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  • Parted Magic Software

    From warmfuzzy@700:100/37 to All on Thu May 20 22:36:14 2021
    If you are ever in need of an inexpensive computer repair suite please check out PartedMagic.com. The author sells it for less than $15 USD. I use it all the time for its nWipe software (a port of DBAN --- Derik's Boot and Nuke). This is used regularly for the repurposing of computers. I regularly receive computers to be wiped clean of all data and I want a nice GUI to do that in. This software works for me.

    -warmfuzzy

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2020/12/04 (Linux/64)
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  • From paulie420@700:100/71 to warmfuzzy on Sun Jun 20 13:53:59 2021
    If you are ever in need of an inexpensive computer repair suite please check out PartedMagic.com. The author sells it for less than $15 USD.
    I use it all the time for its nWipe software (a port of DBAN ---
    Derik's Boot and Nuke). This is used regularly for the repurposing of computers. I regularly receive computers to be wiped clean of all data and I want a nice GUI to do that in. This software works for me.

    -warmfuzzy

    I have a Parted Magic USB Stick for those times that gParted isn't available under a normal desktop OS.

    Its good, and worth the $15 price of admission. IMO.



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    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/06/07 (Raspberry Pi/32)
    * Origin: 2o fOr beeRS>>>20ForBeers.com:1337 (700:100/71)
  • From Greenlfc@700:100/71 to paulie420 on Sun Jun 20 14:46:07 2021
    I didn't realize partedmagic was paid software. It's part of the Hiren suite, so assumed it was 100% open source.

    That said, I'm not sure what's compelling enough to use partedmagic when you can just use a live CD of the distro of your choice and run gparted.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/06/07 (Raspberry Pi/32)
    * Origin: 2o fOr beeRS>>>20ForBeers.com:1337 (700:100/71)
  • From paulie420@700:100/71 to Greenlfc on Sun Jun 20 16:34:40 2021
    I didn't realize partedmagic was paid software. It's part of the Hiren suite, so assumed it was 100% open source.

    That said, I'm not sure what's compelling enough to use partedmagic when you can just use a live CD of the distro of your choice and run gparted.


    TBH, I didn't pay for it either - but I was trying to respect warmfuzzy in case

































































































































    it is and I.... <cough> got it some other way.

    Muahahhaa - anyway, I prefer gParted but sometimes it isn't available when a system went fubar. In those cases, Parted Magic gets the job done.



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    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/06/07 (Raspberry Pi/32)
    * Origin: 2o fOr beeRS>>>20ForBeers.com:1337 (700:100/71)