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Welcome to the tutorial guide. The guide will provide a user with instructions and guidance on how to make a USB parted magic flash drive from Windows. Before, we go ahead with this process, it is a good idea to gain knowledge about parted magic. What is parted magic. Parted magic is an operating system which enables a user to perform partitioning tasks in an easy and a user friendly manner. Parted magic offers programs which are pulled from GParted and Parted. Let’s see what programs are offered by Parted Magic:
- fdisk
- sfdisk
- ddrescue
- dd
- Parted Image
- TestDisk,

Essentials for the USB Parted Magic Flash Drive
It is a good idea to know the essentials as required for the USB Parted Magic Flash drive: These essentials are as provided below:
-i586 processor and 256MB of RAM to operate or 128MB in Live mode
-pmagic-usb-4.4.zip
-PM.exe
-Windows PC to perform the installation process

Instructions on how to create a USB Parted Magic Flash Drive
If you are planning to create a USB Parted Magic Flash drive, then please follow step by step instructions as provided below:

-Please insert your USB Flash Drive
- Now, please download the PM.exe and extract to the desktop. Please note that when you have downloaded the PM.exe you will see that a PM folder is created
-Now, you can download the pmagic-usb zip and please extract it in the PM folder (which was created when downloading PM.ex)
-Please click PM.bat from the PM folder. After clicking on the PM.bat folder, please note that you will be provided with a set of onscreen instructions which you have to follow.
- After following the onscreen instructions, please reboot the PC and also set the BIOS or Boot menu to boot from the USB device.

If you have followed all the guidance and instructions as provided in this tutorial guide, then you will have a portable USB Parted Magic Flash Drive. Please note that this USB Parted Magic Flash Drive can be run from any PC that supports booting from USB.