HELP: External 250G USB screwed with GParted

[Aldo Foot]

On Jan 19, 2008 9:56 AM, André Costa <blueser at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi François,
>
> 2008/1/19 François Patte <francois.patte at math-info.univ-paris5.fr>:
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> > 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.
>


Right about now is when I put my gloves on...
How about taking the HDD out of the USB enclosure and attach it directly
to a machine via IDE cable? Then partition or you could try all sorts of
troubleshooting.

This CD has several HDD tools.
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

good luck.



> > 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
>
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