I've had that happen before as well. 1) timing out might be a sign of a disk failing. 2) check that you've reinitialized the disk the same way... if you've wiped it in the past to work on it, that may be the ticket again. 3) check that you've got it plugged in to a good connection. I know this sounds dumb but the ports on the front of my case aren't as responsive when booting up as the ones that are built-in to the motherboard in the back. Also, try reinitializing with
<b>diskutil list</b> Note X for later
<b>diskutil unmount diskX</b> (unmount it so when you write the MBR code in FDISK it will work the first time)
<b>fdisk -e /dev/rdiskX</b> X being disk #
<b>reinit</b>
<b>update</b>
<b>f Y</b> Y being partition #
<b>w</b>
<b>q</b>

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