Is it recognised in Disk Management?
If so you can format there

"Dave Neve" <NoAddressForSpammers@noway.fr> wrote in message
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> Hi
>
> I have a HD that was bootable and taken out of an old computer.
>
> There may be a problem with the formatting cos originally, I wanted to
keep
> it in the old computer but when I was repartitioning it, sth went wrong
and
> I got an error (Magic Partition Maker)
>
> After that, we couldn't do anything with it, not even go back to previous
> working configuration or reboot in safe mode.
>
> So I took it out with the idea to use it as a external HD instead.
>
> But when I connect it to my new computer, it is recognised as an external
> storage device but does not appear in 'My computer'.
>
> Instead, Windows tries to find a driver for it but fails.
>
> How can I access this HD to reformat it and use it?
>
> Thanks
>
> Dave Neve
>
>