Removable storage problem

Howdy

I own a 465Gig removable storage device. It is USB powered. I recently plugged it to my smart TV and reformatted it so I could record TV shows directly to it from the TV.

Not to much later I realized that the recording process on the TV was kind of primitive so I decided to change it back to computer formatting.

The problem now is when I plug it back to the computer it says to use this device windows needs to reformat it. I go fine and go through the process on the desktop. It says it is going to make it NTFS and I have selected device presets.

The real problem now is when you initiate the format process another message comes up saying "Windows is unable to reformat the device"

So now I have a device that is dead to me unless you have a solution for me.

Thanks

How do I clean the device and start over if the PC is unable to format it?

I found a tutorial on How to run the clean command. Went through the process, selected the disk I wanted to clean and then typed clean all at the DISKPART prompt.

Now all there is is a little flashing underscore cursor there. There is a little blue flashing light on the removable drive. Does this sound right?

Thanks

Thanks

It didn't look like it worked because it didn't say it had finished the clean command in the command prompt?, strange, but it did something. I managed to retrieve and reformat with Acronis Disk Director. Disk director didn't work on it before "Clean All" command. Now it is all working fine.

Thanks