IF i was you i would do it the long way, because then at least you know where a mistake was made.
anyway , to know if iPod patcher has found ur ipod it will say a bunch of stuff
and somewhere in the information will be two size values
e.g 72MB
193139 MB
Or something like that, (what i just wrote was an example, it varies on different ipods) these values would denote ur partition table, thus if it shows it then it means its found ur ipod