While partitioning in Lion 10.8, I get the following error message: I have been attempting to partition a 2 GB hard drive that I just formatted using the Disk Utilty in Mountain Lion (10.8) and get the following error message: DiskManagementTool has died

I have been attempting to partition a 2 GB hard drive that I just formatted using the Disk Utilty in Mountain Lion (10.8) and get the following error message:
DiskManagementTool has died. Disk Utility will need to be restarted. The log shows the following:
2012-09-10 11:20:51 -0700: Preparing to partition disk: “HitachiG ST Media”
2012-09-10 11:20:51 -0700:      Partition Scheme: GUID Partition Table
2012-09-10 11:20:51 -0700:      2 partitions will be created
2012-09-10 11:20:51 -0700:
2012-09-10 11:20:51 -0700:      Partition 1
2012-09-10 11:20:51 -0700:           Name          : “Alex's External Storage”
2012-09-10 11:20:51 -0700:           Size          : 1.5 TB
2012-09-10 11:20:51 -0700:           File system     : Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
2012-09-10 11:20:51 -0700:           Do not erase contents
2012-09-10 11:20:51 -0700:
2012-09-10 11:20:51 -0700:      Partition 2
2012-09-10 11:20:51 -0700:           Name          : “Alex's External Storage 2”
2012-09-10 11:20:51 -0700:           Size          : 500.05 GB
2012-09-10 11:20:51 -0700:           File system     : Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
2012-09-10 11:20:51 -0700:
2012-09-10 11:20:51 -0700: Beginning partition operations
2012-09-10 11:20:51 -0700: DiskManagementTool has died. Disk Utility will need to be restarted.
2012-09-10 11:20:52 -0700: DiskManagementTool has died. Disk Utility will need to be restarted.
2012-09-10 11:20:52 -0700: DiskManagementTool has died. Disk Utility will need to be restarted.
2012-09-10 11:20:52 -0700: DiskManagementTool has died. Disk Utility will need to be restarted.
2012-09-10 11:20:55 -0700: Disk Utility started.
Does anyone have any thoughts? Cant find anything on the web with this

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