Trying to use Gparted but it doesn’t work

[AlphaRaven]

Whenever I start up GParted through the boot menu off of my USB it doesn’t work and just black screens after I press enter for the first option on Gparted, someone help?

[flusher998]

try to use kde partition manager, it has never failed me

[toidi]

Or gnome-disk-utility ‘disks’, both that and KDE part manager seem to work better for me than gparted.

[retrogunner]

When you start gparted, it scans the block devices buses - which could be tossing your USB bootdrive but I don't recall having that problem however I'm very specific when using it.

Given folks are booting WIndows off of an SD Card, you could probably try that as well if using a standard LiveBoot img other than the recovery image. I suspect it would have same result given the block device scan.

Instead, try:

sudo lsblk # list out all block devices in a tree presentation
# OR
sudo lsblk -o NAME,FSTYPE,SIZE,MOUNTPOINT # even better presentation

sudo parted -l # or whatever to make sure the target & device label is correct (DOS vs GPT)
# you should have seen /dev/nvme0n
sudo gparted /dev/nvme0n # open the specific device without the necessary bus scan
# profit