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Disk 1 Unknown Not Initialized External Hard Drive Mode
Most people here are either trying to get help, or trying to help. Give people the benefit of the doubt whenever possible. Whenever there is “ disk unknown not initialized” issue occurs, your hard drive may show unallocated space in Disk Management, and the data on which will be inaccessible or else there is another situation: there is no disk space shown in Disk Management.There are a few possible reasons behind hard disk not initialized as below:.File system corruption.Virus infection.Bad blocks and sectors.MBR damage.Connection problem.You can give a try to below mentioned 2 different methods to resolve the issue:Method 1. Use Disk Management to fix not initialized error on external hard drive.Connect uninitialized external hard drive to your PC.Press Win + R keys, type: diskmgmt.msc and hit Enter.Find the uninitialized, unknown external hard drive with I/O device error Right-click on it and select Initialize Disk.Then set the disk to initialize and set disk as MBR or GPT.After this, you may reboot your PC and keep all changes. Now, your external hard drive will be recognized and read by Windows again.Method 2.
Trying to repair laptop hard drive - Disk unknown not initialized. External SATA drive does not work without the optional USB cable.also. connected. UATA hard disk and IDE/SATA to USB bridge. If I partition a drive connected via eSata will it show different partitions when connected via USB?
Hello,I am unable to access files in my USB HDD after a few minutes of operating it. If I try playing a movie, it will run smoothly for around 5 min max and then gets stuck.
If I close that and try to access files anywhere in the drive, nothing will be there. Sometimes I can view the folders but not files within it. An error message 'Delayed Write Failed' appears near the system tray (where the date is displayed).I have used this device on several computers.
I think it got infected by some virus or so.Can anyone suggest a remedy for this. I do a lot of personal work on my computer at work, searching the internet and downloading stuff.I've had problems with USB flashdrives from time to time not showing up as a storage drive in My Computer, while if you go to:Control Panel / System / Hardware / Device Manager / USB Controllersthe device is listed as present and working.When that's the situation, it sometimes works to disable the device, unplug the USB drive from the computer, and then plug it back in. (You might have to go back to USB Controllers and re-enable the device.)Anyway, I just had a problem with a hard drive plugged into a Vantec Hard Drive Docking station that was plugged into a USB port.
Again, the hard drive was present in Device Manager under Disk Drives, and USB mass storage controller.I was able to enable this hard drive by re-assigning a new Drive Letter to the drive:Control Panel / Administrative Tools / Computer Management / Storage / Disk ManagementIf the drive appears in the list select, click to highlight the appropriate drive.From the Menu Bar select: ActionA drop down list opens and select: All TasksChange Drive Letter and PathsIn the box, select a new letter to assign to the drive, and then click OK, and exit.