Parted Magic for Windows

User Reviews

• SCAM WARNING

  Applebees17/11/2017

  Pros

  see below there are none

  Cons

  they stole my money

  Summary

  THIS IS A SCAM, DO NOT PAY THEM I asked a simple question on the forums, politely, and within a minute my post was deleted, my account was deleted, my email was blocked. A little digging and I found that this is how they treat people. I've yet to receive a refund. PARTED MAGIC IS A SCAM

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• Picks up the slack from Windows Vista

  thp197212/12/2011

  Pros

  Free Works

  Cons

  None for me

  Summary

  Trying to install a couple of 2TB drives into a 3 year old Vista machine. Vista was having trouble formatting the drives in NTFS. Parted Magic had no problems.

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• Your 911 for Computer Needs

  oscarivera910/12/2011

  Pros

  It is loaded with great features. You can check your hard-drives with the SMART tool, run a Memory Test, create, delete, re-size, and even move partitions, clone (copy) entire disks or single partitions, surf the web with Mozilla, run a benchmark of your entire hardware, listen to music from your PC library while you're fixing it, the list goes on. Since Parted Magic is an actual Operating System which boots Live from the CD, you can do almost anything that you normally would do with your standard OS, and more. Parted Magic is designed to help you fix problems which might prevent you from booting into your OS. It's also good at working with partitions (as the name implies). It comes loaded with tons of very useful software. In case you're confused or just need to surf the web while you're waiting for a task to complete, you can use Mozilla Firefox which is the default web browser included with Parted Magic. Instead of reading about it, just download it, burn an iso image & try it Live.

  Cons

  It doesn't talk to me and ask me what I want it to do so that it can do it automatically. It expects that I will use its valuable tools instead of IT using them for me and fixing the problems that I caused. Anyone who complains about Parted Magic must be expecting exactly that.

  Summary

  I try to always have the latest version available in a Live CD from which I can boot in case of emergency. It's already saved me a handful of times from disasters I would have needed professional help to get fixed. If you own a computer you should also own a copy of Parted Magic. It is a Linux Operating System, but it will fix any computer, regardless of your choice of OS. .....and I believe the newest version comes with the new Linux Kernel 3.0! No big deal really, just a new number.

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• not working 99% of the time

  armagedon5111/5/2011

  Pros

  There is no pro really, just use an linux live cd will do the samething.

  Cons

  unreliable. Cannot boot on multiple machines type.

  Summary

  I have tried to boot all versions and none of them work ok. So avoid completelly.

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• Buggy product, censored forum

  superdupereric8/17/2010

  Pros

  Boot USB eventually when USB stick plugged directly in (bypassing hub)

  Cons

  NTFS operations fail or crash the PC Whacky forum administrators for Parted Magic delete your account for criticizing product

  Summary

  Attempting to do basic operations like copy NTFS partition result in "target partition too small". (Yes, I know, don't ask me.) If I manually create a larger partition, I am able to copy into it, but performing an NTFS resize later to make it smaller crashes my laptop, leaving the new partition corrupted and unusable. I posted my problems to their forum and mentioned that because of these bugs I had to continue my search for a partitioning software that wasn't so buggy, and the administrator made a "roll eyes" post mocking my statement. I replied with a question asking why they didn't want to get more information from me to fix the problem rather than poke fun at me. The next day when I came back, my entire account had been wiped out without comment, including not just that thread, but another where I had posted the solution to my usb booting problem (don't use a hub). Oddly, they left the rest of thread there, just not my post, so it's completely useless to other users. Hopefully, at least here I can speak freely without those goofballs wiping my account.

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• It worked to transfer my files to a larger drive

  JIM1NOTE7/18/2010

  Pros

  I misplaced my Partition Magic disks and downloaded Parted Magic (pmagic-zip). This program work very well. I did come across my Partition Magic disks and they are rather dated. I will not look for them the next time.

  Cons

  I was not able to boot the new partition and remembered finally to run a MBR rebuild. Only problems were mine.

  Summary

  It ran well without those fatal Partition errors from Partition Magic which seem to accept no resolution or work around.

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• crap o la o lalala

  rimichael7/13/2010

  Pros

  none at all

  Cons

  everything ...won't work properly on older operating systems

  Summary

  toss it

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• Successful using the liveCD,

  ahtoi7/7/2009

  Pros

  I was able to partition the harddrive easily but the problem I have was that my win2000 was not able to see the whole drive. I will have to figure that one out.

  Cons

  no opinion.

  Summary

  This is a sata drive, it worked at one time but now Partition Magic and win2000 couldn't do anything with it (I think it has something to do with the FAT table being all mess up). At least now I got part of the drive back.

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• Free and worked perfectly on Windows 2003 Server

  cblakework3/20/2009

  Pros

  Booting to the CD and resizing my root partition took a mere 5 minutes. It took longerr to burn the CD on my old writer.

  Cons

  Too bad you have to run it from CD

  Summary

  Worked perfectly, just had to Scandisk on booting, but after that it was seamless. I'm keeping the CD in my toolkit.

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• this is the best live magical cd that i ever seen

  foolip_20092/18/2009

  Pros

  speed --- fast booting ---- easy to use

  Cons

  this the best i cant say any thing !

  Summary

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