As a software development company, PowerQuest focuses on storage media management, file system and disk partition in particular, and was acquired by Symantec in 2003 along with its featured products including Partition Magic, Server Magic, and Drive Image. Products and services provided by PowerQuest make storage media management simpler and easier attributing to its Virtual Volume Imaging technology and Active State Management architecture.

PowerQuest Server Magic
PowerQuest offers a Server Magic for Windows server operating system users. Server Magic is able to check, format, delete, resize and copy partition for Windows Servers. In addition, it shares a majority of similarities in partition management principle with Partition Magic. On the basis of Partition Magic, Server Magic supports partition management over Windows server operating systems.

Unfortunately, however, Server Magic has never been upgraded or improved as of Symantec's acquisition over PowerQuest. Therefore, it becomes extremely risky for comparatively earlier Windows server systems users to use Server Magic without constant improvement and upgrade and impossible for new Windows server operating systems' users like Windows 2008 to employ Server Magic to manage partition since Server Magic doesn't support Windows server 2008.

Alternative to Server Magic
Are there any alternative to Server Magic for Windows server 2000, Windows 2003 and Windows server 2008? Do they have the same powerful functions like what PowerQuest Server Magic does? Are we going to bear great risks when utilizing these alternatives to manage server partitions?

Taking all above-mentioned questions into consideration, I would like to recommend MiniTool Partition Wizard Server Edtion to Windows Server 2000, 2003, 2008 users as their alternative to PowerQuest Server Magic.



MiniTool Partition Wizard Server Edition has the ability to increase partition, extend partition, wipe partition, resize partition, merge partition, create partition, delete partition, format partition, convert partition format, copy partition, hide partition, explore partition, change drive letter, etc. Moreover, it supports removable disks and offers five different editions to satisfy the diverse needs of user. Furthermore, MiniTool Partition Wizard Server Edition runs perfectly under almost all Windows operating systems including Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows 2003, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows Server 2008 and supports various file systems such as FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS4, and NTFS5.

Thanks to its security, stability, ease of use and all-in-one functions, MiniTool Partition Wizard Server Edtion is recommended as the Best Server Magic alternative by many server users and professionals.