Situation:
This document describes the system requirements for Norton PartitionMagic 8.0 and PartitionMagic.

Solution:
PartitionMagic for Microsoft® Windows® requires a minimum of 70 MB of hard disk space, a CD-ROM drive (any speed), a 3.5-inch floppy drive, a monitor with VGA or higher resolution and a screen area of at least 800 x 600 pixels, and processor and memory requirements as shown below.

Operating system	Minimum RAM	Minimum processor
Windows 95b through Windows 98 SE	32 MB	Pentium/150 MHz or compatible
Windows Me	32 MB	Pentium/150 MHz or compatible
Windows NT® 4.0 Workstation with SP6a applied	32 MB*	Pentium/150 MHz or compatible
Windows 2000 Professional	64 MB*	Pentium/150 MHz or compatible
Windows XP	128 MB*	Pentium/233 MHz or compatible

* Resizing NTFS clusters on partitions over 120 GB in size requires 256 MB RAM.

PartitionMagic supports hardware RAID level 0 (disk striping) and RAID level 5 (striping with parity).

PartitionMagic supports external USB, USB2, and FireWire (1394) hard drives under Windows. Operations that are executed in boot mode are not supported on these devices. See USB, USB2, and FireWire Support for additional information.

The rescue disk version of PartitionMagic requires a Pentium/150-MHz or faster processor, a 3.5-inch floppy drive, 8 MB of RAM (16 MB for NTFS partitions; 32 MB recommended for FAT32 partitions. Some very large partitions may require up to 256 MB. Microsoft recommends 128 MB RAM for Windows 2000 and Windows XP systems, although the product can run on systems with 64 MB RAM.

Document ID: 2004050716123662
Last Modified: 06/25/2004
Date Created: 05/07/2004
Operating System(s): Windows 95, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 98, Windows 98SE, Windows Me, Windows XP Home, Windows XP Pro, Windows 2000, MS-DOS
Product(s): Norton PartitionMagic 8.0, PartitionMagic 8.0