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    Alternative to GParted?

    Anyone know of any other free partition editors that work as well as GParted?

    I need to create a new partition on my parents PC and sadly it's a HP Pavilion, and I don't wanna risk killing the graphics inside (although I swear they are onboard and therefore won't be affected...). Read through all of the bug report and it seems to only happen to HP Pavilions that have a dedicated graphics card, and I'm pretty certain my parents' PC doesn't.

    Is it worth taking the risk or finding an alternative as per the title?

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    Re: Alternative to GParted?

    I've never heard of a partitioning tool harming a GPU in any way - I can't see how it could TBH. If you are concerned, you could install the drive in another PC to edit the partitions.
    May I ask what exactly the problem is meant to be?

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    Re: Alternative to GParted?

    http://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php
    ///WARNING/// Due to a hardware/firmware bug, it's _NOT_ recommended to run GParted live on some types of HP Pavilion machines. Otherwise your VGA card fan might be dead. For more info, please refer to this bug report.
    Don't quite understand it myself, but it's been confirmed by many people. Something to do with the drivers not handling the GPU's correctly and making the fan spin at full speed continously which causes it to wear down and break. I would've thought this would take some time to happen as fans are surely designed to spin at max speed for a long time... But when the developers of GParted recommend not using it on HP Pavilions, I would've thought they wouldn't say it unless there was sometruth behind it.

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    Re: Alternative to GParted?

    I must say I've heard nothing like it before. I'm pretty sure GPU fans are designed to run at 100% all the time and certainly without breaking in a matter of minutes. Also I doubt incorrect resolutions are a problem as a GPU won't output anything it doesn't support and modern monitors won't display anything out of range to prevent damage.
    However, I'm assuming he used a bootable tool like Parted Magic so I suppose you could try booting from an Ubuntu live cd as it contains GParted (simply called partition manager). But as you say, I doubt the developers would advise against it if there was no truth behind it so it might be best to play it safe - do you have another computer you could use to do the partitioning on? Failing that you could try another partitioning tool but I wouldn't know what to recommend, sorry.

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    Re: Alternative to GParted?

    It wouldn't be gparted itself, perhaps the livecd they distribute has a buggy kernel or x.org. Try another livecd like a recent systemrescuecd, it has gparted on it.
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    Re: Alternative to GParted?

    I've been using Easus for partitions and cloning, free from Softpedia or:

    http://www.partition-tool.com/
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    Re: Alternative to GParted?

    Forgot to update, used Gparted and it worked fine in the end.

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    Re: Alternative to GParted?

    Good. I use PartedMagic for setting up a drive for trying distros and nLited XP - seems quicker than Easus, but not sure that I'd use it on a working setup.
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    Re: Alternative to GParted?

    Quote Originally Posted by Allen View Post
    Anyone know of any other free partition editors that work as well as GParted?

    I need to create a new partition on my parents PC and sadly it's a HP Pavilion, and I don't wanna risk killing the graphics inside (although I swear they are onboard and therefore won't be affected...). Read through all of the bug report and it seems to only happen to HP Pavilions that have a dedicated graphics card, and I'm pretty certain my parents' PC doesn't.

    Is it worth taking the risk or finding an alternative as per the title?
    FIPS (if it still exists) used to be pretty good... you could also just get a Linux boot CD and use FDISK.

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