Creating a Partition has frozen my Disk Utility!!!!!!!

I need immediate help...I was trying to partition a drive into 2 and clicked partition after I had set it up. It's been creating a partition map now for the past 30 minutes or so. The color bar at the bottom has not moved past the 1/4 way mark. What can I do? Somebody please help me????
Thanks,
Sean

Where's the HD? Internal, external? FW, USB, or both? What formatting selected. Paucity of information makes troubleshooting difficult.
Quit Disk Utility. Then try DU again. If it hangs, then quit DU, create a new admin user account, log into it, and try again. Report back with details.

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