System restore.
If you don't have any restore points that solve the issue, I'd have to go with reformatting it. If you reformat, you can use a program called 'Drivermax' to save the drivers - makes the process a lot less painful.
And another thing: The hard disk may be damaged; I know you said that the thing wasn't even being read, but if you could, please humor me and try out a program called spinrite on your computer; It's not free though, and it's up to you where you get it. If you don't want to do that there is always Windows chkdsk (start>run>"chkdsk /r").
Last edited by Vitter; 11-10-2007 at 06:56 PM..
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