My sister wanted to use her external hard drive for the first time to put a bunch of pictures on it, so I connected it to her Microsoft Surface Pro 4 and tried to give it a good ol' format. When it was in the middle of that format, the computer froze up and I had no choice but to force reboot it. Since then, if you connect the drive to any computer, it goes through a weird cycle of Windows' device connected and device disconnected system sounds, but it doesn't show up at all under disk management, device manager, or Windows explorer. However, when I click the logo on the taskbar that you click when you want to eject a device, it shows the device there as an "Elements 10B8" which would be her drive. Because of the issue occurring (I'm guessing) when I was trying to format it at first, I booted up my main system into GParted live with her drive connected to see if I could reformat it from there. It showed some error that I forget when it was searching for drives, and then the only drives that showed up in GParted were my system's boot drive, data drive, and backup drive, but not her external drive. I'm out of ideas. Does anyone know how to fix this, or is this drive a lost cause? There was nothing on it, thankfully, but I'd hate to lost a perfectly good WD external drive.