On 2008-01-19, André Costa <blueser@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I plugged my brand new WD Passport Drive > [http://www.wdc.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=364] on my F8 > box, and it appeared just fine (I had done this before -- I had even > reformatted the partition with NTFS with Windows XP). I wanted to > remove the single 250G NTFS partition and create two smaller ones, and > reformat them as ext3 and HFS for my girlfriend's MacBook. > > GParted identified the device just fine, and I had just deleted the > original partition and created two smaller ones (110G and 120G), > unformatted. When I hit the "apply changes" button, GParted told me it > could not see the device anymore. Indeed, it couldn't be seen > anywhere. The disk was not mounted anymore, and did not appear as a > device on GNOME's nautilus. What does fdisk say about the device? You can have fdisk write a new, empty partition table to start fresh and then create your new partitions.. -- John (john@xxxxxxxxxxx)
