When reformatting a Hard drive and it says don't stop or data will be lost...believe!

[TivoDano]

Hello, I have a question I hope someone can help with. I bought hard drive enclosure and put in a 80 gig drive I used to have in my Tivo. I plugged it in and the computer saw it and I went to reformat the drive to erase the data. The reformatting began but soon I realized I wouldn't have enough time to finish the task at the time so I wanted to stop the formatting. The computer said if I stopped the data might not be retrievable but being as I was erasing it anyway I did not care. End of story is that the drive is no longer being seen properly, instead of showing an available storage of say 75 gigs it now shows "0" storage available. Is this drive ruined or can I save it?? Any help would be welcomed. Thanks

[Dan203]

You can still reformat it. If this is a Windows XP machine got to the Control Panel and click on Administrative Tools, then Computer Management. Open the Storage + on the left and select Disk Management. Find the drive in the list on the right, right click on it and select Format.

Dan