That's odd. I've used gparted to resize a few winders partitions. Unless the drive mis-reported it's cylinders or something maybe..<br><br>Maybe try wiping it clean (dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda) and recreate the partition..
<br><br>-Mike<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/1/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Scott F. Kiesling</b> <<a href="mailto:kiesling@pitt.edu">kiesling@pitt.edu</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi all-<br><br>Just got this new 60Gb external HD (very sexy-small, sleek<br>black).<br><br>I thought I would try out gparted, I usually use fdisk.<br><br>It comes with a big FAT32 partition. I had gparted shrink it<br>to about 10G. This did not work, and now I cannot get the
<br>partition tools to work. They see the hard drive, but I get<br>this error (yes I am root):<br><br>miles# cfdisk /dev/sda<br><br>(BLANK TERMINAL SCREEN)<br><br>FATAL ERROR: Cannot read disk drive<br>Press any key to exit cfdisk
<br><br>I'd appreciate any ideas for tools for getting this thing<br>back. I'm not worried out data, since there wasn't any (I<br>didn't need the windows sync and google search that was<br>pre-installed).<br>
<br>Oh, I was able to mount the disk before I ran gparted (yes I<br>unmounted).<br><br>Thanks-<br>Scott<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>wplug mailing list<br><a href="mailto:wplug@wplug.org">
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