Having read the other reviews here and elsewhere I gave it a whirl.
My purchase was due to having installed windows a fresh due to some dual boot issues and I simply could not be bothered doing it all again.
One 400GB hard drive to be divided, already running windows XP - Arconis installed quickly no problems, scanned the drives within 10 seconds, gave me automated options and upon chopping the disk into a 100gb system drive and a 300gb data drive I hit commit and it was done, reeboot required to complete the task and windows ran beautifully. Only critisism starts here. Once the major task was completed I could not get Arconis to go again without waiting 30 minutes for it to analyse the drives, but what the heck I'm happy and don't ... Read More:
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A full page of all kinds of stuff (rubbish) but nowhere says what this software does. Amazons pages are getting over full of other things and forgetting about the item you are actually looking at. It would be nice to focus on the item you are looking at- put it at the top clear from the rubbish. Oh= and put a description of it too.
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This software is marketed as being compatible with Vista. What they don't tell you is that it only works on Vista 32-bit NOT Vista 64-bit.
As soon as I tried to install the software, a popup informed me that it wasn't compatible with my operating system. This resulted in the installation being abandoned.
Since I only found this out after I removed the shrink wrap I'm not able to return the CD-ROM.
If you have Vista-64, Don't fall into the same trap as me and stay well clear of this product!
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There are a lot of partition tools out there and although I was tempted to go the DIY route for free, I am glad I didn't as there was a lot more to it than I thought. Fortunately Partition Magic took me through the steps required and gave me the tools required to do a successful partition expansion.
The only reason I didn't rate it the full five stars is that the Emergency Disk Recovery tool that comes with it insists on backing up to diskettes - but my machine doesn't have a floppy disk drive and wouldn't recognise the USB pen I tried - definately a case for an update there!
Otherwise a solid and easy to use program - well worth the money for the time it saved me and avoiding the grief I could of caused myself!
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There are a lot of partition tools out there and although I was tempted to go the DIY route for free, I am glad I didn't as there was a lot more to it than I thought. Fortunately Partition Magic took me through the steps required and gave me the tools required to do a successful partition expansion.
The only reason I didn't rate it the full five stars is that the Emergency Disk Recovery tool that comes with it insists on backing up to diskettes - but my machine doesn't have a floppy disk drive and wouldn't recognise the USB pen I tried - definately a case for an update there!
Otherwise a solid and easy to use program - well worth the money for the time it saved me and avoiding the grief I could of caused myself!
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There are a lot of partition tools out there and although I was tempted to go the DIY route for free, I am glad I didn't as there was a lot more to it than I thought. Fortunately Partition Magic took me through the steps required and gave me the tools required to do a successful partition expansion.
The only reason I didn't rate it the full five stars is that the Emergency Disk Recovery tool that comes with it insists on backing up to diskettes - but my machine doesn't have a floppy disk drive and wouldn't recognise the USB pen I tried - definately a case for an update there!
Otherwise a solid and easy to use program - well worth the money for the time it saved me and avoiding the grief I could of caused myself!
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There are a lot of partition tools out there and although I was tempted to go the DIY route for free, I am glad I didn't as there was a lot more to it than I thought. Fortunately Partition Magic took me through the steps required and gave me the tools required to do a successful partition expansion.
The only reason I didn't rate it the full five stars is that the Emergency Disk Recovery tool that comes with it insists on backing up to diskettes - but my machine doesn't have a floppy disk drive and wouldn't recognise the USB pen I tried - definately a case for an update there!
Otherwise a solid and easy to use program - well worth the money for the time it saved me and avoiding the grief I could of caused myself!
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There are a lot of partition tools out there and although I was tempted to go the DIY route for free, I am glad I didn't as there was a lot more to it than I thought. Fortunately Partition Magic took me through the steps required and gave me the tools required to do a successful partition expansion.
The only reason I didn't rate it the full five stars is that the Emergency Disk Recovery tool that comes with it insists on backing up to diskettes - but my machine doesn't have a floppy disk drive and wouldn't recognise the USB pen I tried - definately a case for an update there!
Otherwise a solid and easy to use program - well worth the money for the time it saved me and avoiding the grief I could of caused myself!
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There are a lot of partition tools out there and although I was tempted to go the DIY route for free, I am glad I didn't as there was a lot more to it than I thought. Fortunately Partition Magic took me through the steps required and gave me the tools required to do a successful partition expansion.
The only reason I didn't rate it the full five stars is that the Emergency Disk Recovery tool that comes with it insists on backing up to diskettes - but my machine doesn't have a floppy disk drive and wouldn't recognise the USB pen I tried - definately a case for an update there!
Otherwise a solid and easy to use program - well worth the money for the time it saved me and avoiding the grief I could of caused myself!
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