Norton PartitionMagic 8.0

Pros: Works well to partition a hard drive

Cons: No help to see or partition a network hard drive

Review: I find help useless, it says the program detects network drive. It does NOT and there is nothing in the help topics to lead to its detection or capacity. Web site FAQ offers no help either. Pay for support is what they want after selling the program! ...

Pros: Nice GUI and when it works, it is a beautiful thing to have.

Cons: Too many known issues, error messages, etc. You have to pay for telephone support.

The Bottom Line: It's worth a try; but, proceed with a lot of caution particularly if you are using XP. Definitely, not for the inexperienced user.

Review: I recently installed WIN XP Pro (upgrade) and discovered I was running out of space on the C: drive partition. There was close to 60 GB vacant in other partitions that would be helpful in C: The problem was how to resize the partition without wiping the ...

Pros: I hope I can get my hard drive back to pre - magic

Cons: I hope I can get my hard drive back to pre - magic

Review: I am in the middle of the hours long process of trying to get my hard drive back the way it was before. Someone has to be crazy to try and mess with the partitions when you can buy a 160 HD for 30 bucks when they are one sale. If you want to mess with ...

Pros: None that I encountered.

Cons: Lacks functionality, no docs to speak of, weak support

The Bottom Line: Not useful if you are rebuilding your disk from scratch.

Review: Here's the background: I had a dual-boot laptop that ran Windows XP and Mandrake Linux. I found that I wasn't using the Mandrake partition much after changing jobs, and further the XP side was getting slower and cruftier (this just seems to happen to ...

Pros: Worked great the first few times then crashed my computer

Cons: Can't run computer. Can't get the priority tech support.

The Bottom Line: Wish I had never used it. The price was for PM bundled with Ghost 9.0. Ghost works ok, at least so far.

Review: The software worked very well initially. I re-partitioned my hard drive to have a separate partition for the virtual memory, for boot magic, and for backup. Symantec Ghost requires a separate drive for backup. I also re-partitioned my external USB ...

Pros: IT IS EASY TO CREATE A PARTITION

Cons: GOD HELP YOU TO INSTALL WINDOWS 98 ON A PARTITION PM8 CREATED!!!!!!! GOOGLE IT!!!!!!!

Review: I BOUGHT PARTITIONMAGIC 8 TO INSTALL WINDOWS 98 ON A PARTITION OF MY XP COMPUTER. AFTER HOURS OF WASTED TIME, I AM SCARED OUT OF MIND DUE TO RIDICULOUS COMPLEXITIES AND WORTHLESS DOCUMENTATION! SO, AFTER MORE HOURS OF FRUSTRATION, I STILL CANNOT ...

Pros: Nothing

Cons: Would often corrupt drive when re-partioning.

Review: Horrible program......I would not perform anything beyond basic repartition tasks. Always ended up with corrupted drives. After 2 days I threw the whole package in the trash can. I ended up getting Bootit NG from Terrabyte Unlimited. BootitNG is a ...