Partitioning your hard drive plays an essential role in maintaining your computer--preventing conflicts, protecting data, improving efficiency, and increasing performance. PowerQuest’s award-winning PartitionMagic allows you to resize, create, move, split, merge, undelete, and convert partitions quickly and easily, without harming your data. The new File Browser allows you to move files from one partition to another regardless of partition type, step-by-step wizards allow you to view changes that will be made before applying them, and DataKeeper provides automatic file backup. Includes BootMagic which enables you to safely run multiple operating systems on the same computer.

Features:

• PQBoot for Windows: while running Windows, select which OS to run the next time the computer is rebooted.
• Enlarge NTFS partitions "hot": no rebooting is required when expanding an NTFS partition, not even the system partition.
• New step-by-step wizards: create a backup partition and install another OS.
• Larger partition support: support for partition sizes up to 160 GB.
• Now supports: Linux Ext3 partitions, GRUB, USB2, and FireWire (1394).
• Install and run multiple operating systems on the same PC.
• Fine tune your system performance by converting to a more efficient file system, changing cluster sizes, or adding a Linux SWAP file partition.
• Create a separate partition for data to facilitate regular backups and separate data from operating systems and applications.
• Test new or unstable software in a separate partition.