Guidance for GParted in this scenario

[srajv]

Hi

Iam in a situation where the HDD i bought now has two same version of Ubuntu installed, i needed some guidance to use the GParted from my windows partition and format the HDD (hdc)containing the ubuntu 7.04 (possibly format my disk, removing the old partition), if at all possible.....if i can remove it from the hdc...please lemme know of the proceedure.

I was wondering if i can use GParted from win partition.....pls also
gimme a link where i can download the GParted files.

I want to use Gparted only.

srajv
Beyond fear lies success

[saikee]

An ex-Gparted core maintainer is a member of JustLinux. He has forked his own distro called "Parted Magic" which is in version 1.8.

You can visit Distrowatch.com and search "Parted Magic" to get to download the latest version or simply just Google "Parted Magic" to go to its home site.

Both Parted Magic and Gparted do Live CD now. The version embedded with a distro may be older and less capable, especially for dealing with NTFS partitions.

Gparted has not been maintained as vigorously as Parted Magic which uses the same engine. You will find everything of Gparted in Parted Magic but more.

As the first step I would use the terminal BASH programs cfdisk and fdisk first to understand how the partitioning works because a graphic partitioning tool has the disadvantage of shielding some essential knowledge from the user. As an example partitioning and formatting are two different operations but they are often inseparable in GUI tools.

Partitioning, for both creation and deletion, is a reversible process but formatting is irreversible. The former only affects 16 bytes for each partition in the 4-primary partition table. The latter actually alters the partition itself by creating a filing account system, thereby destroying the existing filing system.

The basic knowledge of partitioning can be learned from fdisk and cfdisk, which are available inside Gparted and Parted Magic.

You can click Windows /my computer/manage/storage/disk management to remove any Linux partition too but would have little idea of which is which because Windows treats all Linux partitions as foreign.

[srajv]

Thanks Saikee

When i did man fdisk ...i found parted was also in there to be utilized....so ubuntu includes parted utility......and i used parted to remove the same OS...

Parted is pretty simple to use....provided u know the commands...
one can find it in GNU official documentation for Parted :

http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/manual/parted.html#check

Happy fiddling
srajv
Beyond fear lies success