Acronis Ships Acronis PartitionExpert 2003, First Utility to Provide Two Ways For Users To Create, Resize, Move, & Copy Partitions.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO South San Francisco, city (1990 pop. 54,312), San Mateo co., W Calif.; inc. 1908. South San Francisco has several industrial parks; its manufactures include medical supplies and equipment, foods, paint, paper products, consumer goods, and clothing. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 17, 2002 Acronis, Inc., the technological leader in systems software development, has begun shipment of Acronis PartitionExpert 2003, the only disk partitioning See partition. utility to boasts two modes of operation that ensure that everyone from average PC users to IT professionals can create, resize Verb 1. resize - change the size of; make the size more appropriate size - make to a size; bring to a suitable size rescale - establish on a new scale and copy disk partitions See partition. successfully. Acronis PartitionExpert 2003 accomplishes this by offering both an automated and manual mode using a Windows XP-like interface. The automated mode uses a task-based wizard that takes average users through the steps to create, resize or copy partitions. The manual mode puts all of the features and options at the user's fingertips "Fingertips" is a 1963 number-one hit single recorded live by "Little" Stevie Wonder for Motown's Tamla label. Wonder's first hit single, "Fingertips" was the first live, non-studio recording to reach number-one on the Billboard Pop Singles chart in the United States. . "Competitive disk utilities are hard to use because they are confusing and give the average PC user too many variables; there is too much of an opportunity to make a mistake and put user data at risk," says Dennis Burke, manager of business development at Acronis. "Acronis PartitionExpert 2003 takes the mystery and anxiety out of creating disk partitions by giving the average PC user a wizard that automates the tasks and ensure the their data is secure. The expert user appreciates the array of options and flexibility available in the manual mode." Also unique to Acronis PartitionExpert 2003 is its support for all popular Windows and Linux file systems, including exclusive support for Linux Ext3 and ReiserFS. "Acronis PartitionExpert is significantly faster than any competitive product --10 times faster or more -- because of its innovative technology," says Maxim Tsypliaev, president of Acronis, Inc. "For example, a user can resize a partition in minutes, while a competitive product could take an hour or more to complete that same task." After installation, users can create a bootable disk A CD-ROM or DVD-ROM that contains its own operating system ready to load. PCs are typically configured to look for the OS on a CD or DVD first and then the hard disk. System and Data Recovery or CD that can perform partitioning tasks on any computer, with or without an operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. installed. "A bonus utility included with the retail boxed version is Acronis RecoveryExpert, a program that lets users quickly and easily recover a partition that has been lost or deleted," adds Burke. "Some data recovery services charge $500 or more to restore lost data, which all that was lost was the partition information. If you ever accidentally delete a partition or have a system failure that deletes the partition data, this program will more than pay for itself." The utility, which lists for $30 on the Acronis Web site, is included at no extra charge. Acronis PartitionExpert 2003 is currently shipping. It is available through major retail outlets and directly from Acronis at www.acronis.com. List price is $49.99. It can be installed on a PC running any version of Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP Refers to all 32-bit versions of Windows. It specifically excludes Windows 3.x. See Windows. . About Acronis With offices in the Unites States, Europe and Asia, Acronis offers system utilities for every user. Acronis prides itself on giving the user technically advanced software through easy-to-use Windows interfaces, wizards and one-click icon products. Partitioning, boot management, privacy, data migration, and other system software areas are not just for experts PC users. Acronis developed its product lines specifically to meet every users need at every level of computer expertise. Its award-winning system utilities include Acronis OS Selector (programming) selector - 1. In Smalltalk or Objective C, the syntax of a message which selects a particular method in the target object. 2. An operation that returns the state of an object but does not alter that state. 8.0, Acronis True Image Acronis True Image is a disk imaging and disaster recovery applications program for computers produced by Acronis. True Image can create an image of a disk while it is running Microsoft Windows or Linux, or offline, and can restore the image to another disk, resizing partitions if 6.0, Acronis PrivacyExpert 2003, Acronis Migrate Easy 6.0, Acronis PowerUtilities 2003, Acronis Disk Editor 6.0, Acronis RecoveryExpert, Acronis DriveCleanser 6.0, and Acronis PartitionExpert 2003. For additional information, please visit http://www.acronis.com or contact Stephen Lawton at Stephen.Lawton@acronis.com. |
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