GParted Live puts powerful capabilities at the advanced user's fingertips. No excuses!ĭangerous: In inexperienced hands, GParted Live can do serious harm (see above). Consīackup: Take a full backup capable of completely restoring your computer before using GParted Live on your main hard drive. Manuals and more: The GParted home site offers many resources, including installation and usage manuals, lists of available boot parameters, forums, and guides to included graphical and command-line utilities. Instructions for each (and creating GParted apps from scratch, too) are available online.

USB, HDD: GParted Live can be installed and run from a CD or similar optical discs, but it can also run from a USB drive, PXE server, or hard disk (with helper apps). GParted Live's graphical interface makes the process seem more familiar. Powerful: You must boot from a CD or similar source to manage your main drive or other drives Windows needs when running.

You don't need to know Linux to use GParted Live, thanks to its graphical interface, extensive manuals, and the sort of support only available with open-source freeware. It runs at boot, so you must unzip the software's ISO file and burn it to CD (or similar discs) to use it. The existence of a simple workaround really does not excuse bizarre behavior by an important tool of system administration.GParted Live lets Windows users take advantage of the powerful features of the Linux-based GNOME Partition Editor, aka GParted. This appears to be a VirtualBox-specific problem, but given that it's a regression, I think it's safe to call it a bug with the GParted LiveCD, and not VirtualBox. As commented there, this appears to be a regression caused as an unfortunate side effect of the new EFI support ( bug 754587). Thankfully, a workaround was discovered by the folks at that appears to work: set the VirtualBox configuration for the machine to boot with EFI. It also won't respond to signals or interrupts, and the only solution is to forcibly reset/'power down' the VM. Despite leaving it alone for hours, nothing happens, and there's no evidence of any activity. It appears to be trying and somehow failing to start up the GUI. The latest LiveCD begins booting on VirtualBox, but hangs after displaying the Debian licensing/warranty information.

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