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WD 1TB Ext HDD will not initialize - Incorrect Function
I recently acquired a WD 1 TB hard drive P/N WD1000H1U-00 from a friend because he can no longer get it to work, and bought a new one, he says if i can fix it i can have it...
the drive shows a USB icon in the lower right hand corner with only the option to eject(last attached pic)...drive does not show up under my computer, other drives do...(internal drive and another USB mass storage device.)
However, the drive does show up under the device management (first attached pic)
Under the disk management screen it pops up telling me i need to initialize the drive (second attached pic)
I then click ok on the correct option (for under 2TB drive) and i get this error/failure (third attached pic)
after that closes i can right click the drive in the same screen and the initialize is now grayed out and i cant click on it (fourth attached pic)
So here's what i have done...
Tried reformatting it in command prompt...(fifth attached pic)...cant create partition primary...im assuming because the drive is not initialized
what is my next step? data being lost is no biggie, BUT if it can be saved easily, my friend says there are a few pics he would like to get off of it, but if not, he is not worried about it.