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How do I initialize my WD Passport?

05/08/202205/08/2022| Shirley GriffinShirley Griffin| 0 Comment | 12:00 AM
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How do I initialize my WD Passport?

● Fix 1: initialize WD drive in Disk Management

  1. Right click the “This PC” icon on the desktop and hit the “Manage” option.
  2. Right click on the WD drive that needs initializing and select “Initialize Disk”.
  3. Follow the wizard to initialize the WD drive as MBR or GPT disk.

How do I initialize an unallocated disk?

How to Initialize Disk?

  1. Step 1: Right-click This PC from your desktop and go to Manage > Disk Management.
  2. Step 2: Right-click the Disk that says “Not Initialized” and click on Initialize Disk to make it working again.
  3. Step 3: In the “Initialize Disk” windows, you need to pick MBR or GPT as partition style for the Disk.

What does not initialized mean?

The “Disk unknown not initialized” error most commonly occurs when you try to install or connect an internal/external hard drive to your PC. We tend to store a lot of data on our disk drives, and seeing this error pop on the screen is nothing but a nightmare.

How to fix disk not initialized problem on Windows 10?

Solution 1: Use Diskpart to Resolve the Problem. Using Diskpart properly can help you resolve almost any hard drive problem as long as you use it carefully.

  • Solution 2: Clear the CMOS Battery.
  • Solution 3: Update Disk Drivers.

    • How to fix external hard drive not initialized?

    Connect the uninitialized external hard drive,HDD or other storage devices to your PC.

  • Press Win+R keys to bring up Run,and 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 the disk as MBR or GPT.

    • How you can initialize disk without losing data?

    Preparation: recover data from “Unknown and Not Initialized” disk. To recover data from a damaged disk,you can try RecoveritPro,which is a reliable data recovery tool with 96% recovery

  • Method 1. Initialize disk MBR to GPT in Disk Management.
  • Method 2. Initialize disk MBR or GPT with AOMEI Partition Assistant.
  • Method 3.
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  • Method 5.
  • Method 6.

    • How to fix disk unknown not initialized error?

    Initialize the hard drive

  • Recover data from the disk and create new volumes
  • Partition and format the disk to make it ready for data storage