Windows 10: External Hard Disk WD Elements Not Working /Unknown - Not Initialized/

Hello,My Laptop is not showing the drive for External Hard Disk WD Elements in "My PC". I only show the existing Drives C and D system partitioned ones. But the Hard Disk is identified by "Devices and Printers" under Elements 10B8 - When I click on Properties and then Hardware, it shows the name of Hard Disk as "WD Elements 10B8 USB Device"; also, Device status shown as "This device is working properly.". From Microsoft Explorer Window -> Disk Management - Hard Disk is populated as Disk1 as "Unknown" and "Not Initialized". Please note that it does not show any volume details. When I try

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External Hard Drive (WD Elements) is visible in PW but not in explorer

followed steps..

the partition displayed as below...





as advised I selected "list".. and for a long time it was like this..

 

WD Elements drive is Unknown, not initialized, unallocated

I have a WD Elements attached to my computer, I always was able to access it now it shows as Unknown, not initialized, unallocated, it contains thousands of family pics and backups, how do I get it to be recognizes so i can access it?

 

unknown, Not initialize, unallocated external hard disk want to initialize

I wanted to initialize unknown, unallocated,not initialize external hard disk, but when I go to disk manager and try to initialize the message pop up "Virtual disk manager access denied".

Secondly, drive do not have any letter, and I CAN'T to assign letter to drive (in order to go for chkdsk in prompt command). when I right click on unknown & unallocated drive then there is only option left are properties help and offline.

My question is how can I initialize the drive or bring the status online in order to assign drive letter and initialize the disk?