Hi François, 2008/1/19 François Patte <francois.patte@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > André Costa a écrit : > > Any > > advice will be welcome. > > > > Change the usb cable. > > I had a lot of error like this with a bad cable: > > device descriptor read/64, error -71 But, given that it was working with this same cable and it stopped working in the middle of a GParted session, I'm not sure it will work (it's the cable that came with the device), but... as I said, I gotta try everything. > Don't know why you use gparted to format an external HD... I didn't want to use GParted to format the drive, just to repartition it (after all, this is GParted's purpose, isn't it?). I was going to format the partitions (NTFS, HFS) on WinXP/OSX respectively. Thks anyway for the suggestion, if nothing else works I will try changing the cable. I still hope some other ideas will popup -- I still can't see what I've done wrong that could have caused this, there should be a way out. Regards, Andre
