What to do after I wipe an external hard drive?

I just used KillDisk to erase a 1 TB external hard drive. I still want to use this hard drive but my computer does not recognize it. I read that I might have to reformat or something? Also read something about Fdisk. Don't know if this is the case for me, no one knows anything about what I should do next? And how to do it? Thank you.

This is the site with instructions. Unfortunately, I'm not very aware when it comes to technology. Help, please!

http://www.killdisk.com/KillDisk-FAQ.htm

Press start, search diskmgmt.msc, open that appears in the search. (should be "diskmgmt")

Find your external drive, which, on the lower part of the screen, should have a giant bar with black on top of it. If it is blue, read the paragraph after it and ignore the following sentence. Right click after making sure is your external drive (you can tell by looking at how big it is), and then select new simple volume.

If the bar is blue, and you are sure it is your external drive, it has already been formatted. In this case, right click, select change drive letter and paths, and if there is no letter listed, click Add, choose a letter and press Ok. It should be shown in my computer.

If it's black, continue reading below.

Press next, and then it will ask you what size you want the partition, and it should already have filled the maximum space, you can do. Press next. You can then select a drive letter, that will most likely be E, of course you can change it to any desired letter.

In the next screen, it should have already chosen "format this volume with the following settings. Make sure he put the NTFS file system, allocation unit size must be default which is very good, and you can choose a name for the drive.

Quick format is selected automatically and I would say leaving just checked, as a normal on a 1 format to player would take a few hours.

Pressing should then start formatting. On this bar where you initially right click to start this, admittedly, formatting. When he's ready, he'll say: formatting (0%) and then it should finish quickly, because you have chosen to do a quick format.

After that, the drive appears in my computer and can be used.

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