Disk Utility hung up & disk won't eject

I'm going to try to keep this as brief as I can but I did a lot of things wrong. I had a Time Machine backup drive that I believe got corrupted. I reset Time Machine by turning it off and deleted the com.apple.TimeMachine.plist file. I then tried to erase/reformat the backup drive. The erase began okay then slowed so much that I could hardly tell whether there'd been any progress after a couple of hours. I eventually forced Disk Utility to quit. After restarting the system, I then restarted Disk Utility and tried the erase again (I checked the secure options and none of them were checked). This time, it proceeded much better. I then had a problem when I tried to get a new Time Machine backup going. It froze for over an hour with only 37.5 MB out of 105 GB completed. I used Activity Monitor to stop backupd and then shut down the system. It never completely shut down until I forced it. Now, I've restarted the system and reconnected the backup drive. It appears to be okay. However, I can't eject it. I then launched Disk Utility to verify/repair it, if necessary. Disk Utility is hung up trying to populate the volume list and I don't know how to proceed from here.

Király wrote:
Run Disk utility on your main hard drive.
I verified it with no errors. I'm going to try to reformat the external drive with our PC. I'm not sure that I want to try reconnecting it to this machine. With the DU freeze and inability to eject, I force quit DU and then shut down. However, it wouldn't completely shut down. I then disconnected the external drive and that caused my screen to be shaded dark gray with a message that I had to force shut down with the power key (is that what a kernel panic looks like now?).

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