The disk that came with it has drivers for win98, with winxp it should have the drivers. It worked in the past on all these computers. Thats how the info got on the drive in the first place. If I can get the info off the drive I gone chunk the drive.Any other ideas of why it would say drive not formatted? Thanks
Dave
If you attached the drive to your existing machine and it worked... before at least... and now... it's possible that the drive itself may be corrupted. If you tried it on another computer, and you haven't done anything physically to the drive, like dropped it by accident, or disconnected it (inside the external case) or anything like that.
Chances are the drive may be bad. If you had valuable info, data -- on that external drive, and you can't retrieve them any longer, chances are it's probably corrupted that you won't! Sorry!
What I would do, is try a different USB drive, see if your USB connections are working. This will weave out that theory that it isn't. Then, attach your external again, try it one last time. If you are using Windows XP -go into the
"computer manager" and look under "Storage" and "Disk Management", see what physical drives is being detected in Windows... if it see's the external it should read "healthy system" in the box telling you that the drive is being read.
If it doesn't detect the drive, then chances are there is something wrong with the drive. Either it's corrupted, or died completely and isn't being seen.
Now, you can format the drive here and things of that nature, but if it isn't detecting the drive, then a problem exist. Try it and get back to us!
