 Poor shipping for sure, 2007-05-29
I would not accept the package from the mail system as it took almost three weeks to get the software to my house. I had to unload many photos and needed the soft ware to allow me to re-partition my drive. I finnaly purchased a new 160 GHz drive while I was waiting for the software to arrive. When it did get here I found that it was shipped via USPS book rate. This perhaps saved the mailing costs of a dollar or two but it sure was not in my best intrest.
I will expect to see the credit card credited with $69.91 when the software arrives.
It will be a long time, if ever, that I do this again.
 Works great for me!, 2006-01-11
I used it to change my Fat16 to Fat32 under Windows 98 and it worked great for me. No problems at all. I highly recommend it.
1 of 1 customers found the following review helpful:
Awesome. And, better yet, it even works, 2005-05-07
This product does what is otherwise impossible: shrinks a partition without disturbing the data therein. Also it works very fast! It takes just a minute or two to shrink or expand a partition.
It has always worked for me. If you wonder why you would need this software, don't worry about it. If you need it, believe me, you know it. And when you need it, this is the only program on earth that will do this work.
When you need it and it works it is AWESOME!
Here's an example:
Say you have a teaching lab with 8 computers. You want to use Power Quest Drive Image to create a clone of the hard disk on computer #1 on CD. Then every Friday night after class you can restore the image on all 8 computers and Monday morning all your computers are fresh and ready, regardless of what last week's students did.
Computer #1 has a 100 GB hard drive in a single partition, but only 1GB is actually in use. The rest is free space. Since Drive Image backs up a partition at a time, you will need enough CDs to hold 100GB of compressed data, even though most of it will just be zeros. That might take you many CDs. What you need is a way to shrink the partition size down to just the 1GB in use. Conventional tools will not allow you to do this....they erase all the data in the partition if you shrink it. That kills you! That forces you to back up all the data to another hard drive, delete the partition, recreate the partition to the 1GB size, then format the partition, then reload the data from the spare hard drive, if possible, then create your Drive Image CD, and then go to through the whole process again to expand the partition back. This could take all day.
With Partition Magic, you just insert a diskette and about two minutes later you are done shrinking the partition to the needed size! Snap your image CD and then fire up Partition Magic again and in another two minutes the partition is back where it started! With this technology available doing it the old way makes about as much sense as using a Radio Shack cassette tape player for data storage on your IBM-PC instead of a hard drive.
The former owner of this program, Power Quest, was granted several patents on this technique. Check it out at www.uspto.gov - it's fascinating reading. Paraphrasing their words: obviously this function is not easy since it took 15 years from the introduction of the IBM-PC for someone to invent it.
9 of 9 customers found the following review helpful:
PowerQuest support and WinXP, 2003-11-13
I have owned multiple copies and versions of PowerQuest products for years, including DriveCopy, DataKeeper (orphaned under WinXP), DriveImage, and especially, PartitionMagic. I enthusiastically encouraged friends and co-workers to use the products also, despite their predatory marketing (every function is sold as a separate "product", and my timing always seems to be to buy a new PC and PartitionMagic a few weeks before the next release comes out - too bad, buy again!). I recently had a problem with trying to resize the partitions on my year old PC with PartitionMagic 7 - bought with the PC and used ONCE to originally create the partitions. I was able to take the 20GB space from my data partition but unable to move it to my WindowsXP Pro partition, getting message "ERROR #1513 BAD ATTRIBUTE POSITION IN FILE RECORD". I contacted PQ and their fix is to upgrade to PM 8. I am out of work so I decided to just give up the 20GB of orphaned space, but yesterday I found that DriveImage is not working either (same error message). So now I can not backup my PC and all my existing backups of my OS and data are worthless.With the current price of hard drives so low, my hard drive partitioning days are over! For the price I paid for these products I could have bought a second hard drive and Norton Ghost or some other backup program which hasn't been ruined by corporate bean counters. These WERE great products, but I'm through with using them.
2 of 2 customers found the following review helpful:
 documentation inadequate, 2003-04-06
The title of this review says it all. The documentation does not address the problems that the user who has average understanding of operating systems confronts. That said, once you get it to do what you want it to, Parition Magic is a great tool
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