[wplug] Gparted destroyed my new WD Passport

[Scott F. Kiesling]

Tried that, same result as gparted run without the livecd.

Running dd just locked the computer up after a few hours.
I'm gonna send the drive back; it doesn't seem like a good
drive should do this.

Thanks for everyone's help.

SFK

On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 02:15:00PM -0500, Ryan Moszynski wrote:
> From: Ryan Moszynski <ryan.m.lists at gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 14:15:00 -0500
> To: wplug at wplug.org
> Subject: Re: [wplug] Gparted destroyed my new WD Passport
> 
> so, i'm wondering if parted actually "destroyed" your hd.  If your
> kernel is <2.6.18, it may have just not done anything to the drive at
> all.  I ran into this problem with an external drive of my own.
> Apparently the usb stack got a big update in .18.
> 
> If you haven't already, i would try the gparted live cd:
> 
> http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php
> 
> (it's a 30mb dl, and it comes with a newer kernel)
> and see if you're still having problems.
> 
> ryan
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