HELP: External 250G USB screwed with GParted

[Karl Larsen]

Aldo Foot wrote:
> 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 :
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>>>> 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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>
>   
    I have a USB X-835 USB 2.0 Hard Drivekit made by ADS Tecnologies Inc 
but made in China. I have a 15 GB regular IDE hard drive in it and I can 
do anything I want, to the hard drive right thru the USB port.

    Do you for sure have a 2.0 USB in your computer?

Karl