How to Fix External Hard Drive Not Initialized

welcome to lma we are here to share tech knowledge with you let's get our journey started today we are going to talk about how to fix external hard drive not initialized we have two parts in this video part situation 1 not initialized unallocated space part 2 situation 2 not initialized no disk space i have a hard drive and i haven't used it for a long time when i connected to the computer it was shown as not initialized now i'm going to fix this if you have some problem with your hard drive you can't miss this video let's turn to part one to see the first situation if your desk is in this situation you can fix it with two methods method one lma partition assistant without me partition assistant you can rebuild your mbr and effects disk not initialized issue and it won't cause any data loss just google alma partition assistant download and install it click on the partition assistant and get into the interface of it here you can see your desks and their information clearly if your desk mbr is corrupted as i mentioned above you need to rebuild it here you can see my disk 3 shows not initialized unallocated space give that to ome partition assistant click your desk here is disk 3 and click rebuild mbr in this pop-up window choose your system here i choose windows 10 as an example and click ok and click apply click proceed after that your hard drive can be shown normally method 2 disk management and disk part if method one is not working for your situation you can directly use these two tools to initialize it but it will cause the data loss here are the detailed steps the first tool is disk management type windows and r to open the rom box next we input disk mgmt.msc to get into disk management here you can see your desks and their information we can see disk 3 is shown as not initialized and it has unallocated space we right click on it and select initialize disk in this pop-up window we can choose to initialize it to mbr or gpt it's according to your situation i choose mbr here and click ok it gets back to normal now if you receive an error saying the request could not be completed because of the input or output device error like this when you click initialize disk this error is possibly caused by the connection problem you can use another cable to connect the external hard drive if possible connect it to another working computer and try it again the second tool is this part type windows editor to open the round box next we input this part to get into it remember to press enter after each command type list disk all your disks are shown here disk 3 is not initialized so i choose it input select disk 3 and input attributes disk clear read only [Music] type online disk then the disk is successfully online if you want to convert mbr or gpt you can keep typing convert npr or convert gpt depending on your situation i comfort mbr here now we made it let's go to part 2 to see another situation if your desk is in this situation you need to check your desk first to see if there is a physical error if there is nothing bad of the desk you can turn up the pc disconnect the hard drive for a while and turn on the computer then shut down the computer reconnect the hard drive to your pc and erase other pc to see if the disk can be shown normally if it is not working you can try the two methods below method 1 go check whether your driver is outdated if so you need to upgrade the outdated driver here are the detailed steps right click stop button select device manager from the list click disk drivers right click the hard drive select update driver select search automatically for updated driver software after that it would be worked method 2 if your hard drive's problems still can be fixed after these operations you need to check if there are bad sectors or it is physically broken you can use lma partition assistant to do this get into army partitioning system first right click your desk and choose surface test in this pop-up window click quick check and click start to execute it then the bad sectors and other information will show up that is all about how to fix external hard drive not initialized how you can get what you need after watching this video want to know more about aomae looking for more tech knowledge just subscribe us and leave comments we are here to help you with any questions

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Length: 6min 20sec (380 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 07 2021