Ok so this may or may not work, just a fix that worked for me!
Open up terminal (I was using Parted Magic) and type:
ps -ef | egrep "dosfsck|ntfs"
copy the line:
ntfsresize --info --force --no-progress-bar /dev/sd##
and run it in the CLI.
This stopped Gparted from searching partitions and showed my new disk drive. I then deleted everything and created new Partition table and formatted NTFS.
