Trouble Formatting External Harddrive

[jay521]

   

I Own a Buffalo Drivestation HD-CE1.0TU2.

Im not really sure what firmware.

The drive formatted itself to RAW format, and now what I am trying to do is format it to NTFS

The Problem is, the hard drive isnt showing up as a drive letter.

So I went into computer management,  found the drive, tried to create a new simple volume so i can format the drive, but it gives me the error

"The operation cannot be completed because the disk is not initialised."

Same thing when i try to quick format.

 

Also the drive is showing up as Unallocated in disk management.

 

OS: Windows Vista

[PCPiranha]

In disk management right click on the drive itself (not the unallocated space) and there should be an option to initialize.

[jay521]

   

it says data error (cyclic redundancy check)

[jay521]

   

any help would be appreciated, i still havent figured this out...

[jay521]

   

please.... any more advice is greatly needed...

[PCPiranha]

That means that either the unit is failing a CRC check, meaning that it's detecting a flaw in the hardware that will kill the drive if you format or it means that your computer is reporting a false CRC error.  I would try it on another system, usually a CRC error with an external HDD is a bad sign, you should honestly be hearing a clicking noise by that point.