External Harddrive is giving me TROUBLE

[avaricewillkillu]

I have been through a lot with my hard drive and as of now i have reformatted it and run countless check disks on it, now it is showing up on my computer but when i try to open it it says the drive is not accessible abd that there is an "error performing inpage operation" PLEASE HELP

[patio]

How is it being reported in Disk Management ?
What did you use to format it and what OS are you running ? ?

[avaricewillkillu]

Im not exactly sure hopw to check the disk management, im on windows xp and i formatted it with the windows cmd prompt

[patio]

Right click My Computer...select Manage then Disk Management.

[avaricewillkillu]

this is my screen when i do that, it is disk F    if that doesnt work the url for the pic is http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p252/avaricewillkillu/diskmng.jpg