Windows Vista will not read external drives

I had an external hard drive connected to my computer earlier today. All of a sudden, my computer froze and started to make noises beeps, then I stopped and released my external drive.  Now, whenever I plug a drive it tells me that I have to reformat. However when I try to reformat the drive, he told me that the format could not be completed. It allows me to format NTFS, but that does nothing for me. I need to format in FAT or FAT32, but it won't let me. I even reformatted my drive to FAT32 from another computer, but when I plug in Vista it still says it needs to be formatted.  I got lost. How can I get Vista to re-read my external drives?

Hello

Run the diagnostic tool for Microsoft Fixit.

Hardware devices not detected or does not:
http://support.Microsoft.com/GP/hardware_device_problems

See also: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Formatting-disks-and-drives

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