Formatting an external HDD

Circuitbreaker8

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Alright, so I have a WD mybook 500GB, and I want to completely wipe everything off it and start from scratch. I don't know what happened, but I can't get this damn thing to pull up on my macbook pro OR my PC. The problem is, when I first hooked it up to my macbook, Time machine ran and backed about 52gigs of info, but I could never access the drive from the mac after that.

I decided to hook it up to my PC and go from there, but still nothing. If I go to disk management, I can see the drive there and it appears to have no information written on it because it has almost 467GB left and says 100% storage left. I want to format this drive and return it as its been a headache since day one. I tried right clicking the drive in disk management, but all the options are blank/unclickable.
 
get something like paragon partition manager or partition magic.. and create a fat32 partition on it.. problem solved should work perfectly fine on your mac and pc after that..
 
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