Meant to add this link <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PartitionMagic>
Chuck Norcutt
Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> Your memory is a little weak. Paragon's product is "Partition Manager".
> "Partition Magic" was a product of PowerQuest Corp. When I was still
> an OS/2 man I used it all the time and it was an excellent piece of
> software. But it was acquired by Symantec in 2003 and about the same
> time I moved off OS/2 to Win2000. The Wiki page on Partition Magic says
> Symantec hasn't upgraded the product past Win XP and has no intention to
> although it can be forced to run in that environment by using rebuilding
> all Vista disk partitions with XP code. Yecchh!
>
> Paragon's "Partition Manager" may be perfectly good software but I have
> no knowledge of it as I did with the OS/2 version of Partition Magic.
>
> That comment about Vista partitions being different may well mean that
> Acronis 9 won't work to clone a Vista drive. I'm sure the sector by
> sector copy would work but it may get into trouble before that if it
> doesn't recognize the disk partitions to begin with.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> Piers Hemy wrote:
>> You might like to take a look at Paragon Drive Backup, Partition Magic
>> and
>> HD Manager www.paragon-software.com
>> I haven't used any of them, but have used other Paragon products with
>> satisfactory results.
>> They are Russian products, as is Acronis - but I suspect you didn't
>> want to
>> know that!
>>
>> Piers
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Chuck Norcutt [mailto:chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 21
>> January 2009 15:35
>> To: Olympus Camera Discussion
>> Subject: Re: [OM] WiebeTech protective drive cases
>>
>> I used "Acronis True Image 9.0" which is XP (but maybe not Vista
>> compatible). I bought it over a year ago for about $10 from a place
>> selling
>> surplus, back-level software. I didn't know that it could clone a
>> drive. I
>> intended to use it for normal backups but ended up using SyncBack SE
>> instead
>> (with which I am very happy).
>>
>> --snip
>>
>
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