How can I initialize a hard drive not being recognized by Disk Management?

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I have an 80GB hard drive off an Ipod Classic, it's a Toshiba MK8022GAA. I had no use for the Ipod and I needed more storage so I bought an enclosure for it on Ebay, before purchasing it I asked ALL sellers if it was compatible with the specific drive, and I bought one that corresponded to the drive. I have tried formatting it with different OS's like Windows 7, XP, Ubuntu, GParted, but was unsuccessful. I was able to do a low level format, but it didn't help at all. I even tried formatting it with a USB loader for the Wii with WBFS Manager and still Disk Management won't initialize it. I am able to see the drive and its size but am unable to format it to work with windows

Any help is greatly appreciated!
 
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