HARDDISK PARTITIONING USING PARTED MAGIC

There are many disk partitioning tools e.g Partition Magic or Paragon Partition Manager but if you are looking for free and gpl licensed software, Parted Magic is your choice.

Parted Magic is a special linux distro for disk management and partitioning. You may download it from here.

There is other Linux disk management and partitioning OS like System Rescue CD or GParted but Parted Magic is more user friendly and easy to use.

After downloading Parted Magic you will get an ISO file and you need to burn the ISO file using CD burning software e.g Nero , Ashampoo Burning Studio or Deepburner or you can make a Live USB Bootdisk using syslinux utility (included in Parted Magic ISO). You can extract the files from ISO file using Winrar or ISOBuster.

Screenshot 01 – Parted Magic Menu

Step-by-step harddisk partitioning using Parted Magic:

Step 1. Set Your First Boot to CD or USB Disk

Set your First Boot from BIOS to CD (if you’re using CD) or USB Disk (if you’re using Live USB Bootdisk).

Step 2. Parted Magic Startup Menu

Select “Default settings” for running Parted Magic on RAM/Ejects CD or select “Do not eject CD” if you don’t want to remove the CD when Parted Magic is running.

Step 3. Parted Magic GUI

Select Gparted from Menu or Parted Magic Desktop for starting the Gparted Partition Manager.

Step 4. Partitioning the Disk

ALERT!! - YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED !!

IT’S RECOMMENDED TO BACKUP YOUR IMPORTANT DATA BEFORE CONTINUING PARTITIONING THE DISK.

Screenshot 02 – Creating New Partition

- Select the disk that you want to be partitioned

- Click New

- Input the new size of the partition.

- Set the partition type (Logical or Primary Partition)

- Set the filesystem (FAT16, FAT32 or NTFS)

- Enter the label for the partition (optional)

- Click Add

- Follow the instruction above for remaining space of the harddisk

Notes: You have to make an Extended Partition if you want to make a Logical Partition.

Step 5. Executing Pending Operations

Screenshot 03 – Applying Pending Operations

- There will be pending operations on the bottom of the parted window. If you are ready to partition the disk, right click on the pending operations and click Apply All Operations.

Step 6. Finishing

- Make sure that every partition has been created successfully.

Screenshot 04 – List of Completed Operations

- Click close to close the notification window.

STOP PRESS

Extra Notes:

If you just want to resize or convert the existing partition on your harddisk, right click on the partition that you want to edit then click Resize/Move to resize/move your existing partition or click Format to to convert your partition to other filesystem. Just make sure that you backup your important data before doing this. Nobody knows if something bad happened to your data right? :p

Screenshot 05 – Resizing/Moving Existing Partition

Okay, that’s all for now. I hope this “short” explanation will be helpful for you. Don’t forget to leave comment okay? ^_^

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