HELP! Deleted current volume on external HD

[gemkg]

Hi all,

I'm pretty much a novice when it comes to technical things

I just got an external HD to free up my hd on my macbook ... however I don't have my macbook with me at the moment but wanted to transfer some old stuff from my imac (circa 2003)

So I plugged in the drive (iomega prestige 500gb) and was following the instructions to format it. The guide book said the drive is formatted NTFS and I would need to re format to Mac OS extended journaled.

So I am going through the steps to make one partition, at this point when I plugged the drive in it was on the desktop and then when I went into disk utility there was the drive and one volume... so I was in that volume doing the partition stuff...

But then I noticed I had not clicked "partition 1" instead of current

so I stopped the process...

This made the volume vanish from the desktop and now in disk utility I can only see the disk and nothing underneath ....

Have I killed the external hd?

please help!!

 

[simsaladimbamba]

You have not killed the HDD, you just erased a partition / volume. You can do it again and again and again and again ...

The following guides should help you understand Disk Utility and how to partition and format internal and external HDDs.
Format Your Hard Drive Using Disk Utility
Partition Your Hard Drive With Disk Utility