Parted Magic Reviews and details

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• 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

• Windows Allergic to specific harddrive: How to confirm drive failure?

  Yes, Parted Magic is based on a Slackware distro (https://partedmagic.com). Can you see any S.M.A.R.T. Status info? Source: about 1 year ago

• I deleted this file from boot ...I think i fucked up i cant boot ...how can i fix that?

  I keep a paid-for copy of Parted Magic (that I further added refind to) on a USB stick as my BIOS/UEFI bootable live CD... Only rarely needed but always handy. Source: over 1 year ago

• Wonder Twin powers, activate!

  I always used to use PartedMagic and I know it's no longer free, but to be honest I bought a copy back in 2019 and I've been using that ever since... Just for the convenience. Source: over 1 year ago

• what is the 7gb partition for on my vista install? looking tonreclaim more space because it is a small ssd...

  If you can't, since you come from linux, you can try to lanch a live session of linux and run gparted. Then you will be able to reallocate this space to your windows. (Tip : you can use Parted Magic). Source: over 1 year ago

• Available Solutions for Device Wiping?

  PartedMagic is one of my favorite tools, I don't think it handles mobile devices but I'm not quite sure you'll find anything that really will in the same sense. Source: over 1 year ago

• Coworker wants to use a Linux machine for help desk customer backups and clones, what distro is recommended?

  Do you have a budget for this project? You might-could buy a subscription to Parted Magic. You can boot if from an internal drive, using the “frugal install”. Source: over 1 year ago

• BTRFS / + EXT2 /boot and moving partition

  I prefer PartedMagic for this sort of thing, but any distro that's bootable from a USB drive should do. Source: over 1 year ago

• is there a program that will wipe hard drive on a usb?

  Some utility distros like Parted Magic make this trivial and it is worth a few bucks to have a copy of Parted Magic laying around. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Wiping a lot of SSDs

  You could get a specialized live CD like [PartedMagic]|(https://partedmagic.com/) which includes a convenient graphical secure erase tool right on the desktop. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Urgent help needed!

  I usually keep a copy of Parted Magic around for such emergencies. https://partedmagic.com/ ​. Source: about 2 years ago

• help, can't install cutting edge/rolling Linux distro because of kernel panics

  For years I have periodically purchased a copy of Parted Magic. I keep it around as my go to "swiss army knife" for all sorts of things. There are other free utility distros, but none are as complete as this one. Source: about 2 years ago

• Where is the real JDownloader?

  u/LimesKey you are missing the point. For starters - I know what happened. Nuke means to legitimately wipe all drives and shred them using https://partedmagic.com/ I am insulted you think I am just blowing smoke. If you are not going to take what I say seriously just stop commenting. Source: over 2 years ago

• Secure erase SSD with no chance of data recovery

  I use Parted Magic https://partedmagic.com/ a bootable Linux LiveUSB to issue the command. Some consumer motherboards can issue it as well; I have not tried this. Enterprise gear should have built-in ways of issuing the command. Also it can be issues natively on Linux systems with commands "hdparm" for SATA drives, or "nvme" for NVMe drives, with different arguments. This article goes into good detail, I have not... Source: over 2 years ago

• TIFU by disabling all the USB ports on my PC in Device Manager permanently.

  If you are interested, Parted Magic is a great Linux distro for recovery work. Source: over 2 years ago

• Any good live OS for managing drive partitions?

  The live USB distro of Parted Magic got a load of bad vibes for going "non-free" but to be honest, at $13 for a one-time license, or $50/year to take all the updates, it works well for me, and if you buy and sell as a side gig I expect the up-to-date and hassle-free nature of it is worth at least a one-off purchase. Source: over 2 years ago

• Eraser set to Gutmann files still recoverable after three separate deletions.

  Alternatively, you could try booting PartedMagic from a thumb drive then run fstrim against your system volume and see how it works out. PartedMagic comes equipped with a 'swiss army knife' set of drivers so it might have better luck with your hardware than your regular desktop OS. Source: over 2 years ago