PowerQuest and Microsoft are the two software companies of the richest history in my mind. Because I know these two companies for ten years already. Download synergy video express for mac. However, the destiny of these two companies show great difference. Microsoft becomes one of the most famous and soundest companies in the world. I think I don't need to describe how strong it is. While PowerQuest turns into one of Symantec subsidiary.

Partition Magic originally released by PowerQuest is a piece of high-performance and high-efficiency partition management software. It can adjust partitions.

And its most well-known product: Partition Magic has been stopped upgrading for quite a long time. Maybe PowerQuest software has problem, maybe the income of PowerQuest is too little for Symantec, maybe the way of PowerQuest is not the right way that Symantec is walking, PowerQuest lost its glory. A scene appears in my mind suddenly: PowerQuest is just a dancer who is dancing on Microsoft dance floor, as thousands of websites dance on Google.

Without proper dance floor, no dancer can perform well. It seems that everything is controlled by its platform. Software industry is too weak to master its own destiny. PowerQuest can not either.

How can we master our own destiny? PowerQuest and many other software companies teach lessons. United and unalterably keep the way that you want to achieve, PowerQuest said.

A Brief History of Partition Magic Partition Magic is an early partition software. The last version is Partition Magic 8. With it, you can create partitions on your hard disks for storing valuable information such as files, videos, programs and operating systems. Storing information in separate partitions helps you organize and protect your data and reclaim wasted disk space. Besides creating new partitions with Partition Magic, you can also resize, copy, move, label or convert existing partitions from one file system to another-all without losing your data. You can also use Partition Magic to view comprehensive information about your hard drive geometry. Partition Magic was made by the PowerQuest Corporation originally until December 5, 2003, Symantec purchased Partition Magic and renamed it Norton Partition Magic.

As on December 8, 2009, Symantec official website stated that they do not update Partition Magic any more. Partition Magic 8 is the final version of Partition Magic. Partition Magic 8’s Shortcomings After Partition Magic 8, many software company developed different kinds of partition tools.

AOMEI Partition Assistant is one of substitutes for Partition Magic 8. Even updated to Partition Magic 8, Partition Magic does not support Windows Server operating system all the time. But AOMEI Partition Assistant Server Edition does. AOMEI Partition Assistant Server Edition supports from Windows Server 2003 to the latest Windows 2012. Above mentioned Symantec no longer offer Partition Magic on December, 2009. But Partition Magic 8 does not support Windows Vista, which was released in 2007.

Let alone Windows 7, Windows 8/8.1. So the elimination of Partition Magic is sooner or later. However, AOMEI Partition Assistant, moved with the times. It supports from Windows XP to the latest Windows 8.1 perfectly. One of function limitations of Partition Magic 8 is it does not support dynamic disk. In fact, no version of Partition Magic can recognise dynamic disk.

But AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional Edition does. It supports dynamic disks and dynamic volumes management, such as converting dynamic disk to basic, and vice versa. According to software forum, many users encountered various error messages when using Norton Partition Magic 8, include Partition’s drive letter cannot be identified, Init failed: Error 117, etc. As for how to slove Partition Magic error 117, some geeks try to run Partition Magic from DOS so that it does not need to be able to find the drive letter for each partition. What a hard way!

In contrast, all partition optimization operations with AOMEI Partition Assistant are on Windows. The interface of AOMEI Partition Assistant is more friendly and simpler.

Why AOMEI Partition Assistant Can Replaces Partition Magic 8? If you still use Partition Magic 8 under Windows 7/8, however you should know that is so unstable(official states not support these two OS) that you have great chance to encounter problems or system crash when resizing Windows 7/8 partition. Although Windows 7/8 disk management is upgrading a lot and better than Partition Magic 8. It still has many limitations in partition management.