as for the use of partition magic..
In my expirience Partition magic cannot be installed on a ntfs hard disk.
(my full version cant be installed on to a ntfs hard disk)
Partition Magic works on NTFS systems flawlessly. Mine is NTFS.

And when it is an operation that needs Windows to be unloaded (like operation on C: where your Windows is installed) , it asks for a restart so that it can perform the requested operations before the loading of OS.