MagiCure Product Limitations:

• Hard Disk Support – MagiCure can only protect one IDE/SATA/PATA hard drive. If a system has more than one hard disk, Magicure will protect the drive designated as “Primary.”  MagiCure does not support SCSI, RAID or MIRROR hard drive configurations.

• Server Support – MagiCure is a Windows workstation based product, it is not designed to support Windows servers.

• Booting From an External Media (OS) – MagiCure cannot protect the hard drive when changes are made to the hard drive from an external or foreign (non-Windows) operating system bypassing MagiCure protection drivers. For example, booting from a CD-ROM will start a different OS before MagiCure is loaded, that could change the hard drive without acknowledging the existence of MagiCure snapshots on the hard drive and produce unpredictable results.

• Disk Encryption Programs that Intercept Low-Level Disk I/O – MagiCure may conflict with some applications that proxy low-level disk I/O.

• SSD or Solid-State Drive; MagiCure supports SSD but it does NOT support SSD with the trim option (an option of the SSD).  If the SSD drives has the TRIM option enabled, MagiCure cannot process the disk IOs properly

• Compressed Drives – MagiCure does not support NTFS compressed drives. 

• Dual Boot of Windows and Linux OS on the Same Hard Drive – MagiCure does not support systems that have multiple Windows Operating Systems with non-Windows Operating System (like Linux) loaded on the same hard drive.

• Use of Defragmenter Programs – Once installed, MagiCure blocks the use of defragmentation programs. The reason for this is that MagiCure tracks sector change activity, relocates some sectors, and maintains its own map of all sector locations on the hard drive. Defragmentation is the process of locating the noncontiguous sectors of a file and rearranging the sectors and restoring them into fewer sectors. As a result, once MagiCure is installed, the work done by a defragmentation program would not provide the desired result without knowing the sectors used by other snapshots. Thus, defragmentation programs are blocked. The need for a defragmenter varies according to file system and the amount of file creation and update activity on a hard drive. We recommend that defragmentation be done before installing MagiCure. In addition, MagiCure has a build-in defragmenter as the alternative.