GParted is a free disk partitioning tool that runs from outside of the operating system, meaning that you don’t need an OS installed to use it, nor will you ever have to reboot to apply any changes.
Among other things, you can delete, format, resize, copy, and hide any partition recognized by GParted.
GParted Pros & Cons There’s very little to dislike about the GParted disk management tool:
More About GParted Data on one partition can be copied to any other partition, even one on a different physical drive Resizing a partition is simple with GParted because you can either resize it by sliding the space left and right for a smaller or larger partition or simply enter the size in manually Supports formatting to lots of different file systems, including common ones like NTFS, FAT, EXT, and HFS, but also less common ones like XFS, F2FS, BTRFS, JFS, Reiser4, and NILFS2 Lets you change the volume label Can create a new partition table; options include: aix, amiga, bsd, dvh, gpt, mac, msdos, pc98, sun, and loop You can manage the flag for a device, with these options: boot, diag, esp, hidden, irst, lba, lvm, palo, prep, and raid Drive error checking is supported A data recovery option can attempt to recover files by letting you copy them to other media On the main menu, when you first boot to GParted, there’s an option to run a free memory test with the included MemTest86+ tool How to Install GParted GParted must be properly extracted to a disc or a flash drive before you can use it....