Anybody familiar with external harddrive fuckups?

[Slamooh]

no magnetic incident means your files are most likely still on the hard drive

[Boxerman08]

I hope you're right Slammy haha in the hard drive app that came with it though, when my hard drive is plugged in, it does recognize it, but it asks me to set up the drive, same thing when I originally purchased it and used it for the first time. I'm just scared that if I do set up the drive, it'll permanently erase all my shit.

[emericaridr11]

wait you dont know how to use Disk Utilities?

[Boxerman08]

Lol i kinda messed up on the phrasing of what I said about disk utility... When I go into disk utility my hard drive doesn't appear in it anywhere for me to even do anything to it