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It came with my epox board. What do you know about it? Is it something that works or do you even need it?

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Quick summary: Pro Magic Plus is an OEM disk‑imaging / instant‑restore utility (often bundled on motherboard CDs) that creates a reserved “buffer” area on the disk and offers Save / Restore (and a “restore at every boot”) workflow rather than a conventional file backup. ’s identification of it as disc‑imaging/restore software is correct. (manualzilla.com)

How it works (short): the product allocates a buffer area and installs low‑level drivers so it can intercept and roll back changes. A “Save” usually requires an immediate reboot to be valid; a “Restore” is destructive and effectively irreversible for data written after the chosen restore point. A rescue/startup menu (ALT+F10 on many OEM builds) and a rescue disk are part of the vendor documentation. The manual also warns not to install on a disk with bad sectors and notes partitioning limits. (manualzilla.com)

Why the caution: several forum posters in this thread report losing files after uninstall or selecting the wrong Remove option — uninstall prompts to either restore the system or save the current state, and choosing the wrong path can erase unsaved data (reports from and reflect that exact risk). The installer binary commonly appears as Plus.exe under a Wasay/ProMagic folder on systems where it was shipped. (daniweb.com)

Practical, low‑risk steps (actionable): before any attempt to remove or experiment, make an independent full disk image to external media (do not rely on the product’s own “Save” as the only copy). Create bootable rescue media and verify it boots. Well‑tested, free alternatives for imaging and creating rescue media include Clonezilla (CLI) and Rescuezilla (GUI front‑end); for post‑loss recovery, image the drive first and then use TestDisk/PhotoRec or a Windows file‑recovery tool like Recuva. Imaging first preserves the chance of deeper recovery if an attempt goes wrong. (clonezilla.org)

Bottom line: treat Pro Magic Plus like a boot‑level snapshot tool — useful if fully understood and prepared for, but dangerous if removed or uninstalled without an independent backup and rescue media. (manualzilla.com)

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sorry to bring an old thread back to life, but a google search for "Pro Magic Plus" results in this thread on the first page, and very few other 'on-topic' results...

Pro Magic Plus = disc imaging software....

and last of all
The Wasay website also provides a .

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This came with my mobod as part of the disc install. It messed me up real bad. Had to uninstall and lost a bunch of info because of it.

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This came with my mobod as part of the disc install. It messed me up real bad. Had to uninstall and lost a bunch of info because of it.

Advice: DON'T INSTALL IT, and DON'T UNINSTALL IT. I uninstalled, but at least one of the two non-English options uninstalls AND restores to the original save point. Program itself is uninstalled, to no way to revert. Ouch. I feel for you, dude. At least my computer is new, so I didn't lose too much.

New rule for me: no installing stuff where the company cannot put together a single coherent English paragraph on its "English" website. I just hope this thing didn't install a rootkit.

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