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Product: Partition Magic 6
Company: PowerQuest
Website: http://www.powerquest.com
Estimated Street Price: $69.95
Review By:
Julien Jay

Final Results and Overall Mark

Table Of Contents
1: Introduction
2: Features & Test
3: Conclusion

Well we have reached the end of the review. Here are my final comments, notes and grades for the PowerQuest Partition Magic 6.0.

 

 

 

 

Final Comments

How It Grades
  Installation: 80%
Performance: 85%
Features: 90%
Reliability: 80%
Ease of use: 80%
Build-in Help
: 70%
Overall: 80%
 

PartitionMagic 6.0 keeps the tradition of the Partition Magic series making it the most flexible and powerful tool that every serious and experienced computer users should definitely have to manage, optimize, resize, divide, partition their hard disk space: in fact i’m still wondering why it isn’t already included with the standard operating systems! As usual this new release simply excels! We strongly recommend you to purchase this great utility right now: there’s no doubt that its awesome features will help you get the most out of your computer and will even let you run several different operating systems easily.

 

 

Specs & Package
Overall Score 80%
Version Reviewed PowerQuest Partition Magic 6.0
Release Date Available Now!
The Good Points

Windows Me & real Windows 2000 support,
Linux support,
New GUI,
Easy to use.

The Bad Points

Still achieve some repartitioning operations in DOS mode,
Requires a boot floppy disk for Windows 2000,
Doesn't support IEEE 1394 HD.

Reviewers PC Setup Pentium 4 1.5 Ghz
Intel D850GB Motherboard

Windows Millennium Edition
384 MB PC800 RDRAM w/ECC
DirectX 8
17" Sony Trinitron Monitor
Hercules 3D Prophet II Ultra 64Mb AGP 4x Graphics Card
Sound Blaster Live! Platinum 5.1
Adaptec 19160 Ultra SCSI card
Pinnacle Studio DV Plus
Pinnacle Studio PCTV USB

Microsoft TrackBall Explorer
Microsoft Natural Keyboard Pro

DVD Pioneer 105s (16/40x)
Yamaha CRW2100E

PC Required

Minimum System

Windows 95/98/Me, Windows NT 4 SP3 or Windows 2000
Pentium class processor or higher
32Mb of RAM
50Mb of free hard disk space
Quad speed or higher CD-Rom Drive
 

 
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