How do you initialise new external hdd 5 tb?

[askara]

I when to disk management and tried to format it, tried both GPT and mbr but i get a error about I/O error. is the hdd faulty?

 

[rgd1101]

What is the model of this external 5tb?

 

[askara]

What is the model of this external 5tb?

WD 5TB Elements Desktop External Hard Drive - USB 3.0 - WDBWLG0050HBK-EESN (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Elements-Desktop-External-Drive-WDBWLG0050HBK-EESN/dp/B00NAQG0VY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1494278289&sr=8-1&keywords=WD+5TB+Elements+Desktop)

i got it from the amazonwarehouse. its opened but i dont think it has been used

Its somehow in MBR set to read only

Status : Online
Path : 0
Target : 0
LUN ID : 0
Location Path : UNAVAILABLE
Current Read-only State : Yes
Read-only : Yes
Boot Disk : No
Pagefile Disk : No
Hibernation File Disk : No
Crashdump Disk : No
Clustered Disk : No

There are no volumes.