A LiveCD distro with tools for complete hard disk management
From https://partedmagic.com:
Disk Partitioning Parted Magic is loaded with tools to get the job done. With the Gnome Partition Editor you can resize, copy, and move partitions without data loss enabling you to grow or shrink your C: drive, create space for new operating systems, and attempt data rescue from lost partitions.
Disk Cloning Use the powerful Clonezilla to clone a computer's entire disk or a single partition to a separate storage device. The cloned data can be saved as an image-file or as a duplicated copy of the data. The data can be saved to locally attached storage device, an SSH server, a Samba Server, or an NFS file-share. The clone file can then be used to restore the original when needed.
Data Rescue Parted Magic allows you to easily reset or change Windows passwords, recover lost files, and rescue files from devices with read errors.
Disk Erasing Need to wipe your drive of all data? No problem. Parted Magic comes with easy to use solutions for conventional overwrites via NWipe (DBAN clone), Internal Secure Erase, and wiping of only Free Space.
Benchmarking All the benchmarking tools you would ever need! Bonnie++, IOzone, HardInfo, System Stability Tester, mprime, and stress.
