Windows 10 How to Initialize Newly Connected 2TB HDD?

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I connected a newly bought 2TB Seagate Barracuda HDD. It was a 2nd hand product. I already have an SSD, 4TB Seagate Barracuda. The 4TB uses GUID Partition System. I can see my 2TB HDD is showing as "Not Initialized". When I try to initialize it in GPT, it gives me an error "a Device Which Does Not Exist Was Specified". I tried command prompts to clean and convert it to GPT but to no avail. Out of curiosity, I tried MBR but still it gave me the same error. How do I solve this? The HDD worked fine on the guy's computer that I bought from. I am attaching a few health status captured on his comput

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