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(Get the code!)
Same here.
I have a 1 TB external HDD from WD. I wanted to use one of the two partitions to make a Karmic live USB. The program listed three entries - the smaller, 50 GB partition "sdb1" (which I selected, as it was empty), the 950 GB partition "sdb2" (which I used for storage purposes) and the whole physical device "sdb". I clicked "Format", and an error came up. Sadly, I didn't write it down. I do remember it was fairly technical. Convinced that something went wrong and nothing happened, I tried to mount the drive (just in case, heh), only to find a single, non-accessible (because it was in use) 1000 GB volume in the "Places" menu. I checked Task Manager and found mkfs.vfat and dosfsck working happily in the background.
before: 1 TB external HDD - 2 NTFS partitions; one 50 GB, empty; the other 950, filled with 500 GB worth of backups of varying importance.
after: 1 TB external HDD - 1 FAT32 partition; empty, just shy of terabyte.
Interestingly enough, the disk appears to be empty and thoroughly unusable even for the program's intended purpose of making a bootable live USB. But that's the least of my worries right now.