How to format write protected Hard Drive

Hello,
i just got this disk drive and my computer automatically said it needed to be formatted when it was plugged in. I started formatting it and then after quite a few hours it said disk is write protected.... so went to command prompt and it went as follows



Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.10586]
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C:\WINDOWS\system32>DISKPART

Microsoft DiskPart version 10.0.10586

Copyright (C) 1999-2013 Microsoft Corporation.
On computer: JESSICAPC

DISKPART> LIST DISK

Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
-------- ------------- ------- ------- --- ---
Disk 0 Online 931 GB 0 B *
Disk 1 Online 917 GB 0 B

DISKPART> SELECT DISK 1

Disk 1 is now the selected disk.

DISKPART> ATTRIBUTES DISK
Current Read-only State : Yes
Read-only : No
Boot Disk : No
Pagefile Disk : No
Hibernation File Disk : No
Crashdump Disk : No
Clustered Disk : No

DISKPART> ATTRIBUTES DISK CLEAR READONLY

Disk attributes cleared successfully.

DISKPART> CLEAN

DiskPart has encountered an error: The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error.
See the System Event Log for more information.



Please help!!