PartitionMagic 8.0

List Price: $69.95

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Customer Reviews:

I wish I had not bought this [Posted on 2005-10-26]
My review would be a word for word copy of the review titled, "One trashed hard disk later" dated: June 30, 2005, but that would be a waste of your time. I'll only say that I wish I had listened to this review instead of the positive ones, because that guy's experience is exactly what I am going through right now.

Destructive trash with no customer support [Posted on 2005-11-23]
I first bought PMagic at around version 3.0. It was wonderful. With each new iteration, it has become increasingly incomprehensible and impossible to fix. Because it breaks if you look at it funny. It does NOT like Linux partitions, and if you try to remove one you get some error message that the table is corrupted, the new drive letter cannot be read, and there is not way to fix it. My version of 8.0, bought over the internet, came with a truncated serial number. Now that the Symantec Brothel owns PowerQuest, you can't get phone number to call nor does Customer "Service" answer mail. The attitude is "Thanks for the money, now eff you." Never again.

Piece of crud to me [Posted on 2006-03-01]
When you pay this sort of money for a program that does one simple thing, you expect it to work. I've spent hours trying to get it to resize my XP NTFS partition. It keeps erroring out. None of the posted fixes help. I finally ended up just doing things the hard way, wiping the drive and building the partitions from scratch. Don't buy this unless you know for sure that it will work with your specific version of windows on your specific machine - down to the the precise model. If you aren't sure of that, you could end up paying quite a bit of money for an ugly coaster.

Partion Magic 8.0 to 8.01 [Posted on 2007-08-03]
I have Pm 8.0 and I had upgraded BEFORE Symantec got hold of it. I had downloaded a 13MB patch from PowerQuest that makes it 8.01. My version works flawlessly. I am not sure if the 8.0 that is being sold here inlcudes the upgrade patch. I have a drive with XP pro as an NTFS OS. No problems when I resize, move, etc. I also have a second drive with FAT32 format. No problem there! I backup by copying the partitions to two USB external drives....no problem.
(I also find it a much better system than the V-Com system that I have retired, and use PM 8.01 for ease and smoothness of operation!)
I wish those that have 8.0 and are having all the problems could get this patch. If that would help, I wonder if Symantes offers it?
At one time Symantec was good. PowerQuest tech support was tops. The people were friendly, knowlegeable and always solved any problem I had.
Amen.

Costly Mistake [Posted on 2007-08-03]
I bought Partitio Magic 8. I used it on a client's computer. It did not work and corrupted the hard drive. The backup that was created and the data merge did not work.

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