An Orem company received one of the coveted best of show awards from BYTE Magazine at the COMDEX/-Fall '95 show in Las Vegas this week.
PowerQuest Corp. received the best utility award for its Partition-Magic, a program that allows users to better manage computer hard-drive space. The company introduced its second version of the product at COMDEX."With thousands of files on the average system, inefficient clusters can add up to a lot of wasted space - frequently hundreds of megabytes," said Eric Ruff, president. "PartitionMagic 2.0 lets you adjust cluster size and reclaim that lost disk space."
PartitionMagic allows a computer user to reconfigure the hard drive by clicking on a graphical representation of a partition and dragging it to whatever size he desires, within limits.
One example of what the program can do: You can put children's game files in a separate partition so if a game crashes it doesn't corrupt other more important data files.
The company also received the Business of the Year award from the city of Orem this week. PowerQuest, which incorporated in 1993, began shipping PartitionMagic in March and has already achieved $1 million in sales. The company has 25 employees.