I have had my hard drive for about a year or so now and suddenly it just stopped working. To be clear, it is my secondary hard drive, one that I just had random files and music on. I had unhooked my computer one day to clean it out with some air and upon hooking it back up the D drive (hard drive) showed up but as not having any space. I've tried to format and windows basically tells me I can't. Any help? And just to clarify, when I unhooked it to clean it out, I never unhooked any of the compnents inside the computer, just opened it up and blew some air. Thanks. www.myspace.com/blueskytomorrows www.myspace.com/sarahcoleman www.myspace.com/bakercourtrecords www.blueskytomorrows.com

If you blew it out with a vacuum cleaner or some other device with a metal nozzle and touched the hdd while blowing it may have hit it with static electricity. Air flowing over metal creates static elect. http://computervitals.com/

What Per is saying is that it only takes 30 volts of static electricity to fry a component of your computer. It takes about 20,000 before you can feel it! However this only applies to the motherboard. You could not have done any damage to the HD! So, if your computer is still up and running, you may have just burned out one port on the motherboard. You will need a different computer to hook up the HD to in order to see if it actually still works or not, but I would bet it does.

A person has to be careful about blowing out the inside of their computers with canned air also. If you continuously hold the button down, liquid starts blowing out instead of air; if you start the computer back up immediately after blowing it out, chances are that you could short something out due to the liquid that just got blown in. If I blow electronics out with canned air, I let them sit for a few minutes (I like 15 minutes to be specific) to dry before I plug them in and turn them on. How old was the secondary drive and did you get it new?

the Hard drive was only a year old tops, and it was new. I did blow air in it so I may have just shorted it out. I did try it in another pc and no luck Thanks! www.myspace.com/blueskytomorrows www.myspace.com/sarahcoleman www.myspace.com/bakercourtrecords www.blueskytomorrows.com nlw.freehostia.com