Error trying to partition external drive

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  1. Falcon9, Aug 17, 2015

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    I have an external 500GB HD that I use as a Time Machine backup for my rMBP. I had partitioned it into 2 a while ago; intending to store large files on the second partition but have now changed my mind. I deleted the second partition and am now trying to re-size the Time Machine partition to the full size of the drive. It works at it for a while and then gives me this error:
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    What can I do to resolve this? Thanks!
     
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  2. Weaselboy, Aug 18, 2015

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    Try gong back to the First Aid tab and doing a repair disk.

    If that does not work, I think the problem is you are using the wrong partitioning scheme there. Normally you would want the OS X default GUID partition table. To fix that you will need to reformat the entire drive.

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