For many years I was a PowerQuest customer. I used DriveImage and Partition Magic exclusively.
It all fell apart with DriveImage 7. They turned what used to be a great imaging program that totally kicked Ghosts's ass into a useless, product activated, pain in the ass back up program instead of what it was born to be.
It must have killed sales completely. They were bought by Symantec in 2003, and in no suprise whatsoever, Symantec basically killed the products. It seems to have been a typical buy & shelve maneuver of a competitor than anything else, which we've seen many times from Symantec.
I switched to all Acronis stuff in 2002/2003 and haven't looked back.
I do have to say I don't think PartitionMagic has been beaten by any company since. It's just a shame it's not being updated any longer, and hasn't for years, and compatibility is way off now making it pretty much useless with current day stuff.
TrueImage's use of the Network is brilliant. It actually works. This was always a big problem with DriveImage, and usually required the creation of special boot disks with NIC drivers, etc... much like Ghost. TrueImage builds a boot system that seems to work in just about every environment.
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