hdd Having trouble initializing a hard drive

[TheOriginalMissQuackers]

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The Problem

My new 3TB HDD will not initialize when I so kindly ask it to; instead, the virtual disk manager informs me that "the request could not be performed because of an I/O device error."

More Information

• Specs of PC
• Event Viewer's more informative version of the error
• Information about the disk according to diskpart
  • Well, that used to be the information until I realized that the HDD was read-only yet again. I attempted to fix it by typing "attributes disk clear readonly," and now the disk will not show up in diskpart (there's only 3 disks there now. None of 3TB either). I had converted it from readonly several times because that fixed my problem for many people. It would always changed back, and I never had the problem of disappearance until just now as I'm writing this. The HDD also still shows up on Speccy and in Disk Management if you were wondering.
• The other HDD I'm currently using is a Seagate. Shouldn't be a problem with the drivers I don't believe.

What I've Attempted

• I have changed both the power and SATA cables multiple times, and I'm 100% certain that's not the problem.
• I've tried initializing as both types (even though you're supposed to use GPT for 2TB+ HDDs).
• I've tried cleaning it through diskpart.exe.
• I tried running SeaTools (Seagate's diagnostic utility); however, it did not register the drive. I think that's because it's not initialized.

Any ideas that you can give I'll be very thankful for! Also, if there's any information I can add, let me know. Thank you so much for reading this. 

[Electronics Wizardy]

You got a dead first gen segate 3tb The 3000m0001 ones. I got a stack of bad ones(4 of 5) and try to return it. Since that the drive shoes up as 3.8 gb tells me its probably bad.

[TheOriginalMissQuackers]

2 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

You got a dead first gen segate 3tb The 3000m0001 ones. I got a stack of bad ones(4 of 5) and try to return it. Since that the drive shoes up as 3.8 gb tells me its probably bad.

Thanks for that information. I bought it through Amazon. I just pray they will let me return it.