Hi, I have acquired a “purple” (Surveillance hard drive) western digital 2 T hard drive .

I want to format it using my raspi but I do not have the permission to get beyond the cache. I would like to drop to sudo su command line but I am unsure what utilities I can call to wipe and format.

This drive was from a broken Lorex surveillance system owned by my friend who owns a hardware store. I want to repurpose it to the rasp. I am using my universal adapter kit to fire it up and read the directories but the 2020 video library is basically the whole disk. Gotta get rid of it.

Any insight is appreciated.

Rich, ve3DCC