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Information about Partition Magic.

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OVERVIEW

After purchasing the PowerQuest company, Norton has continued to ship PartitionMagic. Norton's PartitionMagic program has all the same features as PowerQuest PartitionMagic, and includes additional support for later operating systems like Microsoft Windows XP, supports partitions sizes as large as 300GB, support for more file systems, support for USB1.1, USB2.0, and Firewire external drives.

PowerQuest PartitionMagic is a software utility that allows PC users to have the capability of resizing, creating different drives (partitions) and other modifications to hard disk drives without losing any information on the hard disk drive or having to use fdisk or other partition utilities. PartitionMagic 5.0 has all the capabilities of its predecessors and offers the below additional features.

Boot Management - With Partition magic is BootMagic, a utility that allows the user to easily switch from one operating system to another, in addition to having the capability of password protecting your boot process.

MagicMover - Addition that allows users to effortlessly move programs from one partition or drive to another and be automatically updated with the drive letter moved to.

Large hard disk support - Support for hard disk drives larger than 20GB.

Complete file system - Support for FAT, FAT32, NTFS, HPFS, and Linux ext2.

 

PROGRAM
Game Name: PartitionMagic 8.0
Type: Program
PC REQUIREMENTS
Computer: 100% IBM Compatible
Processor: Windows XP users:
Intel Pentium 233MHz

Windows 2000
Intel Pentium 150MHz

Windows 98/ME/NT WS
Intel Pentium 133 MHz

Memory: Windows XP users:
128MB of RAM

Windows 2000
64MB of RAM

Windows 98/ME/NT WS
32MB of RAM

Drives: 2X CD-ROM
55 MB HDD space
Sound:  
Video: SVGA, 256 Colors
Controls: 100% compatible Microsoft Keyboard  / Mouse.
Operating System: Windows 98 / Windows ME / Windows 2000 / Windows XP
Direct X:  
Other:  
Price: $50.00 - $60.00
PROGRAM
Game Name: PartitionMagic 5.0
Type: Program
PC REQUIREMENTS
Computer: 100% IBM Compatible
Processor: Windows 95/98 users:
Intel 80486 66MHz

Windows ME
Intel Pentium 150MHz

Windows 2000 Pro
Intel Pentium 133 MHz

Memory: 32 MB RAM
65 MB RAM for Windows 2000
Drives: 2X CD-ROM
50 MB HDD space
Sound:  
Video: SVGA, 256 Colors
Controls: 100% compatible Microsoft Keyboard  / Mouse.
Operating System: Windows 95 / Windows 98 / Windows ME / Windows 2000
Direct X:  
Other:  
Price: $50.00 - $60.00

 

Index

Category:
Software

Companies:
PowerQuest
Symantec

Related Pages:
Drive Image
Hard Drive
Fdisk
Norton Ghost

 

Updates

See Norton's PartitionMagic page for additional updates and upgrade information.

 

Resolved

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   TECHNICAL SUPPORT
 

Does PartitionMagic work with any type of drive compression?

PartitionMagic 4.0 cannot may not run from Windows if the hard disk drive is compressed. Additionally, PartitionMagic can work with the host drive which is generally the H drive. If attempting to modify the host drive, you may want to reduce the resize of the compressed drive using the compression software to give PartitionMagic additional space to resize. 

When creating any additional drives, ensure that all drives are created after the host drive.

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