Acquired an external Drive purely for the sole purpose of backing up data in the event of PC going down.
First of all I tried to format the drive but when I try to backup data I recve a msg saying that disk in the drive is not formatted.
On another occasion I rcve msg saying that windows was unable to complete the format.
I also recve msg saying that disk in drive cannot be formatted.

To put it mildly I am very confused and wonder if anyone can provide me with a solution which might resolve the above mentioned problems

Thanks