Help formatting external hard drive

[Kotnirid]

I received an Acomdata 2Tb external hard drive today from Amazon and plugged it in. Time Machine popped up and I declined to link the hard drive to it. I went into Disk Utility and chose the new hard drive on the left column and went to erase. I chose Mac OS Extended. I named it and hit erase. It started going, and going..... and going... and a half an hour later I knew something was wrong. Disk Utility was not responding and I eventually had to Force Quit. Now I cannot format the hard drive. I starts and then it stops with a disk error. I tried to run the First Aid verify and repair and both stopped after a few seconds with an error. What do I do?

 

[oneEG6]

Try partitioning it (one partition is fine) and make sure the setting for GUID is checked. (assuming your on an Intel machine.

 

[Kotnirid]

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! It totally worked! Muah!

 

[yoak]

The GUID part is important. For some silly reason, default is NOT GUID. I went to the shop thinking my disk was bad, they said it was ok. I read the post here and figured out it.
Don´t understand why GUID is not default on Intel Macs