# Is there a bootable utility like Partition Magic?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 8, 2004, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-bootable-utility-like-partition-magic/258856 "2004-08-08T04:25:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2004, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-bootable-utility-like-partition-magic/258856/1 "2004-08-08T04:25:40Z")

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Or is there a bootable version of Partition Magic?

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**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2004, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-bootable-utility-like-partition-magic/258856/2 "2004-08-08T10:45:09Z")

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Using Partition Magic you can create bootable rescue disks which can be used to restore a disk completely from another source, such as a second hard drive or other media.