After further investigation into this problem, I used the USB Startup Disk Creator on my laptop running Karmic to make another usb Lucid drive. This booted up fine and I was able to run gparted without errors.
After further investigation into this problem, I used the USB Startup Disk Creator on my laptop running Karmic to make another usb Lucid drive. This booted up fine and I was able to run gparted without errors.