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Did you back up everything essential from the external disk? Are you sure? Absolutely?
Even if, what file system is on the disk? If it's FAT/FAT32/VFAT you can use it with Linux, up to a file size of 4GB (2^32 bytes). If you have FUSE or can get it to run, and install ntfs-3g, you'll have NTFS support, too.
Open a terminal session, connect the disk, and run dmesg. At the bottom of the output you should see some lines similar to this
Important is the bold line. The first tells us the device node it's presented as (sdb in this case), and that there's 1 partition on it (sdb1).
If it's only 1 partition (most probable), you can format it straight away as root:
After it's finished, disconnect and reconnect the drive, and the automounter of GNOME should pick it up just fine.
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