External HD problems

[JeffN825]

Right, so I was getting tons of delayed write failures and system freezes immediately thereafter with one of my 4 external HDs (a Lacie 400GB). I read up on the problem and it was suggested I convert the primary partition on the drive to logical. So, I booted up off a PartitionMagic boot disk and told it to convert that partition from primary to logical. It's at 37% and has been stuck there now for about an hour, not moving..............HOWEVER, the activity light on the front of the drive is still constantly blinking...

Ideas? Dare I reset? Leave it for another hour, 2 hours, 12 hours?



NOTE: I HATE partitioning utilities and manual partitioning in general. I have been screwed SO many times.

 

[BigFatCow]

LEAVE IT. Trust me on this, I was using Partition Magic to join 2 partitions and it stopped when it was doing it for a while so i just rebooted, I ended up losing everything on that drive. I was extremely pissed.

I would recommend leaving it for at least over night and if its still stuck when you wake up then possibly consider a reboot, but dont be suprised if you lose your data.

 

[JeffN825]

Sadly, I've had this hapen before as well...

I'll just leave it...

Any comments on the delayed write failure and my solution attempt or whatnot?