Partition Magic 8 Pro
PartitionMagic was a computer program for hard disk drive partitioning originally made by the PowerQuest corporation, but now owned by Symantec. As of December 8, 2009, the Symantec website stated that they no longer offer Partition Magic. The program runs on Microsoft Windows operating systems
including Windows 2000 and Windows XP, but the application is
incompatible with Windows Vista, 7, or 8 and must use a bootable disk
for partitioning drives instead. The utility can also be run from a bootable CD-ROM and enables creation and modification of partitions. Existing partitions can be resized without loss of data.
Details
PartitionMagic is capable of resizing NTFS, FAT16 or FAT32
partitions without data loss, and can copy and move partitions,
including to other disks. It also has various other features, including
being able to convert between FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS, modify the cluster
size of FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS filesystems, and merge adjacent FAT or
NTFS filesystems (all without data loss, though some NTFS-only metadata
is lost on conversion to FAT). Additionally, it had somewhat limited
support for ext2 and ext3 partitions. PartitionMagic was the first commercial product of its kind containing patented technology.
The first version of PartitionMagic was released with DOS and OS/2
support. Versions 2–3 were offered with DOS, OS/2 and Windows support.
Symantec's PartitionMagic version 8 dropped the OS/2 version. A server
version was also offered under the name Server Magic for Windows and Novell NetWare servers.
The stable version of PartitionMagic 8.05 also includes for a rescue floppy disk an additional DOS
version of PartitionMagic. This DOS version of PartitionMagic (include
DR-DOS or MS-DOS) is matching on two 1.44 MB or one 2.88 MB floppy
disks.
The Windows version of PartitionMagic can also be integrated in BartPE (Bart's Preinstalled Environment) a Windows XP based Live CD created by using the PE Builder. To integrate PartitionMagic into BartPE a PE Builder plug-in for PartitionMagic is available.
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