Cannot open External hard drive

[rjj]

Cannot open my external hard drive always asking for you want to reformat your disk

 

[profkefah]

you tried connecting the hdd to another computer
do u have any important data on it

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

http://pcsupport.about.com/od/windowsxp/ht/disk-management-xp.htm

Assign a driver letter to the external drive ^

 

[harryblue954]

Cannot open my external hard drive always asking for you want to reformat your disk

it always will till u do format all drives can't be used unless it's formatted also u have to mount it & give it a drive letter so it knows where u r pitting data, when it mounts it will format it at the same time