Parted Magic
by Parted Magic · Bootable USB disk utility for secure erase, partitioning and cloning
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Overview
Parted Magic is a bootable disk utility that starts from a USB stick, optical disc or PXE server and runs entirely in memory, so the host system is not modified. It covers three jobs: NIST SP 800-88 Rev. 2 secure erase with a signed PDF certificate of destruction, partition editing with VisParted, and cloning or imaging with Parted Magic Clonezilla and ddrescue.
- Best for
- IT technicians and admins who need to erase, partition or clone drives on machines without an OS.
- Pricing
- No prices appear in the captured text; it states only that one licence covers unlimited drives with no per-seat or per-drive fees.
Strengths and trade-offs
Strengths
- NIST SP 800-88 Rev. 2 erase with a signed PDF certificate
- One licence covers unlimited drives, no per-seat or per-drive fees
- Runs in memory from USB, so the host operating system is untouched
- Boots under UEFI Secure Boot; SATA, NVMe, SAS, IDE, USB and eMMC
Trade-offs
- Each machine must be taken offline and booted from the stick to use it
- XFCE desktop runs as root on X11, with no privilege separation
- exFAT, F2FS, JFS, ZFS and NILFS have limited support only
- Needs 64-bit x86 with 2 GB RAM; no ARM or Apple silicon mentioned
How Parted Magic markets itself
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Homepage capture
“Disk Management Software: Erase, Partition, Clone”
- Angle: Outcome / benefit-led
- Hero: Typography only
Pricing
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How this score is made up
Each dimension is scored out of 100 and combined into the headline score using fixed weights.
MCP support
Whether an agent can drive the product through the Model Context Protocol, and how much setup that takes.
Documentation
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Agent friendliness
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Changelog
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Marketing site structure
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Page speed
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Operational trust
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Openness
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Maintenance
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