My ATA external hard disk shows up on my computer, but some partitions on it aren't working. Says I need to format them before I could use them. PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!
King!!
If you do a format you will lose whatever info is in those partitions. Just right-click on the partition and select "Format" from the menu. You probably should run a full disk scan on the drive using a low level utility, the drive vendor probably has one you can download and install.