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Customer Reviews of PartitionMagic 7.0

The first thing I found extremely helpful was the fact that I could call a toll-free number for pre-purchase information. ...Partition Magic also comes with Boot Magic and extensive directions on creating a dual-boot system. Power Quest even offered video tutorials to go with all of their products, and I was very happy with the video walk-through, as well as the written instructions, offered specifically for "installing Windows 2000 to an existing ME system". While HP & Microsoft both suggested not dual-booting with ME and Windows 2000, I have been quite successful because the new primary partition I created for W2K actually thinks it's on its own separate computer due to the program causing the ME partition to automatically hide when I use the W2K and vice-versa. If a user creates the boot diskettes as suggested by the wizards when the program is installed, the dual boot system is remarkably easy to set up. Once set up, the first thing to load when you turn on your system is Boot Magic which gives you choices based on your personal preferences within the Boot Magic program. ... All in all this program is great and I am VERY happy with my purchase.

PowerQuest support and WinXP
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.

documentation inadequate
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