New HDD Not Recognized / Initialized
Jan 6, 2011
I already have multiple HDDs installed and, yesterday, added 3 new WD20EARS to the system. All three appeared to initialize correctly.
-After a reboot, only two of the new drives were recognized. In Disk Manager the third drive is/was listed as "disk not initialized".
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Tried re-initializing the drive multiple times and got a couple of different errors, "incorrect action" (or similar wording). At this point the system crashed.
-After a system restore, the third drive is not visible at all. The other two new drives seem to be operating normally.
System is an i3-540, Gigabyte GA 57M USB3, Ultimate 64.
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Jun 20, 2012
I have used a hard drive disk for 3 years or so and today when booting I see its not showing and I get a message from disk management that it is not initialized although as I say its been running perfectly all this time and was so reliable that I placed all my "needed program and file on it" ...sad eh If I right click to/and initialize will I loose all my data on the disk..? I see the disk in the management consul as 'disk one 'but with the message not initialized..can anyone help..I saw and saw an old thread but not sure if it the same thing..
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Its been a real pain as I have a lot of data init and unable to access it. [URL]
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Uninstall (all vc versions)
reboot 1
ccleaner
reboot 2
install (2005 & 2008 & 2010 x86/x64 versions)
reboot 3
windows-update
reboot 4
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