I received a 500gig external passport harddrive, p/n wdbaaa5000abk-00 and after i formatted it it said there was 512 tb (thats not a misprint)

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I received a 500gig external passport harddrive, p/n wdbaaa5000abk-00 and after i formatted it it said there was 512 tb (no thats not a misprint, it has 512 terabytes), I can’t put anything on the drive even though it has 1 volume that says it is 2048.00 GB RAW and another volume that is 522239.44 GB unallocated

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This hard drive does not sound healthy. A larger-than-actual size is usually a sign of something wrong with the unit’s platters. Try running a health test using WD Data Lifeguard Diagnostics for Windows for confirmation.

https://support.wdc.com/knowledgebase/answer.aspx?ID=940

If the drive fails the test it should be replaced. If it passes try writing zeros to your unit so you can initialize and format it from scratch.

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Well unfortunately it failed, I kinda liked the idea of having an external hard drive with that much room. Thanks for the input