Hi, not long ago I had baught an external hard drive...It worked fine until I decides to take out the hard drive and try to install an OS onto it by hooking it up to one of my computers a a secondary HD(since i couldn't find another way). I used an Install CD(winxp) to do this, I was going through the installation i had chosen to have it formatted in NTFS, it formatted than began installing windows.
Than after not much longer i get file write errors so i figured it was my CD driver and quit the installation, now my HD from my external HD mysteriously does not work, when I hook it back up to the external box and try to use it windows detects it, gives me the name and that it's a storage device than say's this device is installed and ready to use(as ussuall) But no drive shows up.
It might of been a partition I put on it before i began installing it but i'm not sure, when I had gone back into the windows setup and tried to install it told me there was a partition on it that I must deleat, but when I tried to deleat it nothing happenned.
Is my HD dead? Thanks for any help!!
Than after not much longer i get file write errors so i figured it was my CD driver and quit the installation, now my HD from my external HD mysteriously does not work, when I hook it back up to the external box and try to use it windows detects it, gives me the name and that it's a storage device than say's this device is installed and ready to use(as ussuall) But no drive shows up.
It might of been a partition I put on it before i began installing it but i'm not sure, when I had gone back into the windows setup and tried to install it told me there was a partition on it that I must deleat, but when I tried to deleat it nothing happenned.
Is my HD dead? Thanks for any help!!
