Parted Magic LiveCD 3

• License:

  Free

• Editor's Rating:

  5.0 stars

• Average User Rating:

  3.5 stars (out of 35 votes) Rate it!

• Downloads:

  184,279

• Operating Systems:

  Windows Vista, Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows 3.x, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows 98

• Additional Requirements:

  Windows 3.x/95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003 Server/Vista

• Limitations:

  No limitations

• Date Added:

  October 01, 2008

• Previous Versions:

  Select a version Parted Magic LiveCD 2 Parted Magic LiveCD 1.9 Parted Magic LiveCD 1.8 Parted Magic 1.8 Parted Magic 1.6 Parted Magic 1.7 Parted Magic 1.6

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Publisher's description of Parted Magic LiveCD

Optimized at approximately 45MB, the Parted Magic OS employs core programs of GParted and Parted to handle partitioning tasks with ease, while featuring other useful programs (e.g. Partition Image, TestDisk, fdisk, sfdisk, dd, and ddrescue) and an excellent set of documentation to benefit the user. An extensive collection of fileystem tools are also included, as Parted Magic supports the following: ext2, ext3, ext4, fat16, fat32, hfs, hfs+, jfs, linux-swap, ntfs, reiserfs, reiser4, and xfs.

Version 3 has updated with Linux 2.6.26, Parted 1.8.8, ntfsprogs-2.0.0, ntfs-3g-2712, and GParted-0.3.8.

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Editor's review of Parted Magic LiveCD

• 5.0 stars

• "Parted Magic LiveCD"

• Reviewed by: CNET Staff
• Version reviewed: Parted Magic LiveCD 3

Build a robust Linux install with dozens of functions and applications designed to work on hard drives. Building Parted Magic LiveCD requires a CD burning tool to create the bootable CD with the OS and functions.

Booting into the Linux OS offers numerous commands to work on your hard drive, and includes more functions than we could list here. Users should definitely take the time to surf to the publisher's Web site to study the CD's major applications before getting started. Some instructions are included with this package, but testers recommend only experienced users tackle this OS and applications. Many of the functions are easy to use, but improperly set actions could result in damage to your file structure. As the publishers note, this version of Parted Magic uses VisParted and Parted, but version 2.2 includes the more popular Gparted, a robust tool with the capability to change drive partitions without losing data.

Still, this version of the freeware is a powerful efficient tool to help experienced users manipulate their hard drives.

User reviews

• Average user rating: 3.9 stars out of 35 votes
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• 4 stars

  Version: Parted Magic LiveCD 3

  "Successful using the liveCD,"

  by ahtoi on July 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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• 5 stars

  Version: Parted Magic LiveCD 3

  "Free and worked perfectly on Windows 2003 Server"

  by cblakework on March 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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• 5 stars

  Version: Parted Magic LiveCD 3

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

  by foolip_2009 on February 18, 2009

  Pros: speed --- fast booting ---- easy to use

  Cons: this the best i cant say any thing !

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• 5 stars

  Version: Parted Magic LiveCD 3

  "A versatile and useful utility"

  by ptm2me on January 24, 2009

  Pros: The ability to deal with partitioning and data issues - I suffered a problem on an external hard drive and could not access my data (I could not even access the drive). Parted Magic provided a solution.

  Cons: I have not found any downsides.

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• 5 stars

  1 out of 1 people found this review helpful

  Version: Parted Magic LiveCD 3

  "Need some Linux experience but worked great"

  by amyiw on December 14, 2008

  Pros: Partitioning software easy to use and understand. Imagining software with many options. Recognized my WD USB backup drive.

  Cons: A knowledge of Linux is needed. Imagining software is not intuitive. The paths of your drives are not listed so you have to find them. You must unmount the drive you are imagining to though the program does this for you.

  Summary: This was the third partitioning/imagining software (free) that I tried but this was the one that finally worked for me. Image Partition did not recognize my USB drive. System Rescue Live CD (also Linux) didn't not work. Cannot remember what went w... read more >>

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