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I have a problem with my western digital external hard drive (1 tb my passport) Its not functioning properly as seen below. Everything lights up well, but when i plug it, thats what happens. It doesnt even wanna show the right name with should be (My Passport). These are what i tried and its results

I tried to:

Format it: Unable to format

Open it: Either that folder freezes causing my pc to freeze/ It says insert disk

Open disk management: Its stuck at "Connecting to virtual disk" ONLY when that hard drive is plugged

Open its properties for chkdsk: It doesnt want to open and it also freezes

Format the hard drive using cmd: Unable to format also

Uninstall the driver in device manager: It never finishes, i tried leaving it to uninstall for about 5 hrs straight, yeah its still there, my guess is that it froze there.

YES I HAVE TRIED ALL THESE ON ANOTHER PC, SAME RESULT

Is there anything i can do? I dont mind wiping all the data, or losing all of it. As long as it can become usable again.

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