Anyone Using Powerquest's Partition Magic? What's the Soop?

[Octoberblue]

Is Partition Magic a worthwhile product? Any feedback would be helpful.
Thanks.

David M.

 

[FOBSIDE]

it depends what youre trying to do. most operating systems allow you to create partitions before you install so its not really necessary to create a partition beforehand. its a decent product but maybe not worth the price.

 

[MGMorden]

If you are an OS freak it's quite worth it. It makes resizing patitions very easy, and it seems to offer more control as to how a partition is created than fdisk or the tool Mandrake/Redhat offer at install (DiskDrake and DiskDruid, respectively I think).

 

[DefRef]

PM is da shiz!!!!

I've used it since v.3 and it's just gotten better and better. I've torched my rig a zillion time, but because my data was stashed on other partitions, it's been safe and I've only had to reinstall the OS and apps.

PM 6 works with WinME and can do all sorts of spiffy stuff like merging partitions, changing from FAT to FAT32 to NTFS and back. It's a bit pricey, but NOTHING touches it for power and safety!

Read about it.

 

[Octoberblue]

Yeah, I should've been more specific. I'm planning on using PM to prep my disk for dual-booting with W2K. I'm hoping to migrate gradually to W2K, making sure each application has the necessary patches and works well with it one at a time, and eventually reformat the Win98 partition and possibly re-install Win98 again cleanly and either use it solely for gaming or for gaming and whatever apps I need that won't work with W2K. Having the flexibility to safely goof around with Linux and BeOs to see what they're like would be interesting too.

 

[vi edit]

I've got a drive image pro license (includes Drive image pro, partion magic pro, and boot magic) that I'll sell ya for $30.

Read the threads here and here

 

[IamDavid]

PM is a great product, just sucks I had to buy an upgrade from 5.0 to 6.0 just to get it to work with Win2K.

 

[teckmaster]

If you already have win 98 installed and you harddrive is big enough for both OS's
along with all the programs you want to install, yoiu can just go ahead and install
windows 2000 and it will automatically make a dual boot. Personally, I would just go and put Windows 2000 on the whole harddrive. I use it at work and at home and haven't seen any programs yet that I couldn't get to work in 2000

 

[Theslowone]

I have never had a problem with 4.0, moved to 5.0 and went back to 4.0.

 

[FOBSIDE]

<< I have never had a problem with 4.0, moved to 5.0 and went back to 4.0. >>



Theslowone

is there any particular reason you went back to 4.0? was it because you had problems with 5.0 or just because...?

 

[Tominator]

I bough 3.x and it worked like a charm! Bought 4.x and it is better. I dual boot W2K and '98 so I've never gone higher. Great program regardless!

 

[zzzz]

I would say you should try it first. I belive there is a trial version available for download..(It was for PM 4 anyway) I am sure you will get hooked and buy the software. On other hand vi-edit offer looks good.