Western Digital My Book Formatting Problem

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Hi,

After copying a lot of data to western digital my book essential edition, I got the message “the disk in drive g: is not formatted. Do you want to format?” I pressed yes, then was told “the disk in drive g: cannot  be formatted.”  I can’t open the drive anymore.  Now it no longer shows on my computer. What do I do?

I have a HP Pavillion with Windows XP.

It shows in device manager, but as unreadable, with no volume

Here is a description of my drives. 

Volume    Layout       Type        File System

(C:)              Partition    Basic      NTFS

(D:)              Partition    Basic      FAT32

  

Can anyone help, please?

Thanks for any help you can give me.

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You can try going to Disk Utility and see if able to delete the partition and then reformat the drive.

See the link bellow for more information:

http://wdc.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1284/

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Hi John,

Thanks for replying.  Unfortunately, my external drive not listed in Disk Management, nor My Computer.