Shucked External - Parameter is incorrect

[Vectraat]

-Just shucked an older Western Digital My Book 5 TB external HDD.

-Connected it to my desktop PC and when I double click the drive letter I just see: "H:\ is not accessible - The parameter is incorrect." 

-I don't need anything on the HDD - will doing a quick format fix this or should I go about addressing this issue another way? 

It is a bit bizarre that this happened because I was pretty damn careful/cautious when shucking and installing the drive so I have no idea why this error even occurred. Does this message indicate corruption?
 

[TheKDub]

You could try formatting it to see if that works, I doubt it'd hurt anything.

 

It might be one of the drives where you have to cover a pin with something to keep it from making contact. I can't remember which pin it is though.

[Vectraat]

6 minutes ago, TheKDub said:

You could try formatting it to see if that works, I doubt it'd hurt anything.

 

It might be one of the drives where you have to cover a pin with something to keep it from making contact. I can't remember which pin it is though.

It looks exactly the same on the inside as a Western Digital EasyStore.

[Vectraat]

Would running chkdsk /F /R /X <drive letter> 

solve this issue? One person said if you do that it should fix the drive but the drive will be slower / won't last long after.

Kinda weird how the Healthy Primary Partition is only 582 GB RAW and there are 2 parts Unallocated?
If I delete the H: volume it won't delete the unallocated space either? I can't delete the unallocated volumes. I can only create "New Simple Volume" on one of them. Extending the H: volume only allows 1500991 MB which is only 1.5 TB so I'm losing a chuck of storage if I do that? 

 

 

[BrinkGG]

2 hours ago, Vectraat said:

Would running chkdsk /F /R /X <drive letter> 

solve this issue? One person said if you do that it should fix the drive but the drive will be slower / won't last long after.

Kinda weird how the Healthy Primary Partition is only 582 GB RAW and there are 2 parts Unallocated?
If I delete the H: volume it won't delete the unallocated space either? I can't delete the unallocated volumes. I can only create "New Simple Volume" on one of them. Extending the H: volume only allows 1500991 MB which is only 1.5 TB so I'm losing a chuck of storage if I do that? 

 

 

3 simple steps:

Download Minitool partition Wizard.

Open Minitool partition Wizar.

Format drive.  

 

https://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html

[Vectraat]

56 minutes ago, BrinkGG said:

3 simple steps:

Download Minitool partition Wizard.

Open Minitool partition Wizar.

Format drive.  

 

https://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html

I fixed this with diskpart. I have the full space now. I think this issue was due to Encryption on the Western Digital Controller. 

[BrinkGG]

On 8/25/2019 at 12:51 AM, Vectraat said:

I fixed this with diskpart. I have the full space now. I think this issue was due to Encryption on the Western Digital Controller. 

Fair enough. Minitool actually uses diskpart commands in the background for stubborn drives, so I recommend that to people who are afraid of command line. 

Glad it's in working order!