Its not that scary really its just a gparted iso image you burn to a CD, then boot from that CD and you wii be in a gui interface ready to partition. If you can work your way around any other partitioning tool like you have already done then you can easily navigate gparted. I'm telling you there is a good chance it can save it. I've saved a few 'dead' drives over the last decade or so it's been around.I honestly don't know jack about Linux so I have no idea on what the heck I am even doing anyway lol. Found a 4GB flash drive that I'm gonna test with my vWii, with just like 2 small file size games (Wii Play for testing Wii stuff, and good ol' Kirby Air Ride for GameCube testing). Wish me luck and hope my vWii doesn't kill it! Also, random RANDOM question, does anybody know what the duration I have to return something back to Walmart in case it breaks (You know, when I buy another drive?)