17 of 17 customers found the following review helpful:
 Simple to use, but watch out, 2000-09-09
I was a little concerned when I attempted to install the product and the documented installation instructions didn't work (referenced an executable that didn't exist). It was simple enough to fix, but made me wonder about the overall quality.And again, while installing Boot Magic, I received an "undocumented" Boot Magic error. Not even an explanation of the error on their site. A second e-mail to their support. One of the two e-mails to Partition Magic support was answered five days later simply re-stating the information in the error message. Never did receive a reply on the general installation question. Actually, the ease-of-use of the product had won me over, until it "hung" on a partition resize operation and left the partition "locked" thus unavailable to the OS scandisk utility (which, incidentally, is what they tell you to run to clear the condition). Only way out, format the disk. I see why they tell you to back everything up before using their product. A few too many problems for my liking. I can't recommend it.
4 of 4 customers found the following review helpful:
 A Bit Pricy But Does A Fantastic Job, 2000-07-09
Partition Magic 5.0 is by far the best partitioning utility on the market. Creating, resizing, or any operation you tell it to do doesn't take much time to complete. I have to admit, it is somewhat expensive, but does a nice job!
 Should be shipped with windows, 2000-07-05
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.
4 of 4 customers found the following review helpful:
NOT FOR NT!, 2000-07-03
I purchased this product to merge partitions on some Win 95 and 98 boxes in my office. For that purpose, this software worked wonderfully. Not one problem came up. If you intend to use this product on those platforms, you should be happy. It did wonderful work on those machines.I got too confident in it and tried to resize two partitions on a Windows NT machine, with the ultimate result being a system corruption from which we were unable to recover. I succeeded in resizing my partitions only after I was forced to REINSTALL THE ENTIRE WINDOWS NT OPERATING SYSTEM. UGH. Maybe I did something I wasn't supposed to do, who knows? But this software should be good enough to recognize when the user is doing something stupid and not let you. At the very least, it should give lots of warnings. No such luck... My advice is stay away from this product for NT unless you are an MCSE or experienced enough.
partittion majic, 2000-06-15
i felt that the parttion majic software was reeally great on my 20gb machine but didnt have much impact on my other machine that has two drives
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