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Gaming Smartphones Tablets Windows 8 PSUs Android Your question Get the answer Tom's Hardware>Forum>Storage>Unable to Initialize HDD> Solved Unable to Initialize HDD Tags: Hard Drives External Hard Drive Storage Last response: 15 August 2013 17:14 in Storage Share Chattermouth 28 May 2009 14:49:26 Hi. So I bought cannot initialize disk device not ready a new HDD, a Samsung HD753LJ. When swapping it with my old one, the computer can't initialize disk windows 7 didn't work. When adding my old HDD, the old one worked and the new one could not be found. Some time later I've gotten hard drive not initialized in disk management my hands on a HDD Dock where I can connect regular HDD's to the PC via USB. I saw drivers install, and I think I saw external HDD there. I guess the dock makes it an external HDD. Anyways, now cannot initialize disk cyclic redundancy check I can see the HDD in Disk Management, but it is "Not Initialized". When I attempt to initialize it, an error message states "The device is not ready". Does anyone have any ideas how I proceed from here? Anyone know any HDD recovery software that can find a HDD without a drive letter? More about : unable initialize hdd Best solution dallasjoh 29 May 2009 01:20:38 RMA time!! I had the same problem with a WDC HDD and tried everything
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to get it to initialize but no luck. Send it back for a replacement. Share Paperdoc a c 464 G Storage 29 May 2009 01:35:44 ANY blank new hard drive needs a two-step process to prepare it for use by Windows. I can be done in Windows' Disk Manager. They are Partitioning (create a defined space on the drive to be used) and Formatting (create the root directory and sector allocation tracking structures). Read up on these. Many (including me) have posted detailed instructions here before. Even easier, most HDD makers provide free software utilities for exactly these purposes, because they know every purchaser will need to carry out these operations. If you did not get a CD of tools with the drive, go to the maker's website and look around the Downloads section for them. Seagate provides Disk Wizard, WD provides Data Lifeguard, and I don't know what Samsung has. These usually are multiple tools in one package, but preparing the disk for first use in Windows is in there. Some of the packages are restricted to operations only on drives from that maker; others may work on any drive. Many (in these utility packages or others) also provide a cloning tool so you can move ALL of your files from your old drive to a new larger one and make it your boot drive, so you can remove the old drive or simply re-Partition and
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external HDD that fails to initialize? It gives data error (cyclic redundancy check) each time I try to fix it.UpdateCancelAnswer Wiki15 Answers Michael Daniel, PC https://www.quora.com/How-can-you-fix-an-external-HDD-that-fails-to-initialize-It-gives-data-error-cyclic-redundancy-check-each-time-I-try-to-fix-it Builder, User and Hacker since the 8-bit days.Written 13w agoThanks for A2A.If you cannot get into the drive with your chosen OS, a recovery utility (easily downloadable) may be able to copy any important data from the drive.Once you’ve reached a point where the drive is sacrificial, you could try re-partitioning and reformatting.If the drive still returns the same error, it hard drive is physically faulty and due for replacement.8.6k Views · View Upvotes · Answer requested by Sathish JukantiRelated QuestionsMore Answers BelowHow do I fix a data (cyclic redundancy check) external hard drive error?How do I repair a hard disc's cyclic redundancy error in Windows 8?Hard Disk Drives (HDD): How to fix this without wiping partitions table or losing my data: "fatal error: bad device not ready primary partition 3 partition end...What is the way to format a disk with cyclic redundancy error?Is there anyway to fix an external hard drive error for my gaming system without losing data? John RobertsonWritten 108w agoAs the saying goes Avodeji , with difficulty. The problem you describe is not uncommon. Sometimes it can be fixed and sometimes it can’t. It depends on the details. If you have another copy of the data on the external drive and a Broadband connection then my inclination would be to get rid of the external hard disk and to back up your files in the Cloud – probably Dropbox. There are various other effective Cloud systems.If you have another copy of the data but no Broadband then I’d get a new external drive. A single faulty sector on your present drive can cause the problem you describe. It shouldn’t but it can.If you have important data on the external drive and have no other copy then the solution is harder. There may not be a solution. I hope that is not the case for you. If