gparted is gnome's tool for partitioning disks. It can create, delete, resize, move, copy, format, and check partitions with most common file systems.
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How can I recover a lost MBR/boot sector?
I had a VDI (VirtualBox Virtual Disk Image) with Ubuntu 11.10 (64bit, I think) installed on it. Earlier, while running a GParted live CD on my Virtual Machine to erase the partition table of another ...
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How to remove bad sectors information from cloned partition?
When some bad sectors ( literally 5 ) appeared on my previous HDD, I decided to replace it. I decided to clone whole drive using dd (run from GPartEd) in do-not-stop-on-read-error mode. That is:
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Cloning the partition of a drive onto another drive
I'm trying to make a clone (using GParted) of the contents of my Oracle VirtualBox VDI containing a version of Ubuntu that I run on a Virtual Machine onto a real disk which is connected to the VM as a ...
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Increase partition size with GParted
I am using GParted to increase the size of a partition (C:).
I have reduced the size of the D: partition and have plenty of unallocated space right after the C: partition, but it simply won't let me ...
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HP Recovery partition not accessable after repartitioning
I have HP Laptop that came with preinstalled Win 7. It actually had 4 primary partitions:
200 MB System partition that is not visible in Windows
C: partition
HP_Recovery partition of about 15 GB
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Windows 8 Consumer Preview doesn't boot off a DVD of GParted
I have a Windows 8 Consumer Preview installation on my desktop computer. It's been running pretty well, except for a few issues that are not related by a long shot.
Until now. I wanted to install ...
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Partitioning laptop with 4 primary partitions
I have HP laptop with 4 primary partitions.
The second one is windows partition and other 3 are recovery, system and blah blah(i.e. unusable)
So, basically my explorer shows only one partition where i ...
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increasing size of .disk fat32 file size
I am struggling to increase a .disk image file ( fat32 formatted ). But not getting success.
link to file
its around 3 mb. After mounting when I put additional files, it says out of space.
I have ...
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Non destructively enlarging HFS+ system partition
How can I enlarge my HFS+ system partition?
I've tried GParted and other methods (the dragging scrubber is not available, even booting with installation DVD to ensure that the system partition is not ...
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Reboot fails with “Invalid partition”
My laptop can boot, but it can't reboot. Any time something restarts the laptop (e.g. to apply Windows updates, or Start Menu->Restart, etc), the computer sits at a black screen with the message ...
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Resize main partition with gparted
I'm trying to create a dual-boot machine, having Linux Mint 12 installed already. I have only one partition that occupies the whole hdd space. I want to cut some space from it and create a new ...
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GParted won't detect devices after reformatting OS
I wanted to get rid of my partitions. A friend decided to tell me about GParted and I said, "OK, sounds good". I deleted my Linux partition and forgot about GRUB.
Now I get a GRUB boot error. So I ...
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Moving linux partition so to be next to free space
I had a triple boot windows 7, Ubuntu 10.10 and Ubuntu 11.10. I deleted the partition that the 11.10 was in and now I have free space on my ext4 partition. I want to use that space which is located ...
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Mismatch between CxHxS and “total number of sectors”
Model: ATA ST320LT007-9ZV14 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 38913,80,62
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
BIOS cylinder,head,sector geometry: 38913,255,63. Each cylinder is 8225kB.
Partition Table: ...
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How extend linux partition with gparted cd live?
I have ubuntu and i want to enlarge the disk space of /dev/sda1 from 10GB to 90GB.
gparted Ubuntu 9.04 live cd show:
Partition File System Size
/dev/sda1 ext4 10GB
/dev/sda2 ...
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How do I boot VMWare guest with gParted in VMWare Infrastructure Client?
I've got ESXi on my server and have couple of Guests on it. I have increased HD size of one the guests but when I boot into that guest - Win Server 2003 - it is not reflected. I know why. I need to ...
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parted says: Error: Can't have overlapping partitions
I printed my partition table by parted:
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 0.03MB 64429MB 64429MB primary ntfs boot
64429MB ...
