Windows 10: Strangest disk initialize problem I've ever seen!!! Please help

Hello All


This is pretty much the oddest thing I have ever seen. My friend is having the same problem on two different computers with Windows 10 Pro.


She has tried cloning the Crives to new Samsung SSD drives, using two different drives and two different Sabrent USB enclosures, one of which is brand new, with new a USB cable.


With each PC, when she attaches the enclosure cable to the computer, with the drives inserted, she doesn't see the drive in This PC It also doesn't show up using the Samsung Migration or Samsung Magician software. When she opens disk management, it says the drive is not initialized. It also says the drive is offline. If she tries to initialize using GUID or put the drive online, she gets the same error message, "Request failed due to a fatal device hardware error," with no error code or option to get additional info.


The Sabrent enclosures show up in Device Manager as working properly.


How can this be?


This is two different Windows laptops, a Dell and Thinkpad one is right out of the box.

Two different new Samsung SSD drives one a 500 gig and the other a TB

Two different Sabrent enclosures

Two different USB cables


For the Dell, which she had earlier, she also tried putting two older drives - a Toshiba and WD Blue that had been formatted - into the enclosure, and the computer didn't see those either. We thought it might have been that the enclosure was defective, that WD Blue and Toshiba drives simultaneously broke down, and that the new 500 gig Samsung drive also was defective, as coincidental as that may seem. But now that we have two of everything - including two laptops - none of that seems possible. She actually took that Dell and new Samsung drive to a computer repair shop, and they couldn't clone it either, using their own enclosure.


Sooooo... short of sending us to see Rod Serling or Alfred Hitchcock for those who remember them, can anyone suggest anything that makes a lick of sense? My friend is starting to think she has a bad aura or something. I've followed her through this over the phone, and she seems to be doing everything right. I've cloned Samsung drives many times, including with Sabrent enclosures, and have never seen anything like this.


Any thoughts before we call in a exorcist or a rubber truck :O


Thank you!


Anthony Giorgianni




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Unable to Initialize Disk

Thanks for the suggestions...

I was able to figure it out after A LOT of google searching.

First had to see what virtualdisks were listed then remove them.

Get-VirtualDisk

Remove-VirtualDisk -FriendlyName <name>

Then get and remove the storage pool

Get-StoragePool -FriendlyName "name"

Remove-StoragePool

After that, I was able to initialize like it was a new disk.

 

Disk management console view is not up-to-date

i dont know how to fix your disk management, but i can fix your partition problems...




open up Command Prompt with admin rights. (Right click, run as admin)


enter in
DISKPART
list disk

then find the Disk number for your Raid array... lets call it number 7 ( you can tell what disk is what by the total size)
type in

Select Disk 7
List Partition (will give you a list of all the partitions..)
Select Partition 1 (im assuming you only have 1 partition on Disk 7) repeat this step if you have more partitions.
ASSIGN


that should get the array up and running ready to use.


EDITED.

any problems, post back ^^


Still EDITING *Stick Out Tongue

side question, have you tried restarting the PC?

 

Overclocking / Undervolting guide for Vega 56 or 64?

Here's a quick laundry list:

List of software to use for overclocking and testing
Examples:
Wattman (and how to find and use it, like an overview, including profiles)
Unigine Valley or Heaven (use this for quick testing while changing settings in Wattman and checking for stability / artifacts) ...just suggesting this
How to monitor cores / mem speeds and temps during testing (I've seen screen overlays, and others using GPUz)

Step-by step overclocking in Wattman
Fan speeds
Power limit
Temp limit
Voltages
Core speeds
Memory speeds