Norton Ghost 9 0 and Partition Magic 8 0 Bundle

Norton Ghost 9 0 and Partition Magic 8 0 Bundle

5 stars (Does the job well) - The product works great, and I was able to restore my hard drive once. One caution is that you will not be able to restore your hard drive over a wireless network using Ghost. The actual copy was flawless, so thumbs up! The Partition Magic/Boot Magic suite is sort of the industry standard that has been trusted for ages, and it works very well, if you know how to use it. Partitioning your hard drive is not something to be taken lightly (if you mess up you will probably have to spend multiple hours fixing things), so it is important to have a good backup copy, which is what Norton Ghost is for. Be careful when uninstalling Boot Magic. I had to reinstall it once, and I messed up which is why I had to restore with Ghost. Follow all instructions carefully, and the product itself is solid. 1 stars (Symantec Destroyed Powerquest) - I remember Powerquest Partition Magic 2.0, back in the days it was released as an OS/2 *and* MS-DOS utility you could boot and use from a set of two diskettes. I got hands-on experience with Partition Magic up to version 7. Slowly they started dropping features, like HPFS file system support, for no apparent reason. Soon after version 8 was released, the corporation dubbed Symantec -which I like to refer to as "Engulf and Devour"- bought powerquest and while I no longer used it, soon I started hearing the complaints about the new "activation scheme" in version 8.x, which insisted on "phoning home" before allowing you to use it. And now, users are supposed to like this artificial, crippled bundle as other reviewers have said below. PQMagic and Powerquest Drive Image have been always superior to Symantec's Ghost products. The era of small powerquest utilities that would fit on a diskette is gone. It's sad to see such a great company and their products destroyed by Symantec's corporate greed. Welcome to the Symantec partition resizing utility monopoly!. Symantec got rid of their main competitor and destr...
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