Keyboard Hard Drive Problems!

Question

Oh, god where do I start. 

My friend accidentally pulled out my tablet from its keyboard which served also as an external hard drive and basically, it corrupted my hard drive. I was so desperate to get my files back that I installed a "testdisk" whatever I found online which recovered most of it. However, once I'd finished the process of recovering my files and formatting the hard drive, I discovered that my hard drive was then missing! The icon wasn't in "My Computer" anymore. 

I finally found it in Disk Management where it was still (kind of) recognized, and it looks like this. 

(Disk 0 is my OS, and Disk 1 is the external hard drive)

As I right clicked Disk 1, I tried to format the drive just to see if it would fix anything. However, it couldn't be formatted. It would just tell me to try to assign a path/ a letter. I tried that, too. However, when I tried it, this is what showed up.

Now, I'm not sure if this is how it's supposed to look like. Something tells me the external hard drive should also be showing up as a volume that supports drive paths. But, as you can see, only my OS is showing up. 

I tried consulting another help thread online and it advised me to delete the volume and create a new simple partition. These were the steps I made:

And just when I thought that would finally work,

It still didn't!

I'm so tired. I've been trying to figure this out for MONTHS and I can't seem to understand what happened. My guess is that something went wrong when I tried to recover my files. Hopefully it's not that lest I find a bigger problem. 

Please help!!!

Answer 1

Get the drive manufacturer's utility and ZERO WRITE / LOW LEVEL FORMAT the drive.