Parted Magic Reviews & Product Details

The best thing about Parted Magic is that it does what it says it will do. Its not magic. You still need to know what you are doing but, Parted Magic has re-partitioned and formatted drives that other programs just would not do. Instead of disposing of these "problem" drives, they have been going strong for years! We have had problems with drives that transition from LINUX to Windows or vice versa. Parted Magic was able to revive these drives for us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Being LINUX based, PArted Magic is not the most intuitive program. However, it does fit right in with the LINUX universe. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Helped me set up linux partition locally and then delete it later on with no data loss on the primary partition Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Could be replicated with free/open source tools if the user really wanted to Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Parted Magic has a collection of all the tools that you might require in a LiveISO. Instead of being limited by the speed of the flash drive/CD drive, it runs on RAM, which makes the system very responsive, irrespective of the drive it is initially loaded from. It also has a GUI tool to securely erase SSDs, which is very, very convenient Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I do not like that there is no way to automatically update the ISO that you have already flashed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The ease of use. I found Parted Magic shorted after it was initially released and I found it to be one of the easiest and safest utilities to adjust hard disk partitions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There isn't anything that I didn't like about Parted Magic Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As parted editor is a hard drive management system, it's the best which allows resizing, copying, and moving the partitions. It also helped a lot in shrinking the C drive. It's really good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The one thing that I had to do is boot from CD or flash drives, and earlier it was free, but now we have to pay something in order to use it. Otherwise, it's good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

When you get the dreaded blue screen of death, this product comes to the rescue! I was almost in tears when I got the death screen because I was not thinking about the "what ifs" that could happen by not backing up my information on a regular basis. To be honest, it was the farthest thing from my mind. I love that the regular Joe Blow can use it without having to pay for an expensive IT guy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The updates have been slowing than needed in some instances but when they are dropped, the bug fixes are worth the wait. So I say get that update out as quickly as possible so that customers are sitting there with their thumb up their noses waiting on this to progress. If they are like me, time management is a huge factor because if I can't do it with one product, I'm moving on to something that can. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Parted magic has often helped me recover systems and troubleshoot issues with faulty hardware and failing drives. I appreciate all of the free tools provided to perform various system tasks and the ability to browse the web. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Parted Magic used to be totally free software, but now they are requesting a fee to use the software. While I understand a lot of work went into customizing the operating system -- nearly all the software is FOSS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Disk management is very important when it comes to systematic file storage and this is what Parted Magic has done. It enables the user to erase any unuseful data faster from stored workloads and create space for more important files. Since we deployed it in our offices it has enabled employees to save workloads effectively and transfer data within seconds. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It confuses first-time users without operational knowledge. The overall performance has been excellent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

the same tool for linux and windows, very simple to increase / decrease partitions and the user interface is the same in windows and linux always worked in a simple way Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

when the free space is spread around you need some different steps the obtain a good result Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's easy to use for all OS platforms/models. It provides an efficient way to sanitize hard drives to DOD standard as well as offer additional tools such as system profiler (all system information) of the current machine. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is a delay or "waiting period" for partitioning or securely wiping on certain hard drives. Could take up to multiple hours depending on size of hard drive or RPM levels. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.