DiskGenius VS Parted Magic

DiskGenius Reviews

Parted Magic Reviews

DiskGenius mentions (3)

• Simplest way in 2022 to clone a full windows installation (on hard drive) to another hard drive?

  DiskGenius is free, relatively easy to use software that can clone your current Windows install to a secondary drive. There's a 'System Migration' function that will properly set up all the boot information as needed, as well as clone all your data. Source: about 2 years ago

• Data recovery services

  Have you tried data recovery software? I recommend DiskDigger and DiskGenius. Source: about 2 years ago

• Migrate windows install between two drives on same computer

  If you want to move everything from one drive to the other, you want to clone the data on the old drive onto the new. Some cloning software, like DiskGenius, have a function to copy your current OS and all data onto a new drive. Source: over 2 years ago

Parted Magic mentions (33)

• Installing windows and it says that driver is missing, not drives

  You could, for example, boot your computer to an operating system which resides on a USB stick, and then examine the health of your existing drive.... Booting to something like Parted Magic, since it has most of the tools you'd need for "fixing" hard drives, already included with the OS. All that would take, is a USB stick, and a computer to download and mount the image on the stick (with a program like YUMI). Source: 10 months ago

• Need help putting unallocated space to windows partition, any help would be appreciated

  But, ranting aside, you can use either * GParted Live, or * PartedMagic To boot into a linux OS and modify the drive's partitions. Specifically you'll want to move the “D:” disk partition to make the unallocated space next to the disk partition you want to extend. Source: 10 months ago

• Completely Wipe an Old Hard Drive: DBAN Alternatives?

  Purchase a copy of Parted Magic. https://partedmagic.com/. I buy one every few years. Supports the maintainer. Great set of tools. Source: 11 months ago

• Completely Wipe an Old Hard Drive: DBAN Alternatives?

  Purchase a copy of parted magic. Great utility Linux distro. I buy a new version every few years. https://partedmagic.com/. Source: 11 months ago

• I want to destroy a hdd(question). I threw it from a balcony 3m tall. Dunked it in water for like 10 days. Can I throw that thing in the trash knowing in the absurd chance someone picks it up, can't recover something?

  For future reference, running something like Active KillDisk or Parted Magic against the drive multiple passes should be more than sufficient to prevent most all recovery unless you're dealing with a government entity. Source: 12 months ago