[wplug] Gparted destroyed my new WD Passport

[Eli Heady]

On Thursday 01 March 2007 11:00, scoob8000 wrote:
> 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

You probably don't need to zero the whole drive (maybe others have opinions 
about leaving filesystem remnants, tho):

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/(Your WD USB drive) bs=1M count=1

will zero only the first 1024K and the partition table within.

-eli