3 of 7 customers found the following review helpful:
 Don't tell anyone that you use this :), 2000-05-30
I used to do this the long way. I would never trust this new fangled Partition Magic stuff. Any way what would me friends say if I told them that all I had to do was press a few buttons and that would take the place of backing up, fdisk, formatting and various other steps just to get a second operating system on my only disk. O.K. I'm coming out. I will no longer have to stuff rags under the door at two in the morning to make new partitions. The real neat thing is how the data mysteriously ends up on the correct partition.
15 of 16 customers found the following review helpful:
Pure magic - it saves time and finger-crossing!, 2000-05-17
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!
20 of 35 customers found the following review helpful:
 Software partitioning at its best., 2000-05-16
I will never prefer something like this over FDISK (call me old fashioned), but this is the best there is as far as partitioning on the fly. As a matter of fact, although FDISK is all I would ever use, Partition Magic is what was used to partition my very first hard drive and that partition table remained intact for over a year before I finally redid it all.I did begin to have cluster problems towards the end of that partitioning campaign, but any partition table may develop problems over that time. Could be due to hardware as well. As far as "on-the-fly" partitioning goes, look no further. This seems perfectly safe for creating new extended partitions without damaging or losing data but I will never condone this practice. I've lost data once (not related to this) and I'll never take another chance again. I'm not going to get into any specifics with this product and make it look like a tech review because most of you just want to know if it works good or not...so in short, yeh it does. Nothing to date worth that 5 stars though!
1 of 2 customers found the following review helpful:
A Wonder, 2000-05-09
In my experience (3 PCs, Win 98) this is the best software I've encountered to date. Intuitive, with excellent wizards, a good manual, and friendly technical help--if you have a bad HD like I did. I would never have attempted multiple partitions without this product. PowerQuest has a real winner here.
5 of 5 customers found the following review helpful:
A very wise investement for the serious PC user, 2000-04-29
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.
|
