Editing PowerQuest

{{Short description|American software company}}
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{{Infobox company
| name = PowerQuest
| type = [[Public company|Public]]
| logo = PowerQuest logo.svg
| founder = Eric J. Ruff
| fate = Acquired by [[Symantec Corporation]]
| industry = [[Software]]
| genre = 
| products = [[PartitionMagic]] <br /> DriveCopy <br /> ServerMagic <br /> [[Drive Image (software)|Drive Image]] <br /> V2i Protector <br/> V2i Builder <br/> Lost & Found <br/> Search & Rescue<br /> DeployCenter <br /> DeltaDeploy
| services = 
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| foundation = [[Orem, Utah]], [[United States|U.S.]]
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| homepage = [http://www.powerquest.com/ Powerquest.com]
}}

'''PowerQuest''' was a [[Software industry|software company]] that produced [[utility software]].  It was acquired by [[NortonLifeLock|Symantec]] in 2003.<ref>{{cite press release|title=Symantec to Acquire PowerQuest|date=2003-09-23|publisher=Symantec|url=http://www.symantec.com/press/2003/n030923.html|accessdate=2007-11-26|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071111044010/http://www.symantec.com/press/2003/n030923.html|archivedate=2007-11-11}}</ref>   PowerQuest's market focus was on management of [[computer data storage]], especially [[file system]]s and [[disk partitioning|disk partitions]].  Their products included [[PartitionMagic]], DriveCopy, [[Drive Image (software)|Drive Image]], and ServerMagic.

PowerQuest was started in the basement of Eric J. Ruff in [[Orem, Utah]]. PowerQuest earned Mr. Ruff the 64th spot on the Inc. 500 list in 2000,<ref>{{cite web|title=Inc. 500 list entry on PowerQuest|url=http://www.inc.com/inc5000/2007/company-profile.html?id=2000064|accessdate=2008-10-04|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120523180618/http://www.inc.com/inc5000/profile/powerquest|archivedate=2012-05-23}}</ref> and earned many awards for being one of the fastest growing software companies in the world.

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== External links ==
* http://www.powerquest.com/ - Original web site (since replaced by Symantec web site)
* {{cite web|url=http://www.powerquest.com/|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20030806000638/http://www.powerquest.com/|title=Archived web site|archivedate=2003-08-06|accessdate=2007-11-30}} (Last [[Internet Archive]] copy from before Symantec acquisition)

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