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Re:Hiren’s BootCD Based on Windows 10 PE X64 by excalibur on Friday October 11, 2019 @03:56PM (#21227845)
At my last job I had a Hiren's CD that I used frequently... to boot up Parted Magic on certain hardware.

Doesn't look like that's included anymore, but this wouldn't run on that old hardware anyway.

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Re:Hiren’s BootCD Based on Windows 10 PE X64 by josteink on Friday October 11, 2019 @04:21PM (#21228091)
These days you have the Ubuntu live-dvd/usb image with Gparted to cover those needs.

Parted Magic has really not kept well up.

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Re:Hiren’s BootCD Based on Windows 10 PE X64 by arthurfm on Saturday October 12, 2019 @12:43AM (#21230737)
Do you know of a good Linux live DVD/USB for securely erasing SSDs (both SATA and NVMe)? Parted Magic includes a nice app for doing this [1]. Although it is just a front end for hdparm, nvme-cli [2], nwipe etc. I haven't found an alternative that is as quick and easy to use.

[1] https://partedmagic.com/secure-erase/

[2] http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/secure-erase-hdds-ss...

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