External drive doesn't detect, not initialized and getting cyclic redundancy check error

[Nishan]

Hi, is there a possibility to format and make this drive work again? I was able to recover the data via a 3rd party SW. When I try to initialize the drive, I’m getting a cyclic redundancy check error. Would really appreciate some help.

[Bastet]

You can try cleaning the drive using diskpart which will remove everything.
Right click Start & choose powershell with admin.
Type & enter:
diskpart
list disk
select disk X (where X is the number of the drive you want to clean)
clean
exit
exit

Then go to drive manager & format the drive.
If at any point it fails then the drive is faulty.

[Bruce]

what is the age and capacity of this drive?
you have its data recovered, so why are you still interested in a known, unreliable drive?
sentimental value perhaps?

if a storage medium does not have your complete faith, why use it?
they are dirt cheap to buy and a failed drive to me is simply an excuse to upgrade to a bigger or better (as in SSD) drive.

life is too short - ditch the unit and get another. otherwise you are setting yourself up for heartache down the track. (y)

[Nishan]

You can try cleaning the drive using diskpart which will remove everything.
Right click Start & choose powershell with admin.
Type & enter:
diskpart
list disk
select disk X (where X is the number of the drive you want to clean)
clean
exit
exit

Then go to drive manager & format the drive.
If at any point it fails then the drive is faulty.

Problem is, the drive doesn’t get detected at all. So I cannot find the drive number to clean it. any other suggestions?
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[Nishan]

what is the age and capacity of this drive?
you have its data recovered, so why are you still interested in a known, unreliable drive?
sentimental value perhaps?

if a storage medium does not have your complete faith, why use it?
they are dirt cheap to buy and a failed drive to me is simply an excuse to upgrade to a bigger or better (as in SSD) drive.

life is too short - ditch the unit and get another. otherwise you are setting yourself up for heartache down the track. (y)

True I need to upgrade to a SSD. But would still need this 2TB to be my backup (just in case).

[Rustys]

How are you connecting the drive to the system?

[Nishan]

How are you connecting the drive to the system?

Its an external drive so via a USB cable (3.0) and its just 2 years old

[Rustys]

Is it listed under drive manager?

Have you tried a different USB non 3 port and a different system?

[Nishan]

Is it listed under drive manager?

Have you tried a different USB non 3 port and a different system?

I presume you meant disk management? Ya it is.. I will try it on another system and see
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[Rustys]

Lets see if this still works

Right Click on the drive and click initialize
Then you should be able to format it

But would still need this 2TB to be my backup (just in case).

That is no 2 TB HDD that is reading as a 1 TB HDD. According to the screen shot you provided.

Lets download CrystalDiskInfo and see what that reveals on that drive

https://crystalmark.info/en/download/

Have you tried a different USB non 3 port and a different system?

[Bastet]

Either there’s a hidden partition of 1TB or the drive isn’t 2TB.
If it isn’t showing in diskpart then most likely the drive has failed.

[Rustys]

Do you need any more assistance?

[Rustys]

Closed lack of response OP