Easily organize your hard drive

Software Information

Symantec’s Norton PartitionMagic 8.0 lets you easily organize your hard drive by creating, resizing, copying, and merging disk partitions. Separate your operating system, applications, documents, music, photos, computer games, and backup files to reduce the risk of data loss if your system crashes. You can use Norton PartitionMagic 8.0 to run multiple operating systems safely.

         Separate and protect your data
         Run multiple operating systems safely
         Create, resize, and copy partitions

Software Best Highlights

Organize your hard drive efficiently
Storing all your data on one C: drive is like throwing all your file folders into one huge drawer.  Norton Partition Magic creates separate "file drawers" - multiple virtual drives on a single hard drive.  If your needs change, you can resize, merge partitions, or copy them to another hard drive at any time.

Protect your data
Don't jeopardize your work files or cherished family photos by storing them in the same disk space as risky Internet downloads. Keep them safer by keeping them separate. Partitions work like individual hard drives, so a problem with one rarely affects the data in others. Data in separate partitions protects you from system crashes, and also simplifies backups, data retrieval, and system migrations.

Run multiple operating systems safely
Want to keep your old version of Microsoft windows while testing a new one?  Or use both Microsoft windows and Linux on the same PC?  With Norton Partition Magic, you can make separate areas for each operating system, then choose which operating system to run when you restart your computer, without interference from the other. When the computer is using Microsoft windows, an intuitive browser lets you view, copy, and paste both Microsoft windows and Linux files and folders.

Partition your drive easily
Disk partitioning isn't only for computer experts anymore. Just follow the step-by-step instructions in the partition wizard and you'll be ready to go!  There are also wizards for backing up your data and installing another operating system.


Software Features

• Divides a single hard drive into two or more partitions.
• Lets you safely run multiple operating systems on the same PC.
• BootMagic makes it easy to switch between different operating systems.
• Allows you to copy, move, resize, split, or merge partitions as needed—without losing data.
• How-to wizards guide you step by step through the partitioning process.
• Intuitive Microsoft windows®-based browser lets you find, copy and paste files in both Microsoft windows and Linux® partitions.
• Allows you to create and modify partitions up to 300 GB.*
• Supports USB 2.0, USB 1.1, and FireWire® external drives.**
• Supports FAT, FAT32, NTFS, Ext2, and Ext3 file systems.
• Converts partitions among FAT, FAT32, and NTFS without losing data.
• Allows you to enlarge an NTFS partition without restarting your computer.
• Resizes NTFS system clusters to the most effective size.

  * Supports operations on partition sizes as large as 300 GB when partition is less than 90% full. Larger hard drives may require additional memory.

** For these devices, operation on partitions with no open files.

Software Computer Requirements

Microsoft windows XP Home Edition/Professional

• 233MHz or higher processor
• 128 MB of RAM

Microsoft windows 2000 Professional

• 150MHz or higher processor
• 64 MB of RAM

Microsoft windows NT WS/Me/98/98SE

• 150MHz or higher processor
• 32 MB of RAM

REQUIRED FOR ALL INSTALLATIONS

• 55 MB of available hard disk space
• DVD or CD-ROM drive