I did something to my HD

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!!

Ok i went into Computer management(Tidder helped me with that) and tried to delete/add a new partition, no matter what i would never finish formatting, it would just say "this device cannot be formatted" Than I chose a smaller partition size (30gb isntead of 70) and it gave me the option of formatting in Fat32, which I did, and now it works. Can anyone explain to me why this happened? Thanks for any help!

Oh common!

can you try to reformat again as ntfs? now that it's working again, it may be possible to do it.

I had done that afterwards and it did not work lols, but guess what! it worked! Thank you sir!