Can anyone help?

[starrylizard]

Yet another way my computer is trying to screw me over. :(

Tonight my computer is not reading the stuff on my external hard drive. Like, at first I thought it had reformatted it and I was all "nooooooo!" But then I realised the properties still tell me Free space: 556Gb, Total size: 931Gb which means the information is still there, but my computer is only bringing up a blank.

I tried restarting several times and plugging it back in, which usually fixes issues with hard drives for my compy, but it's not working this time. :(

help... *squeak*

All my media files, not to mention that was the back up for my stupid hard drive of fail. :(

EDIT: Freaking a bit... Seems everyone has this problem... O_O

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[starrylizard.livejournal.com]

I bought a second drive today. However a professional is gonna take my computer away and reset the blooming thing from scratch on Monday, so hopefully that'll cure some of my many other glitches. I'll probably do the partitioning thing after that, so if you have thoughts on free software, feel free to let me know. My computer does give the option to reformat that drive though, so it's possible it'll do it without extra software. Just don't know if it partitions until I try.

Thank you!! :)