Gparted can be installed and booted from a thumbdrive.
D\L the .iso from
Browse GParted Files on SourceForge.net D\L the Gparted-live-0.5.2-9.iso
Place it somewhere convenient, like the desktop of your netbook.
Then D\L Unetbootin from
UNetbootin - Homepage and Downloads Unetbootin is a tool to create a USB thumb version of gparted from the .iso you downloaded earlier.
Place it on your desktop also.
It is a standalone program.
To use first insert your thumb drive into a USB port and make sure it is formatted Fat 32.
If it is and there is data on it thats ok because creating a USB Gparted wont touch your data.
It must be Fat 32.
Next start unetbootin by clicking the unetbootin.exe.
In the window that opens ignore the first field (distribution) and drop down to the (diskimage) field and click the radio button to select it.
Use the browse button on the far right of this field to browse to your Gparted .iso.
Make sure your USB thumb drive is showing at the field at the bottom (type\drive)
Click OK and wait for unetbootin to do it's thing (a minute or two).
You will now have a live USB of Gparted.
Boot to it to perform partitioning chores.
There is direction on the Gparted web site on hpow to use including screenshots.
Unetbootin can be used to create a USB thumb drive installer for Win 7.
Once you finally get Win 7 installed on your new drive and if interested I can detail how that is accomplished.
It's handy to have a Thumb drive installer for Win 7 because it installs Win 7 in about half the time of the DVD, in case you need to reinstall windows
and you can run the repair stuff from a thumb drive quicker in the event that is needed as well.