Just get the gparted live cd

 

I downloaded the live cd, but now I don't know what I should do.. I burned it into a disc (it shows up as an .iso when you click on the disc, is this normal), but I have PowerISO as an alternative in case. I extracted everything to Linux, but now I just have a folder with stuff inside (and STILL no .deb file)

I'm sorry, but this is all new to me.

 

http://www.wikihow.com/Burn-ISO-Files-to-DVD

important part being "Burn Image to Disc". then you boot from it.

 

Alright, well I got it to a disk and I can boot to gparted, but ONLY in Failsafe mode, the rest seem to just freeze up at a black screen (with a very small underscore at the top right) and do nothing.

Anyways I clicked on the gparted tool and saw my drive, I clicked "new" and it gave me the warning that it would delete everything and format it to mdos (or something), but when I click next the tool just closes. Anything else I can do? Or is my drive just lost forever?

I was going to do a deep scan in some black screen (when you right click and use another tool which looks like a command prompt but with instructions), but it seems like it would take a long time for it to complete, but I just want to make sure that'll do something instead of wasting time that could be used writing a paper I need to finish.

Thanks alot though, I really appreciate it.

 

Next time, download the .deb directly from the repositories using another computer. Then install it using dpkg -i :

e.g.

Code:

sudo dpkg -i /home/user/Desktop/gparted.deb

 

I downloaded almost all of the .deb files but none of them seemed to install except the i368 one which gave me an error in the package installer.

But yeah, thanks for the tip.
Is my HDD screwed?

 

What was the error it gave you? Sounds like some dependency error - in which case you will have to download those as well.

 

I got gparted to install. I opened up the partitioner (which actually works better than the live CD version, probably because I was in failsafe) and clicked on my HDD and clicked new and left the defaults (msdoc). After that I'm nor sure what to do, I tried formatting to fat32, but there seemed to be an error..

create new ext2 file system 00:00:00 ( ERROR )

mkfs.ext2 -L "iPod" /dev/sdb1

mke2fs 1.41.11 (14-Mar-2010)
/dev/sdb1 is mounted; will not make a filesystem here!


and

Device /dev/sdb has a logical sector size of 4096. Not all parts of GNU Parted support this at the moment, and the working code is HIGHLY EXPERIMENTAL.
WARNING: partition(s) 1 on /dev/sdb could not be modified, probably because it/they is/are in use. As a result, the old partition(s) will remain in use until after reboot. You should reboot now before making further changes.

Is there a certain format I should use when formatting this drive?

 

Right click on it and click Unmount before doing all that - Ubuntu (and Mint) will usually automount plugged-in devices for convenience.

Don't forget to ensure that you're using the correct drive as well

If you want to format it to fat32 you (obviously) have to right click on the partition you want to format and select the format menu, and then fat32.