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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows XP, Windows 2000
- Date added: June 14, 2007
- Total Downloads: 36,243
- Downloads last week: 447
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 15 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
This heavy-duty partition tool isn't for novices or the faint of heart, but experienced users will find this tool invaluable. This ISO file is a suite of applications you burn to disk and use to boot your system. The program uses a mixture of command line menus and GUI-based applications. No matter your experience level, we recommend finding and studying the online documentation. This isn't the kind of program where most users should try and wing it.
At boot, you choose from a selection of options to run GParted or boot from other partitions. You may need to choose one of the special options depending on your hardware. GParted itself is a complex collection of menus and functions to perform almost any partition function. The program is part of a simple GUI. You can easily check, create, copy, resize, remove, or delete partitions on most hard-drive models. You can easily destroy your operating system, so deliberation is the key to safety. The documentation presents the easiest method to each task. Most are accomplished in a few easy steps.
As with any program this complex, your experience depends on your knowledge and hardware. Some users will find GParted works perfectly and easily, and others will give up after the first attempt. We recommend this very useful freeware tool for experienced users.
Publisher's description
From Chi3 Hacklab :The power and simplicity of GParted on a biz-card size LiveCD. The CD aims to be fast, small in size (~50mb), and use minimal resources to get that disk partitioned the way you want it. GParted LiveCD uses Xorg, the lightweight Fluxbox window manager, and the latest 2.6 Linux Kernel. Being up to date is important! GParted LiveCD will be updated along side the GParted source releases and have minor releases when bugs are fixed or new filesystem tools become available. The CD also offers the following programs: parted and fdisk vi, ntfs-3g, partimage, testdisk, Terminal and Midnight Commander. And also tool to make screenshots.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 4.1 stars out of 15 votes
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: GParted LiveCD 0.3.4-7
Pros: The new version(s) is/are available since some-time-ago!.. Download.com is often, lately, behind on updates; Don't know why this is happening :f Check out version 0.3.6.x and test version 0.3.7.x @ their site ( gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php ).
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: GParted LiveCD 0.3.4-7
Pros: Booting into Linux may sound complicated, but it isn't. They've taken care of all the tricky stuff for you, so you just burn a CD, boot to it, answer two questions and you're ready to go.
I was able to easily split my 300G NTFS partition into a 200G NTFS + 100G FAT32.
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: GParted LiveCD 0.3.4-7
"long file to download, but at least free and works"
Pros: I tried before Partition logic which didn't work for me, because I've
1. a SATA 500GB HDD (unrecognised by partition logic) and
2. a Japanese 106key USB keyboard (not at all supported in partition logic)
After reading comments about other partition software someone stated this one as stable and good. This is how I came to this software.
So I booted the newly written CD-R and was prompted first to select language and keyboard layout. The look and feel of the partition software was "Partition Magic" like. I indicated intuitively my desired changes and clicked on apply. The progress screen showed me very detailed what it was doing at every moment, how much time it will last till it's over and so on. Even Partition Magic isn't as detailed as this software.
Summarizing it did what it should do without mistakes, and this for free. Worth the download.
Cons: Big file to download, it's a whole working Linux environment.
It would be good to have in-program help, stating for example what the "copy partition to another partition" does. My source partition was NTFS, destination partition was FAT32, after copying the destination partition became NTFS. Where from should I know that it becomes NTFS...
The "time left until done" isn't sometimes accurate, it indicated 10 hours and the job was over in 3 hours.
I can't compare the speed with other partition software, but my feeling tells me, that it's not better than other software. Maybe it's because it makes first a simulation test in some jobs. Just a guess.
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: GParted LiveCD 0.3.4-7
"Resized And Moved My Partitions with Ease"
Pros: When installing a Linux distro I chose to give Linux a larger part of my drive than Windows accidentally. GParted quickly fixed my problem. I made many changes and GParted LiveCD succeeded without error.
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2 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Version: GParted LiveCD 0.3.4-7
"Couldn't get past select Keymodes"
Cons: Would hang at the select Keymodes screen... get what you pay for I guess, and since this is free, you get nothing but a wasted CD, luckily it was RW
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