Partitioning secondary internal hard drive failure Looks like my 2nd HDD became a brick. I tried to partition it via Disk Utilities/booted from recovery partition/diskutil to no luck!

I got vague/strange errors such as: unable to unmount, or:

Partition failed with the error:
Wiping volume data to prevent future accidental probing failed.


Is there any way to force the partition process, or somehow revive the hard drive??
I've struggled for some days with the same problem but now it is solved. The problem was a faulty SATA cable. I've replaced it with a new one and now everything works as expected.