Where can u get partition magic free?

Calman · 05-07-2003 5:50pm #1

I was looking for partition magic and the sites I got from google try to get me to buy it. Is there an earlier version u can download somewhere for free?

Villain · 05-07-2003 6:30pm

If you know anyone thats big into buying PC mag's they should have got a cover cd with it on it. I got it with a free mag some months ago although I ended up using FDISK.

Heres a software package can't say how good it is do:

http://download.com.com/3000-2248-914828.html?tag=lst-0-1

Hope that helps

irishgeo · 05-07-2003 7:29pm

depending on what OS you are using, an earlier version might be no good to you.

Ryo Hazuki · 05-07-2003 8:27pm

How about a freeware/trial program for managing NTFS Partitions?

Any recommendations?

Calman · 05-07-2003 11:35pm

I always thought partition magic was freeware?

sci0x · 06-07-2003 12:55am

Originally posted by Calman
I always thought partition magic was freeware?

Err, no but you can get it as freewarez ;-) This is illegal and I cannot condone it though (don't want to be banned)

sceptre · 06-07-2003 1:59am

Originally posted by Calman
I always thought partition magic was freeware?

Er, no. It's developed by Powerquest, a company based in Utah. It's never been released as freeware in any version. As people have said, quite a few older versions have been available on PC mag cover discs in the past.

Chad ghostal · 06-07-2003 4:11am

as far as i know partition magic will not work with xp before version 8.. so my friend tells me at least..
iv tried the demo version.
that'l let you do everything up to but not including partitioning a drive..
i pretty sure some commercial linux distros have partition creators very like pm although iv never had to use one... you could always use them and try and get out of installing linux afterwards.. or delete the partition using fdisk..
just a suggestion

DMT · 06-07-2003 10:34am

Originally posted by denis_o_leary
Err, no but you can get it as freewarez ;-) This is illegal and I cannot condone it though (don't want to be banned)

In other words, you would condone it if it didn't get you banned....

Originally posted by Calman
Is there an earlier version u can download somewhere for free?

You could try a free partition manager called Ranish
or you could try a google for
partition managers.

Kali · 06-07-2003 12:06pm

I finally splashed out and bought PartitionMagic 8 about two months ago... well worth the price imo, and damn handy app to have around.

Boston · 06-07-2003 1:27pm

Originally posted by Chad ghostal
as far as i know partition magic will not work with xp before version 8.. so my friend tells me at least..
iv tried the demo version.
that'l let you do everything up to but not including partitioning a drive..
i pretty sure some commercial linux distros have partition creators very like pm although iv never had to use one... you could always use them and try and get out of installing linux afterwards.. or delete the partition using fdisk..
just a suggestion

I'm currently using version 7 with xp

Chad ghostal · 06-07-2003 4:38pm

oh. ok.

Webmonkey · 06-07-2003 11:29pm

Am well can't u get the older versions like version 1.0 for free now? cause its outdated software and its left free now? Correct me if i'm wrong

Ponster · 07-07-2003 5:03pm

Originally posted by Webmonkey
Correct me if i'm wrong

Err, wrong I'm afraid.

Powerquest don't offer any old versions as free downloads and www.shareware.com (nor any of the other major sources) have it available as a free download.

sceptre · 07-07-2003 6:22pm

Originally posted by Webmonkey
Am well can't u get the older versions like version 1.0 for free now? cause its outdated software and its left free now? Correct me if i'm wrong

The copyright on version 1 will run out around the time you die (unless they extend copyright terms again in which case it may be much later). They haven't taken the step of making older versions freely available for a few reasons: they just don't want to / unlike Microsoft they actually add functionality or capacity to new versions (pre-v5 versions wouldn't work with discs larger than 8GB if I remember correctly so there's less demand than you might think for older versions)

Webmonkey · 07-07-2003 6:39pm

Yeah am what do you call outdated software again? Sometimes they do be free though. I remember coming cross a site that had all that . Maybe it wasn't that legal tho

later

./Webmonkey

mike65 · 07-07-2003 9:54pm

Have you got a Seagate drive? If so will Disk Wizard do for you?

http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/drivers/discwiz.html

Mike.

GRAHAM2002 · 08-07-2003 3:12pm

Pm me

Dampsquid · 08-07-2003 4:06pm

Download it off Kazaa

Where can u get partition magic free?

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