[wplug] Gparted destroyed my new WD Passport

[scoob8000]

That's odd.  I've used gparted to resize a few winders partitions.  Unless
the drive mis-reported it's cylinders or something maybe..

Maybe try wiping it clean (dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda) and recreate the
partition..

-Mike

On 3/1/07, Scott F. Kiesling <kiesling at pitt.edu> wrote:
>
> 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
>
>
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