

These command should clean partitions, format the drive, name it My Book and assign a letter. Select disk n (n must be the number of the drive) From the description I got the impression that initialization is not possible through Disk Management, right? If you have no important data on the drive, run the Command Prompt as an Administrator and use the following commands: Have in mind that initializing or formatting the hard drive will erase all files stored on it. Do you have important data stored on the drive?

Is this a new drive or you have been using it for some time before the issue occurred? I strongly recommend you to test the device on another PC and with another USB cable. I am sorry for any difficulties caused by your Western Digital drive.
