Partition Magic 8.0 | 
| From: Symantec
Category: Software
List Price: £49.99
Buy New: £48.83
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Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 878
Platforms: Windows Me, Windows Xp, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Nt, Linux
Media: CD-ROM
Number Of Items: 1
Operating System: Windows 95
Shipping Weight (lbs): 11
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 7.3 x 2.7
Legal Disclaimer: Layer One UK does not offer any warranty other than the one imposed by the manufacturer. Consequently, the warranty conditions proposed by Layer One UK will be an exact copy of the manufacturers.
MPN: 10276593-IN
EAN: 5397011068828
ASIN: B00006S2X1
Release Date: October 25, 2002
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Availability: Usually dispatched within 1 to 3 weeks
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Product Description
Symantec's Norton PartitionMagic 8.0 lets you easily organize your hard drive by creating, resizing, copying, and merging disk partitions. Separate your operating system, applications, documents, music, photos, games, and backup files to reduce the risk of data loss if your system crashes. You can use Norton PartitionMagic 8.0 to run multiple operating systems safely.Main Features:Divides a single hard drive into two or more partitionsLets you safely run multiple operating systems on the same PCBootMagic ma...
Amazon.co.uk Review
Filled your C: partition, but still have plenty of room on D:? Want to run Linux and Windows on the same PC? You need PartitionMagic 8. PartitionMagic is a lot more than a simple partitioning tool for hard drives these days. Not that changing your partitions without damaging the data in them is a particularly easy procedure, just that it might seem that way. In fact, PartitionMagic 8 can repartition your hard drive, set up multiple operating systems and even perform scheduled backups to protect your data. The core program, which can be run from Windows or in DOS mode directly from a boot floppy, enables you to change the size of existing partitions, create new ones, merge two into one and so on. This is all achieved in a logical and straightforward way, using a new group of Wizards and with a number of safety checks to make sure you do what you intend. Any of the changes you make, happen without any disturbance to the data you already have on your hard drive. The program can handle IDE and SCSI hard drives and in this new version adds external drives linked to USB2 or FireWire ports. You need quite a bit of memory in your PC to run the program--128 MB in Windows XP, for example. BootMagic is bundled with Partition Magic 8 and is a well-featured boot manager which enables you to install several different operating systems on your PC and switch between them at start-up. You can include versions of Windows and other operating systems such as Linux available on the same PC, though the documentation is a little sketchy on exactly which operating systems it supports. --Simon Williams
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 Great time saver! May 19, 2008
E. Jones (Stoke, UK)
There are a lot of partition tools out there and although I was tempted to go the DIY route for free, I am glad I didn't as there was a lot more to it than I thought. Fortunately Partition Magic took me through the steps required and gave me the tools required to do a successful partition expansion.
The only reason I didn't rate it the full five stars is that the Emergency Disk Recovery tool that comes with it insists on backing up to diskettes - but my machine doesn't have a floppy disk drive and wouldn't recognise the USB pen I tried - definately a case for an update there!
Otherwise a solid and easy to use program - well worth the money for the time it saved me and avoiding the grief I could of caused myself!
 Good but not a problem solver May 1, 2008
H. Haugnes (UK)
I have used this on XP for long and it works ok as long as you want to do basic stuff and your Master Boot Record is healthy. But Partition Magic seems totally incompatible with Acronis TrueImage (a backup solution) as well as Linux.
I have been incredibly frustrated with Partition Magic for not being able to work with Acronis partitions and Linux partitions. It simply refuses to start and returns an error (113). Symantec support is semi-polite but cuts you off, quoting "you have a hard drive error".
My advice - be cautious before buying.
 Totally useless September 8, 2007
G. L. Russell (Ipswich, Suffolk UK)
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
I've been battling with this so-called product for 3 nights. I diligently read the manual before starting. All I wanted was two separate partitions, each with their own version of Windows, one for my children's games and one for my freelance work. I have nearly 30 years IT experience and all I can say is that this product sucks! I'm never using it again and would recommend you avoid it at all costs. I'm now rebuilding the PC software from the ground up and looking for another product. Also, their web site is extremely slow - I guess probably due to the number of people looking for help when things go wrong. Why do I have to give this one star? Come on Amazon, allow us to award no stars!
Don't buy this!! Buy Acronis Disk Director instead June 21, 2007
A. Reynolds
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Partition Magic is rubbish. I tried using it to partition a USB stick which I installed drivers for so that XP thinks it's a hard drive. Any little change I made caused Partition Magic to decide to reboot my system - completely retarded. It always complained about problems with the partition table and when it "fixed" them, made a bootable USB become unbootable! It is spastic! Don't buy it! Unless you hate yourself and like to make life a misery.
Unfortunately in order to post this review I had to give it one star, it deserves -5
Acronis Disk Director is far superior.
It makes tons of changes, hides/unhides partitions, formats, converts filesystems, makes partitions active or not active, has a much nicer GUI, is easier to use, doesn't cause loss of data, much, much better product in every way!!!
stay away at all costs December 23, 2006
Sam (York, UK)
7 out of 10 found this review helpful
I got a new computer, high spec and everything. Wanted to do a partitio, and i was already familiar with the existence of partition magic, so I got it and the only magic it did is that it ruined everything. it stopped in the middle of partitioning, windows would not restart, recovery could not work, nothing. So I had to reformat and lost all the data. what is worth is that it does not support hard drives bigger than 90 giga, and I had to know that from an IT expert, and that was not mentioned either on the box, or on the website. It is overpriced as well. I had bought Acronis's partition manager, which is fantastic, for a fraction of the price, and it works a lot better.
Keep your pc safe, and stay away from this software.
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