most users do not need one and ...