
Electrical failure, virus intrusion, abrupt power supply, bad platter area, hard drive crashed, corrupt file system, accidental deletion of files etc. Since the early days of computers, it has been the dominant and the most preferred storage device for data, and with each passing day, more and more features are added to it.Īs you are familiar with the advantages of the hard disk, you may have heard of hard disk errors as well. With its introduction, we are now able to carry heaps of information and can transfer that in one go. The hard drive has changed the dynamics of storage media. This Blog post addresses all the issues related to hard drive uninitialized/unknown and tells what should be the best course of action towards a hard drive recovery. I just need to retrieve the files in the Hard disk as it contains important files and pictures that havent been backed up.How to Recover Data from an Uninitialized Hard Drive? I tried running Partition Recovery Wizard on the mentioned HDD and it shows a partition of only 512 Bytes but none of my files are visible (no preview)

It shows bad disk on the particular hard disk I have Partition Wizard 9.1 and the attached picture below is the screenshot of the main GUI. When i right click on the HDD, there are four functions: Initialize Disk, Offline, Properties and Help however the the Initialize Disk function is greyed out. I also ran disk part and it shows Disk 3 and Disk 4 as both online but both having size of 0 Bīelow is the screen shot of Disk Management. I have also tried using a powered USB cable and also connected in directly to the MoBo via SATA but the problem still persist.

Virtual Disk Manager: The device is not ready. Virtual Disk Manager: Incorrect FunctionĢ. Disk Management tried to initialized the hard disk and it pops out the following errors:ġ. When opening Disk Management it says the disk is not initialized and it didnt state how many GB available on the hard disk (unallocated). I have a internal 3.5" HDD WD Black 2 TB and try to hook it up in the PC but it doesnt not appear anymore in My Computer.
