Wow, Partition Magic is horrible.
I'm trying to expand my NTFS partition and it suddenly started popping up with an error message about how my drives don't all have drive letters. Like hell! The only one that Windows can even do anything with has a letter (OBVIOUSLY) and the rest are Linux partitions. Besides, WHY THE HELL DOES IT NEED ALL PARTITIONS TO HAVE DRIVE LETTERS? Drive letters have exactly nothing to do with the partition table.
Oh, guess what the recommended solution is? CREATE A DOS BOOT DISK. Well, for starters, I don't have a floppy drive on this system (last time I used the one on my old system was...uh, let me get back to you on that). Secondly, how exactly is it going to be able to recognize my RAID array? Right, it's not. Nice.
Partition Magic has been completely useless to me thus far. The only bit of partitioning that I didn't do with free, GPL'd tools was create XP's NTFS partition. All of the other moving, shaping, sizing, and all of that was done using free, open source applications. It's gotten to the point now where products created by people in their spare time are considerably better than expensive commercial solutions. Thank goodness.