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Value of PartitionMagic (was Re: Introduction - Dave Pellatt)

Don Whiteside wrote:
> Looks like a neat tool, but I'd find someone to go in with on the 
> purchase - WAY too expensive for a one-time use product... (~$60)

  I guess it's a matter of how one values that "one-time use".  I've used PM
once to reorganize and resize the partitions on my desktop system in order to
make room for installing Win95.  I was able to move freespace from HPFS
partitions to FAT partitions, move space out of ext/logical partitions to
increase my small DOS primary partition, etc.  I moved or modified every
partition on a pair of 420M disks.

  Basically, I was able to do in half an evening what would have otherwise
taken the entire weekend and then some if I'd done the old system of backup,
repartition, pray, and restore.  (I *did* do a backup though)

  I place the value of my weekends at much more than $60, so even if I never
use PartitionMagic again, I feel I got more than my money's worth.

  Additionally, having PM around changes how you view adjusting partition
sizes.  I never get it perfectly right the first time out with any new disk
drive; used to be I just lived with it 'til I had time.  Now it's very easy to
move things around if you find one partition is getting a little full and you
have another partition on that disk which has excess free space.  A few minutes
with PM and everything's set.

  I expect to use it at least once more when I get around to wiping WarpConnect
from my desktop system.  I will be able to easily delete those partitions and
fold them into the partitions I use under Win95.  (Lest this dissolve into an
OS-war, which does not belong here, let me just say that despite all of Warp's
good points, FOR MY SPECIFIC USES, Win95 does a better job; if someone wants
me to go into the specific details, email me directly)

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