Parted Magic

Parted Magic contains GParted, which may be used for partitioning, and other useful tools.

It can be run from a CD or USB drive.

Be Aware: Older computers may not be able to start an operating system on a USB drive.

The Parted Magic website is

http://partedmagic.com/doku.php

Parted Magic can be downloaded from

http://sourceforge.net/projects/partedmagic/files/partedmagic/

http://digitalincursion.net/parted-magic/

http://exo.enarel.eu/mirror/partedmagic/

The Parted Magic iso can be written to a CD.

UNetbootin may be used to to install Parted Magic on a USB drive. UNetbootin may be downloaded from

http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/

Parted Magic is useful when you don't have Tiny Core.

However, the same applications can be installed in Tiny Core, and Tiny Core starts quicker than Parted Magic, particularly if you use On Demand. You may want to install Tiny Core on a USB drive with appropriate applications, and use it instead of Parted Magic.

This should not normally occur, but I have experienced a situation where I was unable to format a USB drive with FAT32 (after having Ext2 on it) using GParted. Every attempt resulted in errors. I successfully formatted it using Windows.