WD My Passport HDD to be initialized

the HDD is one of my old: already used on my iMac OS Snow Leopard; today, new Catalina OS (neither Finder or Disk Utility SOS/initialize)don't recognizes it.

using Terminal I have identified it as disk3; The command "diskutil eraseDisk ExFAT /dev/disk3" (APFS as well) launches the process, And eventually returns "Error: -69760: Unable to write to the last block of the device".

is there any chance but throwing the device away?

Tanks

Andrea

iMac 21.5″

Posted on Oct 24, 2023 10:37 AM

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WD My Passport HDD to be initialized

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