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I've also tried recovering any old partitions using the testdisk program from cgsecurity, but that doesn't find or recover any information either!
I'm running out of ideas, although i'm sure there...

I tried the live cd but it didn't make any difference. One thing i've noticed though, is that when i run the fdisk -l command, the external hard drive doesn't have any data associated with it...

Thanks for the quick replies.
I've installed Gparted and attempted to reformat... However, it won't let me select a partition size or file system type (they're disabled) - It says the drive has...

Hi guys,
I'm fairly new to linux, so please forgive me if I seem a bit clueless!
I'm having a nightmare with my external hard drive - (500GB Maxtor Basics) and I am running the Intrepid ibex...