>>But why the failure after years of working?
Millions of reasons including willful and random act of God. Could be a bang, temperature, something electrical, bad disk block,anything really. Its a really tiny, tiny bit of damage. Might happen again next week, might never happen again.
Certainly it would be off my list of disks on which to keep vital, single copies of stuff. Fine for non-important stuff and copies of copies though.
>>Can it be formatted if it can't be seen to click on?
Go to where you found it marked as unallocated, which I assume was Disk Management.
Right click on the rectangle representing it, choose format.
Away you go.
Are you sure there's nothing on there you need? Because files can sometimes be recovered.
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