How To Initialize A Hard Drive. Before you can access a new or formatted drive in your operating system, you need to initialize it first and then create a partition on the drive. But the hard drive should be initialized manually immediately since Windows will not do this automatically.
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Before you can access a new or formatted drive in your operating system, you need to initialize it first and then create a partition on the drive. How to Fix the Problem When Hard Drive External HDD Cannot Be Initialized? How to fix data from a hard drive that shows not initialized on Windows computer?