Using Gparted to restore an outboard USB drive -- how long should this take?

[C Hamel]

On Monday 15 May 2006 14:47, Peter N. Spotts wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I'm using a Maxtor 300gb outboard USB hard drive with Ubuntu 5.10
> installed on a Toshiba Satellite 1905-S303 laptop. Somehow, the
> Maxtor's partition table got bollixed up, and how I'm trying to
> repartition it (fortunately, little data stored there). Gparted saw it
> and assigned it sda1, but it shows the drive as having an unknown file
> system, even though it originally was linux native. So I've got it
> setting up the entire drive as a single ext3 partion. But it's taking
> forever to execute the repartitioning process (with no activity showing
> up on Gkrellm's monitor for sda1). Interestingly, fdisk also sees the
> drive as sda1, and with a linux partition, so I suppose something is
> happening. How long should it take to complete this partitioning process
> on a 2.4 GHz machine?
>
> With best regards,
>
> Pete
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I'm only guessing, of course, but it seems there may be a prob w/the hardware.  
I used to own a Toshiba Satellite 2100CDT & the HD on that was reported as 
hda, not sda, for one thing.  For another, my 2.66ghz box partitioned a 60GB 
drive in just a few seconds (via PQM from XP), b-4 I decided to make it a 
single-boot box.

Perhaps a little more info might help...?

FWIW...
-- 
	...CH
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