PowerQuest was a software company

Software industry

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 that produced utility software

Utility software

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. It was acquired by Symantec

Symantec

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 in 2003. PowerQuest's market focus was on management of computer data storage, especially file system

File system

A file system is a means to organize data expected to be retained after a program terminates by providing procedures to store, retrieve and update data, as well as manage the available space on the device which contain it. A file system organizes data in an efficient manner and is tuned to the...

s and disk partitions

Disk partitioning

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. Their products included PartitionMagic

PartitionMagic

PartitionMagic was a computer program for hard disk drive partitioning originally made by the PowerQuest corporation but now owned by Symantec. As of December 8, 2009, the Symantec website stated that they no longer offer Partition Magic. The program runs on Microsoft Windows operating systems...

, ServerMagic, and Drive Image.

PowerQuest was started in the basement of Eric J. Ruff in Orem, Utah

Orem, Utah

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. PowerQuest earned Mr. Ruff the 124th spot on the Inc. 500 list one year, and earned many awards for being one of the fastest growing software companies in the world.

External links

• http://www.powerquest.com/ - Original web site (since replaced by Symantec web site) (Last Internet Archive
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  copy from before Symantec acquisition)