Drive Wiper stuck at 0%

Hello! Last night I tried to do a 3 pass wipe of my external HDD, it was stuck at 0% for a while so I canceled it and did a 1 pass. My computer got shut down before the wipe could complete (have a whole bunch of temp files in the root which I manually deleted, most of the data is still there though). Now I'm trying to do either a 1 pass or a 3 pass and both are stuck at 0% "Erasing F:\ 0%". I can see my HDD lights up for a few minutes when I start the wipe, but after that it becomes inactive again and nothing happens. Any possible solutions?