Windows 10: Inability to format a bad external HD

In WIN 10 I have an external hard drive that my software will not recognize. I am able to see it in Disk Management but when I R-click there is no option to format it. I have used a recovery software to take the files off of it and all I want to do now is format it as there must be a bad sector causing this problem. HELP!

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Cannot Format HD


Need to initialize it as GPT disk type with HD > 2TB:
From Admin command prompt:

1. diskpart
2. list disk =====> Take a note of disk # for the 4TB HD
3. select disk # ====> From step 2
4. clean
5. exit

Open Disk Management and initialize the disk as GPT, create simple then format.

 

Formatting an external HD

You can't have "access" to an external HD unless it's been formatted. If you're referring to the same external device that you had trouble with in XP, you should consider that there could be something wrong with the drive, rather than there being a problem
with formatting per se.

 

Formatting an external HD

I just want to verify formatting an external HD using Win10 will give me access to the HD. I did it with WinXP and couldn't access it, it didn't even show up using windows explorer.