Thread: Partition Work
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Old March 12th 19, 03:30 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Mayayana
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Default Partition Work

"Paul" wrote

| I had the misfortune to buy a copy of Acronis Disk Director,
| which is a Partition Manager. And it had a bug in one
| of its functions which caused data loss. And that's the
| thing about Partition Managers. You can't trust *anyone*
| to make one. Each tool you elect to evaluate, you make *backups*
| before you use it the first time.

That's a good point. It's hard to test dependability.
I've used BootIt for probably more than a decade now,
without ever having a single glitch. And there's very
good help that can be run with the program. I use it
for all partitioning, imaging, booting.

Cons: It's not free. $40, I think. And it doesn't hand-hold.
People have to have a basic idea of what they're doing.
A lot of so-called partition and disk programs these days
are really just glorified backup programs, leading people
to think that System Restore-esque functionality is
disk imaging.

I also used Powerquest back in the 90s. Partition
Magic and Drive Magic were $70 each, on sale $100
for the two. Powerquest milked the market badly
because they had the only dependable, easy-to-use
product. It was also incredibly slow.


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