Partition Magic Successors: Acronis Disk Director, Paragon Partition Manager
- From: "Michel Merlin" <michel.merlin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 18:58:40 +0200
Juan (as most old faithful PM users) implies (in his « the
actually dead "Partition Magic" ») that PM is dead now that it
has been "Symantecized"
(You may have not noticed so far that when a product gets bought
by Symantec, it immediately gets an increase in price, a shower
of "enhancements" that essentially cripple it, and a total stop
of actual support. Norton AV, Delrina Fax, GoBack, Ghost, and
now Partition Magic and Drive Image, are just a few examples).
PM8.x exists in both Symantecized and original Symantec-free
PowerQuest versions. So the ones who want a true PM can:
- Google "Partition Magic 8"
http://www.google.com/search?q=Partition+Magic+8 and for each
link, email the vendor to make sure it is a PQ version;
- or Google "Partition Magic 7"
http://www.google.com/search?q=Partition+Magic+7, and for each
link, email the vendor to make sure it is an actually available
version.
After doing both you will discover that someone (Symantec?) has
actually dried the market, you can't really get Parition Magic
any more (in a true and legit version that is).
So you are left looking for competing products. The best known
ones AFAIK are currently:
- Acronis Disk Director Suite
http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/diskdirector/
v10.0 $49.99
- Paragon Partition Manager 7.0
http://www.partition-manager.com/ $49.95
- Ranish Partition Manager http://www.ranish.com/part/
(v2.44, June 2002) $0.00
For me I fortunately bought PM3, PM5, and (probably the best
one) PM6.0, so I am ready so far. But when PM6 needs to be
updated (due to changes in OSes, File Systems and apps), I will
have to try and buy something else. And it seems that PM6, while
still not perfect, remains unmatched so far.
The same goes for DI (Drive Image): the version that exists in
both Symantecized and Symantec-free flavors, is DI7; in
addition, Symantec is trying to kill it stronger (since it
already has Ghost); so it's wiser to try and buy DI6, but you
will have hard time to find a product actually available. Anyway
Acronis TU9 (Tue Image 9), $49.99, does reasonably well (while
not perfectly either) all DI did:
http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/
Paris, Thu 4 May 2006 18:58:40 +0200
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Subject: Which is the up-to-dated successor of the actually dead
"Partition Magic"?
Dear friends:
Which is the up-to-dated successor of the actually dead
"Partition Magic"?
A "must have utility", apparently killed by Symantec.
Any suggestion?
Thanks
Juan I. Cahis
Santiago de Chile (South America)
Note: Please forgive me for my bad English, I am trying to
improve it!
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