Cyclic Redudancy Check

Im trying to wipe a corrupted external hard drive but i cant seem to find any way to do it since every google search is more about recovery the data. I don' t particularity care about the data on the drive i mainly use it so i can move my steam library from pc to pc. anytime i try to use chkdsk...

Hey, so I recently was trying to install a new hard drive onto my computer. When I go into Disk Management to Initialize the disk it gives me the error of Cyclic Redundancy Check. I have tried and Googled on how to fix it but all the solutions assume you have already had the disk initialized...