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To fix a disk from turning into"Not Initialized" in such a case, you can initialize the disk directly.

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How to Fix Disk Unknown Not Initialized in Windows 11/10/8/7ĭepending on your situation, you may have to use an appropriate solution for "disk not initialized" issue on your computer, be it a local hard drive or external hard drive.
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However, if your disk 1, disk 2, or another disk becomes "Not Initialized" without any details about the disk storage, the causes are connection issues, disk driver issues, and physical corruption on the disk. Thus, when it is corrupted, you will certainly encounter issues, including disk showing as "Not Initialized". It provides information on loading Windows and on the partition of the disk. MBR, which stands for Master Boot Record, is the first sector on an MBR or GPT disk. If "disk unknown not initialized" is accompanied by "unallocated", the likely cause is MBR corruption on the hard drive. When the issue occurs, your external hard drive may show "unallocated space" or nothing about the disk capacity in Disk Management (as shown in the image below), so you are not able to open and access the data on this disk.Īlthough the disk shows "Unknow, Not Initialized" in both situations, they present different information about the capacity of the hard drive, which means they are caused by different reasons. Like the case above, "Disk Unknown Not Initialized" issue usually occurs unexpectedly in all the Windows version, including Windows 11/10/8/7, and it annoys users. Does anyone know how to recover data when a hard drive is not initialized or how to initialize disk without losing data?" Symptoms Also when I went into system tools it said that disk 1 is unknown, not initialized, unallocated. "When I plugged in my external hard drive, Western Digital My Passport 0740 (500GB), PC said that it's successfully installed however it did not appear on My Computer.
#Updating boot partitions as required on my passport wd for mac failed cant mount manual
Send for Manual Repair Disk 1 Is Unknown, Not Initialized, Unallocated Recover Data from Hard Drive and Create New Volumes Solution 3. ** The volume could not be verified HELP!!!PAGE CONTENT: Solution 1. ** The volume could not be verified completely.ĭebbies-MacBook-Air:~ debbiedavid$ sudo fsck_hfs -fy /dev/disk2s1 Updating boot support partitions for the volume as requiredĭebbies-MacBook-Air:~ debbiedavid$ sudo fsck_hfs /dev/disk2s1Įxecuting fsck_hfs (version hfs-366.70.1). Started file system repair on disk2s1 Elements Unable to repair this whole disk: A GUID Partition Table (GPT) partitioning scheme is required (-69773)ĭebbies-MacBook-Air:~ debbiedavid$ diskutil repairVolume disk2s1 The volume could not be verified completelyĭebbies-MacBook-Air:~ debbiedavid$ diskutil repairDisk disk2
#Updating boot partitions as required on my passport wd for mac failed cant mount verification
Started file system verification on disk2s1 Elements Unable to verify this whole disk: A GUID Partition Table (GPT) partitioning scheme is required (-69773)ĭebbies-MacBook-Air:~ debbiedavid$ diskutil verifyVolume disk2s1 ** The volume AIMS Ext was repaired successfully.ĭebbies-MacBook-Air:~ debbiedavid$ diskutil verifyDisk disk2 ** Checking upper case translation table. In Single User I used sbin/fsck_exfat /dev/disk2 but I had no luck If the volume is damaged, try the "readOnly" option Underlying error: 8: POSIX reports: Exec format error Started file system verification on disk2s2Įrror: -69845: File system verify or repair failed Started partition map verification on disk2Ĭhecking the EFI system partition's file systemĬhecking the EFI system partition's folder contentĬhecking all HFS data partition loader spacesĬhecking Core Storage Physical Volume partitionsįinished partition map verification on disk2 The original drive is 4TB and was formatted in ExFat. I've been trying to mount it or verify it with Terminal as well as Single User Mode fsck -fy. Ever since I can't have access to my drive anymore. MacBook's battery drained and therefore the drive was "not properly disconnected". A few days ago I left an external hard drive connected to my MacBook.
