Description
Parted Magic Overview
Parted Magic is a ready-made solution for working with hard drive partitions based on a bootable LiveCD. The distribution includes a full-fledged operating system. The latter, in turn, in addition to managing partitions, can also configure the installed system, work with the Internet, and also perform any operations with data (delete, restore, transfer, etc.). This is one of the best solutions for partition management in a Linux environment, based on the GParted source code, but it has several differences for the better. So it contains additional features, such as label management, as well as secure data deletion. Third components are available that allow you to fully work with file systems of operating systems of the Windows family. The distribution is based on the Linux kernel and the XFCE desktop environment.
Parted Magic Features
Desktop is now XFCE and you can configure the crap of it now with GUIs and use the save session.
The NVIDIA drivers are used by default. This was a big gain moving to 64bit.
Lots of program requests that were not possible or problematic because of the 32bit system are now included. Libre Office, Wireshark, Keepassxc, VLC, etc…
This should put a smile on a lot of faces… International language support and man pages have returned. All languages supported by Linux should be available. Not a cherry picking of a few European countries. Ibus is also included. You’ll see the new entry in the boot menu to get this going.
The downside… The iso is now 1.5GB. I found some old laptops and tested the bigger Parted Magic. The one with 2GB of RAM worked just fine in Live Mode. Another one with 4GB ran just fine from RAM. Even the cheapest computers made in the last 10 years can still run this.
I’m sure I made a few people mad doing this, but I also made even more happy. As always, I hope version is better than the last.
Key Features:
- Formatting internal and external hard drives.
- Move, copy, create, delete, expand and shrink partitions on your hard drive.
- Cloning hard drives to create a complete backup.
- Checking hard drives and diagnosing them.
- Checking memory for bad sectors.
- Benchmark your computer to evaluate its level of performance.
- Deleting all data on the hard drive, without the possibility of recovery.
- Gives access to the hard drive when systems do not boot, allowing you to save important data.
- Loads from CD/USB into memory, then can work without CD/USB.
- Supports network connections.
File Information
Name: Parted Magic
Version: 2024.02.06
Official website: Parted Magic
Architecture: x64
Treatment: not required
System Requirements
PartedMagic requires at least a 64-bit processor with 4GB of RAM. 2GB in Live mode. Compatible with Secure Boot Windows machines. Runs well on Intel Macs.
Hard disk drives (SATA, IDE, and SCSI). Flash memory. USB drives. SSD (Solid State Drives). Devices with sector sizes of 512, 1024, 2048, 4096, etc
