Cannot open an external hard drive in Windows

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Published on 2010-03-07T03:42:19Z Indexed on 2010/04/08 12:03 UTC
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In Windows 7, I was installing wubi ubuntu to an external hard drive when suddenly it disconnected from the PC. After I connected it back to PC, and double clicked the drive's icon, Windows didn't show the content of the disk but asked me whether I wanted to format it. The hard drive has only one partition. Its format is NTFS.

I also connected the disk to Windows XP. It makes the Windows Explorer super slow and I cannot open the disk as well.

I can open the disk on Ubuntu and Mac.

Is it possible to restore the disk and make it run in Windows?

Thanks

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