Auto change drive letter and format

Hello,
After much searching I decided to post a question here. Currently looking to automate the backup process my company has in place.
Here is a little bit about the backup process:
Every day we use Veeam backup to backup several VM servers to a SAN.
Then the data is copied to an external eSata disk drive to complete a disk to disk backup via Cobian Backup 11.
Each day a new 4TB esata is plugged into a Windows Server 2008 R2 physical server running the backup utilities.
I'm looking to automate this process. I'd like to use windows scripting or powershell to automatically change the drive letter and path to a specific drive letter when the drive is connected and then a command to format the drive as well so that it is ready to use. Anyone have any thoughts?
Thanks,
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