Ubuntu :: USB Hard Drive Won't Load

I recently reinstalled Ubuntu 10.10 on my system. I then wanted to get rid of Windows 7 (which crashed and doesn't work) so I deleted the OS_Install partition that was on there. The tutorial I was reading told me to delete both Linux Swap partitions so I could take all the unallocated space and put it on one partition (/dev/sda2). So I did that. At first everything worked great, then I ran like 250 updates that were listed and now it won't load my 250GB external hard drive which has all my files on it that were backed up from Windows. I don't know if this has anything to do with it, but my system won't boot with the drive pluged in and neither will my other Windows Vista system. My first though was that it wasn't being recognized but when I ran lsusb it said it was there.

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root@caleb-A6200:/home/caleb# lsusb
Bus 002 Device 006: ID 1058:0704 Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Passport External HDD
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 13d3:5092 IMC Networks
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0020 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub

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