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How to extend a Linux ext3 partition?
I have the following partitions on my HDD:
I want to extend my Linux partition /dev/sda6 with the unallocated space of ~1GB above it.
But when I right click on this partition the option to ...
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partition not available after resize using gparted. how to recover it?
I ran into a problem with my HDD.
I tried to make some space for my linux partition using gparted and I resized one of my NTFS partitions. Unfortunately, the operation didn't succeed and my ...
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How to fix partition table ordering?
I was going to install a completely fresh Linux distribution (Mageia) and I saw it as an opportunity to reorganize my partitions. I wanted all my non-Linux (Windows, restore, etc) partitions at the ...
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Gparted will not resize Windows XP system partition
My C: system boot partition needs to be bigger. Tried Acronis, EASUS, and PM within Windows but the partition could not be enlarged with either a merge with another partition or resizing with ...
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Repartitioning dual booting Macbook
I have a Macbook Pro configured to dual boot OSX or Ubuntu. Originally, I split the drive evenly between the two, but as I've been using Ubuntu far more heavily, and I'm running out of space on its ...
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Backtrack 5 on a Macbook Pro
Ok, so I have an Apple MacBook Pro MD313LL/A powered by OSX Lion.
What I am trying to do is to get Backtrack to run natively on it.
Since bootcamp only supports windows dualbooting, I found a ...
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Can it cause any kind of REAL problems to resize a partition after having an OS installed on it - or is it just an urban legend?
I just bought a laptop with some pre-setup partitions like recovery partition, OEM partition, a smaller Windows-partition and the Windows system partition. Their structure and size looks like this:
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Turning unallocated space into an NTFS partition
I want to dual boot Ubuntu and Windows 7. Here's my GParted configuration:
I want to set all the unallocated space to use the NTFS system so I can store my media files.
dev/sda1 is MBR
dev/sda2 is ...
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Parted Resize doesnt show up in mount
I used GParted to resize/move a partition on disk. The initial size was 50MB, but I shrunk my C:\ partition in windows, and then moved the start back 50GB
This shows up in parted
Model: ATA TOSHIBA ...
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Gparted recognizes four partitions as one single partition
I was trying to install Ubuntu 11.04. But Gparted did not recognize my machine partitions correctly.
This is how Windows 7 Disk Manager showed partitions:
Volume---------------------File ...
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GParted stuck applying operations after copying partition between two disks
I'm copying a partition I had on a virtual disk (VirtualBox) to a real disk. I ran GParted on the virtual machine and copied the main partition (12.98 GiB) over to the new disk, and during the copy I ...
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Windows XP freezes on welcome screen after resizing partitions
I am using Windows XP and Linux on a dual boot system and after resizing the partitions, Windows hangs just before login. I shrank the Linux partition and enlarged the Windows partition using GParted.
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How do I resize my ext4 partition and add the free size to an NTFS one?
I have a 500GB HDD with the following partitions. From Windows 7 I cannot resize the sda6 (ext4) partition. I want to make it about 100GB and the free size to add to the sda7 (NTFS) partition.
Can ...
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Inconsistency with Debian filesystem, shows no free space even when I have 145 GB space free
I have a 200+GB HDD. I have set up Debian Squeeze 6 in following manner:
I have been seeing an error message saying I have run out of disk space. I used disk usage analyzer and I found that out of ...
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Problem with formating an unformatted partition
I'd like to format my black unformatted partition into another NTFS-partition, but it seems like it's not possible format it as I'd like to.
If I use diskmgmt.msc, it says: will be formatted into ...
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cannot add unallocated space to extended partition using gparted
Okay, I installed Ubuntu a while back and realized I needed more storage space so I shrunk the size of my Windows partition but I am unable to expand the Ubuntu partition. I've read several similar ...
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GParted stop after next operation
I was messing around with my drive trying some different arrangements of partition to get another one inside. overall the result doesn't differ much from the original but while messing with it I done ...
