Help! Partition Failed! I wanted to repartition my backup drive…

[tompatrick]

GeneL wrote:
…using Disk Utility, but it didn't work.


Then I tried to erase the drive, but same thing.

I checked the drive using DU's "Verify Disk and it was shown as OK.


I want to use this drive for my backup. It's been working fine for quite a while, but something is wrong and I don't know how to fix it,

Can anyone suggest what I need to do to either erase or partition this drive, so that I can start over?

Try to repartition the drive using a non-apple partition utility.