If you're brave and mechanically inclined enough, take the hard drive out of
the case. If the drive maker indicates "Jupiter", chunk it in the trash and
replace it now with a WD, Seagate, Maxtor, or Hitachi model 120GB.
Will save you some heartache in a couple of weeks from now at least that was
my experience.

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Jonny
"g." <g. @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:AE78C85F-433E-4AC5-A721-7388CD018CE1@microsoft.com...
> I recently got a acomdata 80 gb external hard drive, and plugged it in and
it
> worked just fine, but it wouldn't let me store anything from my C: drive
on
> it (ex: i transferred my iTunes library to my F: drive, opened iTunes, and
my
> whole library was gone because it was no longer located in the C: drive
> area). Then I discovered there was an installation disk with the hard
drive.
> I'm sure it would've helped, but now whenever i put the disk in, it won't
> run, just opens as a folder. To install it correctly, I need my computer
to
> recognize the hard drive as new so I can go through the right process.
I've
> tried system restore, but my only checkpoint of the month won't do me any
> good.
>
> Any advice?
> My computer is low on space so I really need this drive to work.