Windows 10: There is No “Initialize Disk” Option for My New SSD?

Discus and support There is No “Initialize Disk” Option for My New SSD? in Windows 10 Software and Apps to solve the problem; I’m setting up my friend’s new SSD, but I’m having trouble initializing it. It’s listed as Disk 0, is online, and is unallocated, but nevertheless the... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Software and Apps' started by Numbuh1Nerd, Apr 2, 2023.

  1. NUMBUH1NERD
    Numbuh1Nerd Win User

    There is No “Initialize Disk” Option for My New SSD?


    I’m setting up my friend’s new SSD, but I’m having trouble initializing it. It’s listed as Disk 0, is online, and is unallocated, but nevertheless the only options I get when I right-click it are to Convert to Dynamic Disk and Convert to MBR Disk. What’s going on here?

    :)
     
    Numbuh1Nerd, Apr 2, 2023
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  2. SANDRAMCGRAY
    SandraMcgray Win User

    SSD not initialized and unable to initialize

    There could be several reasons due to which ‘Disk Unknown Not Initialized’ error message may occur, which are mentioned as following:
    Corrupt/ Incompatible/Outdated Driver, MBR Corruption, Missing or lost partition, Bad Sectors in hard drive, Corrupt File System etc. To solve this problem we apply some fundamental manual steps like: update the device driver,
    Rebuild the MBR boot, initialized disk, assign a drive letter, Run CHKDSK command and Run diskpart utility.

    To initialized the disk go to Disk management > and locate the drive that not initialized > the drive will show unallocated. > select unallocated disk > Right click on it > click initialized disk > select
    between GPT > Click OK.

    Once the process is done, you will redirected to main windows and check you can access it or not.
     
    SandraMcgray, Apr 2, 2023
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  3. JMDAWN
    JMDawN Win User
    SSD not initialized and unable to initialize

    I have 3 disks on my desktop : 1 M.2 disk (boot disk) , 1 SSD drive and 1 HDD drive . Everything was working well until yesterday i was unable to access some files on the SSD drive . After restarting the computer the SSD drive doesn't appeared anymore
    .

    In disk management appears as "Disk 1 - Unknown - Not initialized" . When i click to initialize i got the error "A device which does not exist was specified." . What can be the cause of this ? How can i initialize the drive ?
     
    JMDawN, Apr 2, 2023
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  4. ARAMP1
    ARAMP1 Win User

    There is No “Initialize Disk” Option for My New SSD?

    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.
     
    ARAMP1, Apr 2, 2023
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