Tools to partition dynamic disk

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Hi,

I have a 1 TB hard-disk with windows 7 pre-installed. I would like to delete, resize some partition and create ext3/swap partitions to install linux.

Which tools are available for this ?

I tried gparted, it doesn't work.

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