said by MIXZ1:Thanks, but cannot write to an unformatted partition. Cannot address an unformatted partition. Can just delete and recreate the partition. I'm at the point of "doing the same thing over and ever again expecting a different result"
I don't understand your statement...
My advise to do a Full "Low-Level" Erase of the drive (writing Zeroes to the drive) does NOT address the drive at the Partition level, but at the Raw Track/Sector level instead...
That kind of Erase can even eliminate any corruption/Virus/Rootkit that may (or may not) be present in the Boot Sector and Partition Tables.
If that fails, then the drive has PHYSICAL issues, and is beyond any software utility restoration/repair effort.