Re: will Partition Magic V8 work on NTFS systems like winxp??

Peter Wilkins wrote:
>
> On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 13:08:42 -1000, Joseph Fenn <jfenn@xxxxxxxx> wrote
> :
>
> >I am a little bit worried with this new Partition Magic 8 I bought as
> >to whether in can handle partitoning of NTFS systems like Win/xp
> >also on External hard drives like the Maxtor one touch
> >
> PM8 worked fine on my WinXP SP2 system, changing the NTFS partitioning
> without loss of data and it partitioned my OneTouch2 300G drive and
> also changed it from FAT32 to NTFS with no problems at all.
>
> But what's this about a NEW PM8? I thought PM8 was long gone,taken
> over by Symantec and rebadged. Am I wrong?

Taken over by Symantec, yes. But, there's nothing new about it, as my
8.0 CD is dated 2004.

Notan
.

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