Re: Substitues for PartitionMagic and DataKeeper

There was an update to Partition Magic ver 8.01 about 6 months before
Symantec bought out PowerQuest. It may still be available. I don't know.

I also would like to find a substitute for DataKeeper. It worked great.

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Richard Urban
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"Gary Burton" <burton.garyNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I loved these old programs, but now I am looking for replacements:
>
> PartitionMagic 8.0 will not work on my new computer. For some reason,
> it sees a lot of errors when I try to resize a partition and shuts down.
> Apparently Symantec never upgraded it after they bought out PowerQuest
> because it is still called version 8.0. I try to avoid Symantec anyway.
> Acronis has something similar, but I am still looking for alternatives.
>
> Datakeeper was priceless. It backs up whatever you tell it to in real
> time, and it will save as many copies as you want. That, also is giving
> me problems on my new computer. It is good for recovering old copies of
> data that have since been overwritten by newer versions as well as for
> recovering all of the latest data. PowerQuest stopped supporting it years
> ago, and I don't know of a substitute.
>
> I am running XP Home SP2. Can anyone help me with this.
>
> --
> Gary Burton
>


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