Parted magic – bootable USB/CD-DVD with disk utilities.

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Parted Magic – mini OS, with the full set of utilities and options essential for proper access to your HDD data, has built-in disk explorer, browser, connection manager and many other. In case if you have encountered a fatal Windows error and OS does not boot any more, you can use such bootable OS to access the data on your HDD, copy CD’s or DVD’s, format or resize your drives or for web access, when you need to download something (drivers, required to restore your Win and so on or just google for the solution).

Parted Magic can be easily installed on your USB stick or CD\DVD and make it bootable. By creating bootable OS on your portable data carrier you will get a pocket size ultimate solution for almost any software problems. That how Parted Magic OS looks like:

Features overview:

PFD Viewer
TruCrypt
Zip\Rar archiver
Adobe Flash player
Image Viewer
ISO Master (for CD\DVD image files)
Clonezilla
Disk Eraser
Partition Editor (Partition Magic analogue – HDD tool)
FireFox web browser
gFTP (FTP client)
Java support
Remote Desktop Client
VNC Viewer
Xfburn (CD\DVD burner)

How to create bootable OS:

Download ISO image of Parted Magic

Plug in your USB stick
Download UNetbootin (download) (tool, required in order to create bootable device from ISO image) and run it
Choose Disk image in the install master (1); browse for a Parted Magic image file location (2); Choose Type – USB (3) and click OK (4).

Screenshot with proper settings below:

Wait till installation is done and click Exit:

Bootable USB has been created and is ready for action. Let’s test it. Reboot your PC and go to your BIOS boot menu (usually by pressing F10 right when your PC starts to boot). Choose “Boot from USB: option, after press Enter.
Wait for one more reboot and choose “Default settings (Runs from RAM)” in Parted Magic boot options window.

In a minute or two Parted Magic OS will boot. If you need to edit your HDD – user Partition Editor icon to run the proper tool, which will be located on your desktop.