External HD shows intialize message even when it was working

Hi There,
I have 250GB external HD which I bought around 6-7 months back. I was using it till last month. I haven't used it since then for around 30 days and today I wanted to use, I get a message that the HD is not "in readable" format for MAC OS X and asks me to initialize.
When clicked on initialize and used "Erase" option from disk utility it does not zero out data for long time. It never reduced the time remaining to zero out data from14hrs and never updated the progress bar.
Can someone suggest me what could be wrong here?
Thanks,
Brilty

yeah i tried... looks like the HD has gone bad. I gotta get it checked from a service center.

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