[phil2211]

right guys and girls here it goes! a little while ago i chucked my old laptop out and brought a new one, i kept my hard drive from the laptop because i have now turned it into a external one.
its been running perfict but i decided to format it because i just wanted to wipe everything, i done this through using vista.
when i have gone to use this external hard drive again its now showing the icon on my computer but when i click on it to open its coming up as i need to format it... i click ok this opens up another little window but this other little window is to tell me windows cant format it..... ive checked the properties and its saying that i have 0 bites in my hard drive, ya know the little pie sorta diagram down the bottom.... i have a program to try and format it but the program can not find the hard drive it only detects the one ive got in my laptop.
please pleas HELP! i have not got a clue what to do.

[Megabite]

It may be that the HD is faulty....to test try it on another PC and see if it sees it and you can format it

[phil2211]

im not able to do it 2morrow cos the other computer is in parents room and they are asleep haha the only reason i wouldnt see it as faulty but u never know, as its a laptop HD im thinking that maybe there was a boot driver or something that i wiped, what ya think?