Help...my external HDD is not detected.

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i have a transcend 500gb ext. hdd(Only USB, no external power supply)...lately this HDD would hang & freeze my system...i had some data on the HDD & i could open & explore it but when i tried to say...play a video on the HDD, it said the drive is not formatted, do you want to format it now?...but i didnot format it.instead i used acronis disk director & ran a CHKDSK..it found a lot of errors which it corrected...after that i couldnot even open it...the name of the HDD was earlier 500G..but it got changed to Local Disk...after this i opened up control panel> disk management & then deleted the partition(there was only one)...& then tried to format it but it couldnot format saying the HDD was in use or something...so i restarted the computer...& now my HDD doesnot show up in my computer or in Disk management...if i use EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard Professional & search for lost partitions it shows my HDD as an unallocated 465.75 gb space but the software has no option for formatting it...what should i do now to get my HDD working again?
 

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The HDD is now in RAW format.
U can't do any operation now.

U mentioned, u've used Acronis Disk Director. Open ur HDD through it.
Select and create partition, then format as NTFS.

Try it....
 
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The HDD is now in RAW format.
U can't do any operation now.

U mentioned, u've used Acronis Disk Director. Open ur HDD through it.
Select and create partition, then format as NTFS.

Try it....
thanx for replying.the problem is even acronis doesn't detect it now...only EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard Professional detects it but since it is a data recovery software it can't format the partition...any other software...plz guys i need all the help i can get...
 
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found a solution...i used a software named active@ killdisk...my HDD showed up on this software & i used it to "kill" my HDD..after that it started to show up in my computer...then i went to disk management & formatted my HDD there.
 
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