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Discus and support Initialize any external HDD on Windows 10 in Windows 10 Drivers and Hardware to solve the problem; Hello,I cannot initialize any external hard disk drive on Windows 10, but the flash drive works without problems. The hard disk drive works without a... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Drivers and Hardware' started by Peteryaho, Nov 29, 2022.

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    Initialize any external HDD on Windows 10


    Hello,I cannot initialize any external hard disk drive on Windows 10, but the flash drive works without problems. The hard disk drive works without a problem on another PC with Windows 10.The problem started to appear when I attached a VHDX disk and set the Windows Boot manager to boot dual windows 10 first win10 as a standard and second win10 as a VHDX virtual disk. The boot loader works without problems, both systems run OK except this problem.The mentioned external hard drive can be seen in the Device manager - see photo 1,but it is not visible in disk management - see photo 2,DISKPART li

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