[wplug] Gparted destroyed my new WD Passport

[Scott F. Kiesling]

Hi all-

Just got this new 60Gb external HD (very sexy-small, sleek
black). 

I thought I would try out gparted, I usually use fdisk.

It comes with a big FAT32 partition. I had gparted shrink it
to about 10G. This did not work, and now I cannot get the
partition tools to work. They see the hard drive, but I get
this error (yes I am root):

miles# cfdisk /dev/sda

(BLANK TERMINAL SCREEN)

FATAL ERROR: Cannot read disk drive
Press any key to exit cfdisk

I'd appreciate any ideas for tools for getting this thing
back. I'm not worried out data, since there wasn't any (I
didn't need the windows sync and google search that was
pre-installed).

Oh, I was able to mount the disk before I ran gparted (yes I
unmounted).

Thanks-
Scott