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I agree!!! Please make PM Vista compatible. I am willing to help test it as well!!!
PartitonMagic has been a very useful tool for me and is a good program, it is a disappointment that Symantec has not made it a Vista compatible, but I hope that it will be.
Unfortunately, there are no plans to update Partition Magic for compatibility with Windows Vista. I apologize for this inconvenience.
If Symantec doesn't intend to update and maintain PartitionMagic, why did they buy it from PowerQuest in the first place? It is a unique product. Acronis Disk Director is the only other software that has a similar capability. There is definitely a market for it.
Pat
I guess Symantec has seen that there is a small market with a lot of competitors. So they are paying more attention to their security products
Hi,
thats a normal Software-Way. Sometime every software reach it's end of life (EOL). That's pity but how should they handle this. You need to much staff to support a single software like Partition Magic . You need german supporter, english, developers and so on. It's too expensive. I don't know if Symantec decide to continue developement on Partition Magic to offer new versions or perhaps they decide to use the know-how in their own applications or perhaps they decide to shut down all work with Partition Magic. Symantec was and is a security corporate. This is their main line.
Cheerio
Lars
HorstL wrote:Hi,
thats a normal Software-Way. Sometime every software reach it's end of life (EOL). That's pity but how should they handle this. You need to much staff to support a single software like Partition Magic . You need german supporter, english, developers and so on. It's too expensive. I don't know if Symantec decide to continue developement on Partition Magic to offer new versions or perhaps they decide to use the know-how in their own applications or perhaps they decide to shut down all work with Partition Magic. Symantec was and is a security corporate. This is their main line.
Cheerio
Lars
I decided to try out and had no problems. Version 8. This is a Symantec product now?
yes indeed.
You like it?
Symantec bought PowerQuest some time ago..PartitionMagic has been a part of my toolbox for years. Unfortunately, it does not support Vista.
Pat
Just as an FYI, you might want to investigate the use of Dynamic Disks and Volumes in the future. Although the link is to a Windows XP page they are also supported on Windows Vista. One of the interesting features of these "partitions" is that they can be resized.
Unfortunately, this doesn't serve as a replacement for PartitionMagic on Vista but may help mitigate the need for it in the future.
Dynamic Disks and Volumes are a way to create / delete partitions as is the disk management tool that comes wth Vista. The big difference is that when you utlilize these tools, any data on a existing partition is erased. PartitionMagic allows you to modify a partition without losing your data.
Pat
Thanks for the additional information, Pat. I haven’t used the dynamic disks and volumes myself but I had been led to believe that you could resize them without losing your content. PartionMagic definately sounds like a better solution then.
Reese:
I have been installing and maintaining computers for close to 20 years. There are certain utilities that are "must have" to maintain my sanity and to make the difficult easy. PartitionMagic is one of the winners. The only other product I have found that will do the same job is sold by Acronis. Powerquest made some great products. Drive Copy and Drive Image were also very useful products. Some of their functionality is included in PartitionMagic.
One example.... Some PCs are delivered with a hidden partition for recovery purposes. There have been reports that at least one foreign manufacturer (to remain unnamed for legal reasons) has installed, in addition to the recovery files, a module that will communicate with the manufacturer when that PC is connect to the 'net. They claim it is purely for customer support purposes. True, not true? Don't know. That said, how do you remove that partition and regain the disk space while saving the data already installed on your visible partition? Surely not using any Microsoft function. PartitionMagic...install, run, delete the hidden partition, resize the primary partition and you are done. Basically point and shoot!! You choose all the actions you want PM to complete and press go. Everything else is automatic.
Pat
Pat
Tony_Weiss wrote:
Unfortunately, there are no plans to update Partition Magic for compatibility with Windows Vista. I apologize for this inconvenience.
If it weren't for the fact that Symantec terminated Partition Magic, I'd feel badly about recommending another company's product here. That said, I had good results with Paragon's Partition Manager. It has been updated to Vista-compatible in v9; I have not had need for the product yet, but wouldn't hesitate to use it if the need arises. http://www.paragon-software.com/
I tried Vista's native "shrink volume" feature. My Vista machine had a single 500 GB paritition. The native shrink feature would only shrink it to 250 GB. I read somewhere that this is because there is some system structure that Vista places in the middle of the partition and that "shrink volume" doesn't know how to move.
So I bought Acronis Disk Director and shrunk my system partition to 60 GB. The bad news for Symantec is that, having driven a PartitionMagic customer into a competitor's arms, they have also lost a Ghost customer to the same competitor...
I totally agree. Once I found out the PartitionMagic was not Vista friendly, I too went to the Acronis tools. They work great but I really wish Symantec would update PartitionMagic.
Pat
So what will become of my established drives and content on those drives when I upgrade to vista?