My WD easystore HD not usable on my Mac - El Capitan or Sierra

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After both my MacBook Pro (Mid 2012) running El Capitan 10.11.6) and my MacBook Air running Sierra 10.12.5 failed to recognize my WD easystore HD right out of the box, I have been trying to repair it in Recovery. But when I run First Aid, it tells me to run it in Recovery - when I’m in Recovery!!! Can it get any more idiotic?

The problem is apparently “problems with the partition map which might prevent booting.” Ok, so?

How do I fix this drive - that can’t be recognized, right out of the box, and that my Mac - in Recovery - tells me to repair in Recovery??!!

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There could be some possible solutions for this:

  1. Do you have a Mac nearby that is running a lower version of macOS say Yosemite or Mavericks? Try repairing it through an older version of the Disk Utility.

  2. Re-initialize the drive to HFS or HFS+ partition in recovery or Desktop mode Disk Utility

  3. You may try to initialize it with Terminal also.