Hi John, On Jan 20, 2008 1:54 AM, John Thompson <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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.. This is my main problem right now: I don't even get to see the device, since USB layer refuses me access to it =( Once I get past this, I'm pretty sure it should be recoverable as "any screwed" SATA HDD is (eg. using fdisk, as you suggested). But thks anyway =) Regards, Andre
