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Root GPartition - Well stumped

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turbohobbit

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Guys, those who have been watching the GV 1.5 thread will know that I've got a dying SD card and I'm trying to repartition it using GPartition.

I've downloaded it (0.8.0-3.iso) from the internet and burnt it to a bootable CD. I start my PC up with the CD in, the GP menu pops up but nothing works - my keyboard is frozen so I can't make any choices such as "start default GPartition". The clock just counts down and when it gets to 0 I see a shedload of code passing up the scree for a couple of minutes. Occasionally I'm asked to make decisions such as the language I want to work in and to I want to remap my keyboard (!) - which don't work - and in the end I see a corrupted (stripey) version of my desktop. I think have to force shutdown of the PC and then restart, whipping the CD out of the drive before it tries and reboots from there again.

I think I've downloaded it ok as it boots to the GP start screen and I ran an MD5 check with reads ok. If the keyboard wasn't locked at the start screen I think I'd be in business, but as it is I can't to a thing with it.

Any advice?

Cheers muchly!
 
Turbohobbit please don't use minitool. It's awful.

Sounds like the ISO has corruption within it. Maybe you can download an older one?
 
snakeeyes21 said:
an easier tool to use is mini tool partition wizard
Best Free Partition Manager Freeware for Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP 32 bit & 64 bit. MiniTool Free Partition Manager Software Home Edition.

runs from windows so no having to boot in to it.

just go to recovery on your phone and mount the sd card to see all your partitions
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No just NO

if i could i would ban that program from being posted on any android forums
ask SURoot about it

its nothing but dirt
 
turbo the one you downloaded is a test release and not a stable release

also make sure in bios you have set to alow legacy keyboard support

EDIT: Fck you susan you biatch
 
LOL!

Ok guys, many thanks. I'll download an older version and try again. I presume I make changes in the BIOS before the computer boots up. I've tried this before and it's kinda dodgy (from memory the keyboard doesn't kick in until Windows 7 boots up). That said, I'll give it another go. Any ideas if I can't access BIOS? Or is that it?
 
Nope, not wireless, USB into the back of the box. Tried hitting Esc, F2, F10, the lot. No dice. Not a flicker of Bios setup. I'd better hope the keyboard driver is running within BIOS or I'm stuffed I think. I'm all out of CDs now so I'll try again tomorrow with the new GPartition...
 
Have you got definitely a ps2 input?

You could run it in a virtually machine like vmplayer or ms virtual pc
 
I had a similar problem with gparted, so I downloaded again and burnt it at the the slowest speed possible, x8 I think, md5 was right and this time it worked, don't know if it will help you but worth a shot. I also tried virtual box which is good even if it just let's you know if you downloaded a good copy.
 
EddyOS said:
For reference, get VMWare or VirtualBox and install Ubuntu - keep it about for anything Windows doesn't do properly
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But ill just add if you only want to use it do run gparted you don't need to install ubuntu, when it asks for OS just click the gparted ISO and it should just run it straight off that.
 
No, but as it's part of Ubuntu you might as well install it all. Makes re-rooting easier and also means you can dabble with the kitchen to make your own ROMs
 
Right. I've got GP working, I've completely reformatted my SD card (thought I may as well), I've made the "unknown" 488Mb section of my SD card Ext3 again via GP, and I've copied all teh files back to teh card. Christ knows if I've done it properly and if it'll work, but what the hell. I'll let you know!
 
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