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Re: [OM] WiebeTech protective drive cases

Subject: Re: [OM] WiebeTech protective drive cases
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 11:44:07 -0500
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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