[wplug] Gparted destroyed my new WD Passport
Eli Heady
eli.heady at gmail.com
Thu Mar 1 11:15:47 EST 2007
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
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