Parted Magic

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Parted Magic
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Screenshot of Parted Magic in 2014
Developer Patrick Verner
Parted Magic LLC.
Written in {{#property:p277}}
OS family Unix-like
Working state Current
Latest release 2016_03_02 / March 2, 2016; 8 years ago (2016-03-02)[1]
Available in English
Platforms IA-32, x86-64
Kernel type Linux (Monolithic)
Default user interface Openbox 3.5.2
License {{#property:p275}}
Official website partedmagic.com

Parted Magic is a commercial Linux distribution with disk partitioning and data recovery tools,[2] sold as a Linux-based bootable disk. The distribution's nomenclature is derived from the name of the software package GNU Parted.

Features

The program is directly bootable from a CD, USB flash drive, or through a network using PXE on PC hardware, and does not require installation, or the presence of an installed operating system.[3]

Although originally designed for mechanical hard disk drives, Parted Magic is suitable for use also with solid state drives and can perform an ATA Secure Erase (a method to return a drive to its factory state that is built into the hard drive controller).

Parted Magic supports reading and writing to a variety of modern file systems, including ext3, ext4, FAT, exFAT, and NTFS, and as such is able to access disk drives formatted for use under Microsoft Windows and GNU/Linux systems.

The software's distribution includes local network and Internet support, and comes with the Firefox web browser.[4]

System requirements

As of version 11.11.11, Parted Magic supports Intel x86 and x86-64 processors natively, and requires a computer with at least an i586 Intel-compatible processor and 175MB of RAM.[5] x86 versions from 2013_09_26 do not require the Physical Address Extension (PAE) computer processor feature.[6]

Availability

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See also

References

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External links

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