External H D was NTFS now it is 'RAW' WHAT TO DO?

Question

I have a Western Digital 2T External HD. It "pooped-out" some time ago but being always hopeful I keep it connected to my computer. It continually says the drive must be formatted . . . it took me a long time to reconcile myself to the fact
that I would have to let all of my information (almost the full 2T!) go - it is lost to me! So when I finally clicked the ok go ahead FORMAT button the stupid thing will not or cannot be formatted. Tonight it appears to have changed to RAW. HOW can I reformat
this "machine" I DO NOT need to retrieve ANY info from it! I just want to be able to use this external hard drive once more. DOES ANY ONE HAVE ANY SUGGESTIONS ‽
PLEASE !!!
Maybe I should add my computer recognizes this hard drive as Local Disk (F:) it used to be recognized as My Book (F:) AND I also have another identical WD 2T External HDD which works
perfectly – KNOCK ON WOOD !!! named My Book (D:)

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