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Summary: Should be shipped with windows
Review: Partition Magic is one of the more useful tools that I've used. I have multiple partitions on my hard drive at work including Linux and Windows. I needed more windows space one day so loaded up Partition Magic and less than an hour later, all the partitions were moved around and I had the extra space I needed.The tool is easy to use, you don't have to read the manual, and works quickly and painlessless. I haven't seen any problems since using it and I check my drive frequently. My only gripe, and it isn't about Partition Magic, is that there is a need for a tool like this at all. I question the paradigm that requires setting unchanging partitions on a hard drive that are so inflexible. Surely, with current technology, we could do away with the idea of partitions (beyond the need to keep operating systems separate as with Linux/Windows) and give users flexibility with their hard drive space. Still, now that partitions are the way that we are going, you need Partition Magic to get the flexibility you should have anyway. A great tool, and well worth looking into if you need your hard drive partitions moved or changed.
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Summary: Not entirely stable... and reliable?
Review: PM 5 isn't something to run away from, but it's most certainly not a bang for your buck. If partitioning a HD makes you nauseous, you better download the trial version to see how it works. If partitioning is something you start your day with, PM's the first thing you should think about. It partitions on the fly, no doubt to that, but it also uses terms and concepts that may be a little unfamiliar to untrained eye/ear. Not everyone will feel comfortable using it... If you know what you're doing, take it... if not, don't try this at home. :)
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Summary: A very wise investement for the serious PC user
Review: Real worth buying. I had a problem with an old partition. Something must have got corrupted and I could not delete use the partition with any windows OS. I tried fdisk, WIN NT utility and I just could not use the partition. With partition magic, I managed to delete it and to extend the other partition on my disk which I was trying to do. It is also useful if you are running several OS. I installed Linux recently. I was using lilo boot to choose between OSes. It worked fine but a few months later I had to reinstall Windows and of course LILO was gone. Windows does not tolerate very much other OSes. It is really worth to get Partition Magic, despite the $50.
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Summary: Pure magic - it saves time and finger-crossing!
Review: The greatest thing since sliced bread resliced my hard drive to perfection! All my partitions are FAT 32 under Windows 98. Yes, I've used FDISK before to do repartitioning and, believe me, it feels so much better when you don't have to hope and pray that you backed up everything correctly on your old partition. (I still back up old partitions, of course, but now I'm not anywhere near as nervous as I was before.) I was particularly in need of partitioning because I didn't leave enough temp space on my C: drive. It's especially nice to have PartitionMagic around when you've first unpacked a new hard drive and don't know if you've partitioned the disk into useful enough portions. This is truly a must-have!
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Summary: It does what it says, and its magic.
Review: This (to me anyway) is one of those things that you never really think about buying. Then one day, you realize that you have tons of disk space, and documents littered all over the place. That was my experience, anyhow. So, you go and buy PartitionMagic. Period. Don't bother looking anywhere else, nothing can really touch this. It makes partitioning as easy as it can probably be. I had a drive that was a real mess, partitioned with Linux, FAT file system, and all over the place. PartitionMagic cleaned up that drive in minutes. It does take quite a while for some operations to complete (but we're talking gigabytes of data), I set it going and went for lunch. I like the other tools in the package - BootMagic does its job admirably (and, IMHO, is much better than LILO), and MagicMover (moves applications/folders across partitions) appears to do its job adequately - this one really takes a while. There's nothing out there that can really touch this, and if you have either (a) 1 very large drive, (b) two or more drives or (c) multiple OSs, then this is for you.
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