Hello, I was wondering if anyone might be able to help me.

I have a 200 gig portable hard drive that plugs into the computer via a firewire port or a usb port.

I had it hooked up to my mom's computer today. I was doing a complete system reinstall for her computer (windows xp) and completely wiped both of her hard drives. I got a little button happy and accidently wiped my portable drive while it was conected to her computer.

There wasn't anything important on the drive, so I'm not worried about recovering anything. It's just that now the computer can't see the drive at all. I went into disk management to reformat it and it can't see it. When I tried plugging it into my stepdad's computer, it couldn't be detected.

My computer always has recognized this drive as my F drive but now when I plug it in it simply isn't there. The computer makes a noise when I plug in the firewire cord but nothing comes up.

What can I do to get the computer to see my hard drive??

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