EaseUS Partition Master vs Parted Magic

EaseUS Partition Master manages drives through operations including creating, deleting, resizing, moving and merging partitions. The Free edition is available for home users, but has limited features and does not support Windows Server. The Professional edition adds partition cloning, operating-system migration to an SSD or HDD, one-click AI smart space adjustment, disk conversions and WinPE boot-media creation. Its conversions include MBR to GPT and the reverse, NTFS to FAT32, and dynamic disks to basic disks. Listed filesystem support includes FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, exFAT, NTFS, ReFS, EXT2, EXT3 and EXT4, with both partition-table types supported. A Mac version supports Intel, M1, M2 and M3 Macs and can read and write NTFS disks and unlock BitLocker-encrypted NTFS/FAT disks. The product is listed for macOS and Windows, and has a free plan and free trial. Listed one-time plans are Professional at $59.95, paid once, Server at $259, paid once, Unlimited at $499, paid once, and Technician at $699, paid once; the plans include free lifetime upgrades.

Parted Magic is paid, bootable Linux software for managing storage from USB, optical disc, or PXE. It requires a 64-bit x86 processor and at least 2 GB of RAM, and supports UEFI Secure Boot, legacy BIOS, and Intel-based Mac hardware. Its tools securely erase ATA, NVMe, SAS/SCSI, and eMMC/SD drives, choosing methods according to drive capabilities. Successful erases produce signed PDF destruction certificates, with exportable cryptographically signed evidence packs. The maker says sanitization follows NIST SP 800-88 Revision 2 and technology-specific methods conform to IEEE 2883. VisParted handles MBR and GPT layouts, filesystem operations, partition moves, and conversion between MBR and GPT. Parted Magic Clone copies disks, partitions, and images while keeping the source read-only and creating verification certificates. Workflows can use local, USB, SSH, Samba, and NFS targets, plus multicast deployment with udpcast. PM Report Server receives status and evidence over a local network and can send email, webhook, or ntfy alerts. It is not an installable Windows application.