External drive partitioning problems

[Reindl Harald]

Am 11.12.2011 19:12, schrieb Robert Moskowitz:
> I just got a LaCie 1Tb USB drive.  I want to delete their 10Mb NTFS 
> partition then create one 1Tb EXT4 partition.
> 
> When I DiskUtility I get the following error when I try to delete the 
> NTFS partition:
> 
> 
> Error erasing: helper exited with exit code 1: In part_del_partition: 
> device_file=/dev/sdb, offset=400886272
> Entering MS-DOS parser (offset=0, size=1000204886016)
> MSDOS_MAGIC found

use fdisk or gparted and create a new partition table



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