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GNOME's disk partition editor

gparted is 's tool for disks. It can create, delete, resize, move, copy, format, and check partitions with most common file systems.

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How do I move this unallocated space to the beginning of the disk?

I need to move a 420GB unallocated space, buried in an extended partition, to the beginning of the disk. Is there a way to do this using GParted? Here is the current 'fdisk -l' snapshot: Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes 255 heads, 63…
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how to merge partition with gparted?

I want to merge 2 partitions. Here's a screenshot: The black circle is an unallocated partition, and the red circle is root partition. how to merge it? Help, please. I'm working at the ubuntu.
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partitioning netbook without DVD drive using gparted

HP Netbook Mini 210 F14 xfce I installed F14 xfce and using the entire disk. Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda2 97G 4.0G 92G 5% / tmpfs 494M 212K 494M 1% /dev/shm /dev/sda1 …
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Unable to resize system partition using GParted

I have Windows 10 systems installed on 60GB SSD. There is Reboot Restore installed. I'm unable to update Windows. Too small disc. I tried with an external disc, but it looks like Windows don't know about external disc space while rebooting (weird).…
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gParted > FAT32 formatted USB is not recognized in Windows 10

I've tried several times now. I format a 120GB USB3.0 drive as FAT32 using gParted in Ubuntu(from a live USB) then when I try and mount in Windows 10 it doesn't mount. I then open Disk Management and have no option but to reformat the RAW partition…
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How can I view the contents of each partition in GParted?

In GParted, I'm trying to remove a partition that I'm not using (to make space for another operating system). The partition to remove is either dev/dev6 or dev/dev7. How can I view the contents of either partition (to make sure that I'm not…
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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 to delete all partitions on the hard drive -Use…
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GParted - Shrink progress bar shows ~100% for hours - cancel or not?

I have used GParted live to shrink my Windows partition from 530 to 430 GB. The disk is largely defragmented and only 66 GB are used. Since almost 6 hours now the shrink progress bar shows what looks like 100% (took maybe 5 minutes to get there)…
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Can't access logically partitioned HDD

I am not able to access my whole HDD. I use only 31GB of 160GB. GParted shows me my disk and the partitions but I am not able to mount it. It shows me following: Please help me. How can I recover my HDD?
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Resize hard disk partition to fill empty space

I'm trying to resize a partition (using GParted) so that the first partition (in yellow) will fill the empty space (in gray). Using GParted, is it possible to resize a partition in order to fill all the unallocated space on the hard disk? I haven't…
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Can I cancel a resize operation in GParted without causing data loss?

I'm currently waiting for GParted to finish resizing a partition, but the progress bar is currently at 0, and it's been taking much longer than usual (perhaps an hour). Is it safe to cancel the resize operation? I don't want to wait days for the…
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Cloned partition not booting

I used gparted to clone a Windows XP boot partition from one hard disk to another (using the copy and paste function). However, the new drive does not boot. How can clone a bootable drive and verify that the MBR has been correctly cloned?
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gparted mounting partitions on its own?

I have a usb drive which I use for backup, and I had to grow a partition which is mounted on boot with its proper line in /etc/fstab. Launching gparted, a first issue I had was that I coudn't umount the partition from gparted: trying to do it, I…
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