I think I killed my portable HD will trying to make Ubuntu bootable from it. How to undo?

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Published on 2012-09-04T00:12:39Z Indexed on 2012/09/04 3:48 UTC
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I have OSX. My HD appears as two drives; one formatted for OSX, and the other FAT32 for everything. Note: I am a complete Terminal noob.

I followed the How to create a bootable USB stick on OS X page. I installed it to the Mac formatted partition, which I'm 95% sure was a mistake. I was thinking more in terms of free space than proper format.

Anyway, it doesn't boot, and I can't get the HD to appear when I plug it back into OSX. I have no idea how to undo what I did in Terminal. Any ideas?

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