Windows 10: Unable to Initialize Disk

Discus and support Unable to Initialize Disk in Windows 10 Drivers and Hardware to solve the problem; I have a 4TB harddrive. I was using it in a storage pool with another 4TB harddrive. I've moved the disks around and no longer want them in a pool.... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Drivers and Hardware' started by ARAMP1, Sep 8, 2020.

  1. ARAMP1 Win User

    Unable to Initialize Disk


    I have a 4TB harddrive. I was using it in a storage pool with another 4TB harddrive. I've moved the disks around and no longer want them in a pool. Unfortunately, one of the 4TB drives shows up as the old 8TB pool in Disk Management. I'm unable to initialize, format or delete the volume.

    In Storage Spaces, where I would make or delete the pools, It shows that there's something wrong, but it doesn't show the drive.

    It doesn't show up at all in diskpart > list disk

    I've moved the drive over to another windows 10 machine with the same results.

    Any ideas?

    - - - Updated - - -

    Update, it now shows up in diskpart but as the 8TB drive.

    :)
     
    ARAMP1, Sep 8, 2020
    #1

  2. 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    Corrupt/ Incompatible/Outdated Driver, MBR Corruption, Missing or lost partition, Bad Sectors in hard drive, Corrupt File System etc.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, Sep 8, 2020
    #2
  3. 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, Sep 8, 2020
    #3
  4. topgundcp Win User

    Unable to Initialize Disk

    Cannot Format HD


    Need to initialize it as GPT disk type with HD > 2TB:
    From Admin command prompt:
    1. diskpart
    2. list disk =====> Take a note of disk # for the 4TB HD
    3. select disk # ====> From step 2
    4. clean
    5. exit
    Open Disk Management and initialize the disk as GPT, create simple then format.
     
    topgundcp, Sep 8, 2020
    #4
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