One of two partitions broken.

[kiriri]

Hi, I just broke yet another external drive and this time it broke in a way that made me doubt it is actually completely broken. I had 2 Partitions on that drive, and one of them can still be accessed perfectly. The other one however cannot even be deleted, and it seems there is only a small part of it broken because Linux only stops the deletion process after like one or two minutes.
So I was wondering, is there a way to "cut" the bad part out? Like creating a third partition to isolate it from the good part?

Greetings,
kiriri

[yancek]

You need to be a little more specific about "broke it". What exactly happened? What's on the drives? Operating system? Data partitions? What filesystem type? What are you using to "delete" the partitions?

[kiriri]

it's an external drive I used to store unimportant files on.
It's connected via USB and it broke right when I tried to install fedora on it. So I'm not sure which filesystem type it is right now, but the working partition is NTFS. Windows doesn't even recognize it at all.

I used the standard Ubuntu manager to try to delete or format it.

[Jonathan183]

Are you trying to delete files on the partition using a file manager, or delete the partition using gparted?

the output of the following would also be useful ...

mount
sudo fdisk -l
sudo blkid