Disk Utility Partition Erased my Hard Drive!

[jadman822]

I was making a partition on my USB external drive in order to put a disk image of Snow Leopard on it, so I could boot off of it.

I added a 10GB partition to the drive, and clicked Apply. The following dialogue box came up:


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Partitioning this disk will change some of the volumes. No volumes will be erased.

This volume will be added:
"Snow Leopard"

This volume will be resized:
"XXX HDD"

Are you sure you wish to partition the disk "WD 3200BMV External Media"?
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""

I clicked Partition, and it finished very quickly. I checked Finder, and the entire drive, BOTH partitions are completely empty. WTF!!!!!

 

[BlueRevolution]

That sucks. Hope you had a backup.

Was there a question there?

 

[jadman822]

The question was basically in the "WTF".

Why did this happen? Did I do something wrong?