1 Topic by dsmith (edited by dsmith 2009-03-23 01:14:19)

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Topic: [Resolved] Booting gparted

I downloaded the latest stable version of gparted live (0.4.3.2) and burned the image to a cd.  When I booted from that cd it went through several loading lines,  I didn't look at them to closely so I don't remember what all they said, but it never brought up the interface.  All it ever ended up with was a DOS command line for the a drive (which I don't have one of).  I have one hard drive partitioned into a c drive and an e drive.  The cd ROM is d.  I tried using 'gparted' as a command with all the drive letters I could come up with but nothing happened.  Any suggestions or ideas?

2 Reply by cmdr (edited by cmdr 2009-03-20 23:52:15)

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Re: [Resolved] Booting gparted

Hello dsmith,

dsmith wrote:

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All it ever ended up with was a DOS command line for the a drive (which I don't have one of).
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well, I can explain, what happened to you.

You selected "Create a bootable CD" with your burning software and used a floppy bootimage as boot device ( therefore drive A: at a DOS prompt ). This is not correct. It's not quite clear, whether you downloaded the "GParted" ZIP-File or the ISO-File. You should have downloaded this ISO-File. The ISO-File contains a sector-per-sector copy of a CD-ROM. Your burning software has a separate task to burn ISO-Files (it's not "Burning a data CD"). It doesn't matter, what these files really contain; CD-ROM is bootable, if the image has the ability. It's not your task to make it bootable. Just put a blank CD-ROM to your drive, select the ISO-File and start burning.

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Re: [Resolved] Booting gparted

That was it.  I guess I somehow got a odd download.  I think Nero also confused me.  In the options to burn different types of CD's it gives you an option for a data CD, a music CD, what it calls a bootable CD (what I originally chose) and if you scroll over one screen it gives you the option to burn an .iso image.  Everything now works and I was able to do exactly what I wanted to do.  Wheee!!

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Re: [Resolved] Booting gparted

The right option to burn the cd is Image or ISO or ISO image in various burning programs.
However, I'd like to suggest taking backup before any partitioning operation. smile

*** It is highly recommended to backup any important files before doing resize/move operations. ***