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After purchasing the PowerQuest company, Norton has continued to ship PartitionMagic. Norton's PartitionMagic program has all the same features as PowerQuest PartitionMagic, and includes additional support for later operating systems like Microsoft Windows XP, supports partitions sizes as large as 300GB, support for more file systems, support for USB1.1, USB2.0, and Firewire external drives.
PowerQuest PartitionMagic is a software utility that allows PC users to have the capability of resizing, creating different drives (partitions) and other modifications to hard disk drives without losing any information on the hard disk drive or having to use fdisk or other partition utilities. PartitionMagic 5.0 has all the capabilities of its predecessors and offers the below additional features.
Boot Management - With Partition magic is BootMagic, an utility that allows the user to easily switch from one operating system to another, in addition to having the capability of password protecting your boot process.
MagicMover - Addition that allows users to effortlessly move programs from one partition or drive to another and be automatically updated with the drive letter moved to.
Large hard disk support - Support for hard disk drives larger than 20GB.
Complete file system - Support for FAT, FAT32, NTFS, HPFS, and Linux ext2.
Does PartitionMagic work with any drive compression?
PartitionMagic 4.0 cannot may not run from Windows if the hard disk drive is compressed. Additionally, PartitionMagic can work with the host drive, which is generally the H drive. If attempting to modify the host drive, you may want to reduce the resize of the compressed drive using the compression software to give PartitionMagic additional space to resize.
When creating any additional drives, ensure that all drives are created after the host drive.