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Right-click the target disk - HDD or SSD and select "Initialize to MBR" or "Initialize to GPT".

Open EaseUS Partition Master and got to Partition Manager. Hope it can help you and you can also share this page to other people in need. Next, we will discuss three ways to initialize SSD/HDD. Sometimes, if a hard disk or SSD is not initialized into MBR or GPT, the system may warn you with an error message "You must initialize a disk before Logical Disk Manager can access it". Logical Disk Manager cannot access a disk since it's not initialized.This problem can occur to all Windows systems, including Windows 10/8/7, and the only way is to fix 'disk not initialized' error. You have to initialize it so as to make it detectable and work for storing data.Īn error message such as " Disk 0 is unknown, not initialized, unallocated" may pop up if you try to open a solid-state disk or hard disk drive. When a brand new SSD or HDD is plugged into PC, you may meet an " SSD not showing up in Disk Management/This PC/Computer" error immediately. Why You Need to Initialize Hard Drive/SSDĪre you having a similar problem with your SSD or HDD that the disk drive is not responding or stay with an unallocated condition? Do you know why the system keeps asking you or forcing you to initialize HDD/SSD? Here below are the reasons and causes that you are in and why you have to initialize a hard drive or an SSD: How to Initialize SSD/HDD in Windows 10/8/7 (3 Ways) It keeps asking me to initialize the disk with an error message " Disk Unknown is not initialized". "Hi there, do you know how to initialize a new SSD in PC? I recently bought a new SSD, and I added to my computer, but it won't allow me to create a new partition.
