Partitioning and Formatting drives The easy way, using Knoppix live CD By Carl Weisheit.

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Partitioning and Formatting drives The easy way, using Knoppix live CD By Carl Weisheit

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Partitioning and Formatting drives

The easy way, using Knoppix live CD

By Carl Weisheit

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Why use a Live CD to partition or format drives?

GParted is a full featured program with an easy to use Graphical interface.

CFDISK is a text based program for very old and slow systems that can’t support a GUI.

Both FREE programs can format in many file systems including NTFS.

These Utilities are found on many Live Distros, such as KNOPPIX, UBUNTU, etc.

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Partitioning and Formatting drives

Part 1: GPARTED

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Boot up normally with Knoppix CDand start the Root Shell

Select root shell from penguin menu.The root terminal will open.Type GPARTED and hit enter.

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This is GPARTED

Select run

This tab selects from multiple drives on system

Graphical representation of partitions

Partition list

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For detailed drive info

Select this tab

To get additional drive info

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To see a list of thechanges you are creating

Select this tabTo open a window that will list the changes you

will be making

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Basic functions are accessed at the top menu, the icons or right clicking

on a partition or drive space for a submenu

Menu items

icons

Right click here for

submenu

Right click here for

submenusubmenu

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Selecting “new” from the submenu will allow you to create a new primary, or

logical partition

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Choose a file system and partition size and select ADD

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We have created some partitions and are ready to apply them

List of changes to be applied

New partitions created

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Select APPLY and you will get the “are you sure?” box

Apply icon

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Select APPLY and GPARTED will make the changes permanent!

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Partitioning and Formatting drives

Part 2: CFDISK

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type knoppix 2 at the boot prompt to boot up in text mode

Boot prompt for special boot options

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Type CFDISK at the prompt and the program will begin

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This is CFDISK

select commands by left and right arrow keys and hit enter

Select partitions by using up and down

arrow keys

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Summary of available commands [ help ] print help screen [ new ] create new partition from free space [ delete ] delete selected partition [ print ] print partition table to screen or a file [ units ] select unit size (MB, sect, cyl) [ write ] write partition table to disk [ bootable ] toggle bootable flag on selected partition [ type ] change filesystem (fat, ntfs, ext3 and more) [ quit ] quit program [ maximize ] maximize disk usage (experts only)

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Lets create a partition:select a free space and [new]

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Choose primary or logical

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Select the size of the partition

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Choose your file system

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This is the first page of file systems available!

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This is the second page of file systems available!

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You can make thepartition bootable

Boot flag indicator

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Select [write] to make changes permanent

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type yes to the“are you sure?”

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Select [quit] and then shutdown

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