Unfortunately, the GParted FAQ ( ) spells dire warnings of Windows will not boot after resize/move operations and will need to be fixed I'm sure that it is possible.Īlthough I have used GParted (< v1) before, and successfully used the graphical environment, I have never run into problems of a Windows (XP or 7 Pro) not booting after the resize/move operations. Required) since Sys rescue CD works with OpenGL 1.4.

Would appreciate it if someone could help me with Gparted 1.2.1 or 1.3.1 (i686 or amd64) Live CD boot options to get to work with my computer (regardless of OpenGL version I resized my Windows 7 Pro (ntfs) partition (not the Boot partition) successfully! The version of GParted on the Sys Rescue CD is 1.3.0. Guess what? Sys Rescue 8.04 i686 has GParted on it and it booted into its graphical environment just fine WITHOUT squealing about OpenGL not being 2.1 or greater. Lying around - I keep it since it has a lot of tools (including Truecrypt 7.1) that I use from time to time. Unfortunately, on my computer, I cannot upgrade to OpenGL 2.1 or greater as Intel has stopped production/development of drivers for the G35 series.Īfter searching (fruitlessly) for a list of CLI options to start the GParted graphical environment, I turned to System Rescue Disc (v8.04 i686 which I had Unfortunately, my computer is old (but I'm perfectly happy with it (I have another exact one with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS installed) and it runs perfectly! UNTIL I chose to enter the command line and use the old 'startx' command which finally gave me a clue as to why the X server aborts: I need OpenGL 2.1 (see screenshot attached). Reading through the Gparted online manual does not give me a clue on any boot options that could start GParted in a graphical environment GParted (both versions and flavors) exhibits the same behavior when I use the First (default) Boot Menu option or use the RAM (copy to RAM) option on the Boot menu. GParted also hangs if use the option 1 to start GParted manually with 'Forcevideo' (see screenshot attached) regardless of using options like GParted hangs when I try to use to use Option 1 - start X to use GParted automatically (see attached screenshot) Versions of GParted tried: 1.2.1 and 1.3.1 (both i686 and amd64) Live CD. Computer: Dell Optiplex 755 SFF, with one SATA 500 Gb HD, with only Windows 7 Pro installed, CPU Intel Core2 Duo 3.00 GHz, 8 Gb memory.

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