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Gaming Smartphones Tablets Windows 8 PSUs Android Your question Get the answer Tom's Hardware>Forum>Storage>WD External 1TB drive shows "device not ready"> Solved WD External 1TB drive shows "device not ready" Tags: Western Digital Storage Devices Last response: 17 August external hard drive device not ready 2015 08:35 in Storage Share Kiernanjp 16 August 2015 14:54:38 I have a WD the device is not ready command prompt 1TB External ULTRA Drive. Prior to yesterday, it worked fine on my laptop running Windows 7. Last night I attached it to hard drive not initialized in disk management my SMART TV, thinking it would be accessible there. It was not. Since then, when I re-attach it to my laptop, the indicator light on the drive stays solid, is NOT recognized by Windows Explorer So external hard drive troubleshooter for windows 7 and vista far I have tried these options: DISK Manager sees is as a device but its UNALLOCATED. When I try to initialize it, it comes back with DEVICE NOT READY. DEVICE MANAGER sees the drive ok. For whatever reason hooking it up to the TV somehow screwed something up. I have done numerous reboots, power off, several utilities from MS and WD all to no avail. NOTE I DO NOT have access to
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any other computers. I assume the cable is fine because although Windows Explorer won't mount it, the other utilities see it, but do not know what it is. More about : external 1tb drive shows device ready Best solution SuperSoph_WD a c 1764 G Storage 17 August 2015 08:35:43 Welcome to the community, Kiernanjp! I'm sorry to hear about your WD Passport Ultra drive. Unfortunately, sometimes connecting the external to a different operating system or device (like your Smart TV) messes up the file system. However, I'd suggest you to try uninstalling and re-installing the WD Passport from Device Manager ( http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc725782.asp... ) After a reboot, plug and play the external and wait until it installs the utilities again. Another thing you can try is assigning a different drive letter to the HDD through Disk Management. Here's a tutorial from our KB that explains how to do that: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=esHghV Keep me posted! Hope it helps though. SuperSoph_WD Share Can't find your answer ? Ask ! Publish Related resources SolvedMy 1TB WD external hard drive is not showing up under MY PC. Device manager is showing it but I can't access it. Can you help? Forum Hi I can see my wd 1TB external drive in device manager but not on my computer Forum my w
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 a
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new HDD, a Samsung HD753LJ. When swapping it with my old one, the computer didn't work. can't initialize disk windows 7 When adding my old HDD, the old one worked and the new one could not be found. Some time later I've gotten my hands wd provides data lifeguard 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 I can see http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2766627/external-1tb-drive-shows-device-ready.html 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 to get it to http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/250083-32-unable-initialize 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 Format it for use for data. m
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