Talk:PartitionMagic

Alternatives

It would be good to mention free alternatives to this commercial software. Ianhowlett 15:19, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

They are listed in the See also section. --ChrisRuvolo (t) 18:16, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Vista

BEWARE: Use with Microsoft Windows VISTA beta 2 release (5384), PM 8.05 makes BIOS geometry changes as it perceives discrepacies between CHS, LBA values etc. Vista ULTIMATE was installed on a logical drive in an Extended partition. If user allows the corrections to be made, it works OK, until next use of PM805 after reboot, where it appears to have ruined the partition table. Rescue disks did not help, as it just puts you into a cycle, use PM805=change CHS, LBA values, if not allowed, then a 1MB free space between every partition w/ incorrect CHS /LBA #. Error 117 Init ... .

If XP booted from another HD, when PM 805 executed, displays the entire XP/VISTA HD as BAD!—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.97.80.10 (talk • contribs) .

Version

I believe the latest version is 8.05.1371.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by XP1 (talk • contribs) .

Is listed on the Article page, Latest release with date. RH side, Middle of screen!—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.97.80.10 (talk • contribs) .

Regarding Symantec aquisition

Does anybody know why this product is not updated anymore? I mean, you don't usually buy a company and leave its products to die... Symantec is very stupid. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Baka toroi (talk • contribs) 15:44, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

It still works on most systems, and they still sell this product on their website. --Voidvector (talk) 09:26, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

"Usually" is close to right. It's not uncommon for big companies like Microsoft (and maybe Google) to buy smaller companies and to obsolesce their great product. This might be to eliminate competition, but sometimes it's for the more benign reason of simply finding after some years that they no longer have the manpower to maintain the product. Still, in the case of Symantec, which has no competing product to my knowledge, one might think that the company would get (or could have gotten) more value out of selling Partition Magic to someone else. JKeck (talk) 14:52, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

Compatibility

Article states:

"It can however manage/modify Windows Vista or Windows 7 partitions when started from a compatible operating system such as Windows XP."

Sadly, this is not true. The incompatibility came about because Microsoft deliberately made Vista and Windows 7 store the two partition tables on the disc with a deliberate error. Thus any attempt to use PartitionMagic on such a disc will always give an error message, and PM will not allow any further manipulation. This was because both Vista and Windows 7 included their own partition manipulating capability, though it only offers a small subset of the PM capabilities. PM can be used to create and partition a disc before Vista or Windows 7 is installed. This incompatibility includes running PM from a bootable removal disc. Symantec could have updated PM to overcome this problem but have chosen not to do so. DieSwartzPunkt (talk) 18:55, 30 July 2012 (UTC)

Partition Magic Windows 7--any relation?

What is the relationship of www.partition-magic-windows7.com/res/split-partition-windows-7.html "Partition Magic Windows 7" to Partition Magic? JKeck (talk) 15:00, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

The site's clearly just a name rip-off – possibly under license by Symantec but probably not. The main window screenshot even shows the name "Partition Assistant Professional Edition". I've removed the direct link to remove credit from the site. Zac67 (talk) 15:20, 16 June 2013 (UTC)