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GParted detects two partitions of 'unknown' file system
I'm copying the files from a windows machine for a friend. He had two HDDs, one was the primary HD that he booted windows from and the other had two partitions in it that are full of data.
He is not ...
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How to mount a disk with data (a deleted partition table) from gpart and testdisk
I am trying to recover the ext4 partition table of a 2TB disk, where I have 900.000 files. I have cloned the original HD and now I am working on the cloned HD. And I am running Parted Magic Live CD.
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Installing Windows 7 from a USB Hard Drive
I have a Western Digital Passport External Hard Drive (320GB) that I want to partition to keep the data on, but use some of the free space to install Windows 7 onto my desktop computer. Microsoft has ...
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Resize a partition image with GParted?
I've resized partitions in GParted before. Now I'd like to move a large but mostly empty partition to a smaller drive. Instead of resizing it in place, I'd prefer to make a copy on a 3rd drive ...
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Playing with/editing partition table
While playing with GParted my partition table was damaged in the sense that an extended partition ended after the end of disk.
To fix it I used TestDisk to backup the current partition table and ...
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Anyone have any problems with Gparted (open source partition editor) on Windows? I.e., Is it SAFE?
I need to repartition a HD in Windows 7 (delete a partition and then expand an adjacent partition).
I'm happy to buy software but free is always nice. I see gParted comes recommended but just wanted ...
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GParted errors on MBR Disk, Claims it's GPT. (It's mistaken, but why?)
It's very tempting for me to go on a rant here about GParted and Linux, but I'll do my best to avoid it. :)
Question:
Why does GParted claim that my disk is corrupted and GPT, whereas the Disk ...
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Gparted can't see partitions on an Acer Extensa 5420 laptop
I tried to install Ubuntu on my Acer Extensa 5420 laptop. At the point where Gparted should allow me to select partitions I could not see my Windows partitions with Vista and XP installed on them. It ...
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Moving a LVM/LUKS encrypted partition to the end of a harddrive?
I need to move a LUKS encrypted partition to the end of a harddrive to expand another partition.
Does anyone know how to do this?
Is it possible to do this with other partition editing programs?
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Gparted error “can't have overlapping partitions”?
I ran an old version of the windows fdisk tool on a drive with 4 partitions (the 4th one was just unpartitioned space). I used it to format the last partition into FAT32 and then set that partition to ...
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How did I end up with a partition inside a partition?
I used to have Vista installed, but wanted to upgrade to 7. I partitioned my drive, installed 7 on the new partition then copied all my data over from the Vista partition. Then, I went to remove the ...
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Multiple partitions for an external USB hard drive used by Linux and Windows
I want to split a large external USB hard drive into at least 2 partitions.
I've heard that multiple partitions on a USB drive involves problems not associated with partitioning a regular IDE/SATA ...
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Triple partitioning and using GParted to configure partitions before installing any OS
I think I'm going to give another go at the triple partition (XP/ 7/ Ubuntu 10.04). I was thinking, is the following method a good way to configure the partitions:
-Boot with GParted
-Use GParted ...
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Able to re-install Ubuntu 10.04 after recent install?
I just performed a triple partition involving Windows XP, Windows 7, and Ubuntu 10.04. I installed them in that order. However, I now realize that I would like to boot using Windows Boot Manager so I ...
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GParted failing to shrink hfs+ partition; Mac OSX disk utility reporting no space left
I'm trying to make a spot for Ubuntu on my external drive from which I boot my mac. Right now, the drive has only one partition, an hfs+ partition that stores Mac OS X.
I'm using gparted to modify ...
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After upgrading to Ubuntu 10.04, I've lost my Windows Vista boot option; GParted showing NO partitions
I have a Dell Inspiron 1525, on which I had previously had a dual-boot Ubuntu 9.10 / Windows Vista set-up (plus some other nonsense that came factor-installed).
There are some similar questions to ...
