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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

Hirens BootCD mentions (2)

• Ask HN: Do you still use DVD?

  I still put DVD and/or Blu-ray drives in all PCs I personally build for myself and my family. This is due to the fact that we transferred dozens of old captured 16 mm and 8 mm film reels, scanned photo prints, negatives and slides as well as Video8, Hi8, Digital8 and VHS videocassettes to M-DISC DVD and some to Blu-ray. While I uploaded most of this content to Flickr and Google Photos while they were offering... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• My computer reset my user profile name and password. Now I can’t login. What do I do?

  This is what I normally do when needing to change a user account password at work. Http://hirensbootcd.org/ and create a bootable USB drive with it, set it as the boot device in the bios and get and use the NTPasswordEdit tool that should be in a folder on the desktop. Should be able to select the user account on windows and change the password to what you would like. Source: over 1 year ago