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Problems with external HD
Hi, i'm not that all knowledgeable about computers, but not that ignorant either.
I'm in france, and just got a brand new Toshiba with windows 7 home premium x64 on it. On the other hand, i got my old hard drive sent from home which my father devised (he's an engineer, and it was cheaper). It's IDE.
When i first connected it to the system it worked fine for about 2 hours (could 'see' it and could get files and do stuff), but after that, each time i try to use it, the system recognizes it for about 2 seconds (you can see the Disk with a letter on the My computer window), and then prompts this message that says "You need to format this disk to use it. Format or Cancel" I click format, and it says it can't format the disk because it's protected. I already got all of my important files out of it, so recovering is not my objective, i just want to get this thing functional again. It's not the letters, and after it says it cant format the disk, it stays ON, but it's nowhere to be seen on windows. Not in My computer, not on system management, drives, etc.
I need to format this to free some space up from the laptop's disk, so please, if anyone can help, i would greatly appreciate it
Thanks