Computing – (1) Preparing Bootable Partition Manager USB Drive (GParted Live)

Computing - (1) Preparing A Bootable Partition Manager USB Drive (GParted Live)
Seldom, but surely, at times, any computer user may well feel the need to clear up all the currently existing hard disk partitions and regenerate them from scratch for a fresh new start.

So this article is all about preparing the tool for such tasks, ie, preparing a bootable USB drive for disk partitioning tasks, which could deal with both GPT and MBR partition schemes. Actually MBR partitions tend to be deprecated gradually because usual hard disk size increases as time goes by.

Anyway, there are various ways to accomplish this, but here does the author describe a method using Rufus on Windows for simplicity' s sake.

Prerequisites :
    <- 1 Giga-byte USB Memory Stick.

  1. USB Memory Stick (more than 1 Giga byte)
  2. GParted Live ISO Image (gparted-live-0.33.0-2-amd64.iso) from GPated Download Page
  3. Rufus v3.5 Portable with Linux support files. Rufus homepage >> here



Specifics :

  1. Connect the USB drive to the PC.
  2. Run Rufus.exe then check and choose the now connected target USB drive.
  3. Click [SELECT] Button to choose the downloaded GParted live image.

  4. As it should work with old BIOS-based systems as well as more recent EFI's, choose MBR from the [Partition scheme] field. Then the [Target system] is chosen accordingly as [BIOS or UEFI].

  5. Click [START] button to proceed and wait for few minutes for the task to be completed.

  6. A message box pops up. Choose [Write in ISO Image mode (Recommended)].

  7. Click [OK] to proceed when another message box showing typical warning message appears.

  8. Wait for the job to be rounded up.
     ->  -> 

  9. Click [CLOSE] to finish it up when [READY] message appears as shown below:

    The content of the USB drive is as follows after all:

  10. Now reboot PC to boot from the USB.
    Clicking [F12] on boot screen brings up the following list of drives to boot from, in case of Gigabyte main board.

    There are two available choices for the GParted USB as shown above :

    • [BMKT MemoRive PMAP] is for legacy BIOS boot up
    • [UEFI: BMKT MemoRive PMAP] is for UEFI boot up

Job Done !
Enjoy using it!

Next : Partitioning a 1 TB hard disk with the GParted USB drive for dual booting Lubuntu and Windows.

EOD

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