Parted Magic LiveCD is a powerful, efficient OS with tools for expert users who needs to manipulate their hard drives.
Of course, you should still back up data before using either version.
Version 2.2 includes the more popular Gparted, a robust tool with the ability to change drive partitions without losing data. Parted Magic 2.0 uses VisParted and Parted as core drive manipulation tools. DiskGenius provides an all-in-one solution for data recovery, disk partition management and backup & restore for Windows PCs, Servers and workstations. Many small functions are easy to use, but improperly set actions could result in damage to your file structure.īefore going to the trouble of building the bootable USB, we recommend taking the time to upgrade to Parted Magic version 2.2, which is also freeware.
It's too bad that listings and instructions are almost nonexistent without going to the publisher's Web site. From formatting to rebuilding hard drives, you'll find very useful executables written for Linux. Booting into the Linux OS offers numerous commands and more functions than we could list here. This is one of the better packages of OS and functions to manipulate hard drives. When you're finished, you'll have an OS with more hard-drive-related functions and utilities than you can shake an USB stick at. To properly build the bootable USB drive you'll have to surf to the publisher's Web site for the detailed instructions. The installer also lets you create a bootable rescue floppy.This robust and useful freeware suite will help you create a bootable USB drive containing Linux and tools to manipulate your hard drive. To install under Windows, you'll need a serial number, but it looks like it accepts pretty much anything that starts with "PM400FRCD-", whether it is followed by 6 numbers (like my actual serial) or not. It will also install under XP but the main program won't run because that's higher than NT 4 (XP is actually NT 5.1 while Windows 2000 is NT 5.0).Īlso includes the optional BootMagic boot manager, and MagicMover application (meant to allow moving an already installed program to another drive/path without uninstalling and reinstalling it). It can install under MS DOS 5.0 or higher, Windows 3.x, 95, 98 or NT 4. It's strongly advised to NOT use this version with any hard disk bigger than a few dozen GB or with a filesystem newer than itself as it will probably not recognize it entirely, and it might find and try to automatically fix what it will interprets as "errors", thus breaking stuff.īasically only test it on old hardware or a virtual machine where you have no absolutely nothing you're afraid of losing.
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