UEFI Bootable Gparted USB Bootable Drive

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I can't seem to get the latest Gparted to boot on my UEFI laptops. I've tried creating the usb disk via Unetbootin, Lili, Rufus and while it will boot on non-secure laptops, it won't on my URFI enabled ones.

I've been able to successfully boot a UEFI Clonezilla usb disk to my UEFI laptops with the same flash drive and followed the same exact steps with the Gparted iso to no avail. I also made sure to format the usb disk before putting the Gparted image on it.

From what I can tell, the Gparted iso doesn't actually support UEFI booting yet. Can anyone confirm that they've booted Gparted on a secure boot UEFI computer?

Thanks!

Jerome

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So, it turns out I was right. The ISO image on the latest GParted doesn't work properly for UEFI boot by default. I've outlined how to fix it, but it requires a UEFI Clonezilla image.

  • Run Unetbootin.exe as an admin and create the latest version of GParted image on a flash drive per the norm
  • Copy the \boot\ directory from a clonezilla ISO/configured flash drive to the root of the newly created GParted flash drive
  • Copy the following files found in \EFI\boot\ (ignore the x86_64-efi folder) to the same directory on the newly created GParted flsh drive: bootia32.efi bootx64.efi grubx64.efi unicode.pf2

If you get a prompt from UNbootin asking to overwrite the syslinux\menu.c32 file, click No. Or if you get an error when booting from the flash drive regarding the syslinux\menu.c32 file, overwrite that from a clonezilla ISO too.

Your welcome.

Jerome