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Yes, I suppose we know a bit more now.
I have the same idea, Icit2lol, I think the question asked here is how he can initialize his hard drive?
Here's where the confusion came from; MrVenJhay said the 500GB drive was external, when in reality it's internal and it's the boot drive. Below it, above the DVD-RAM, there's another hard drive that can't be listed correctly as it's model can't be detected at this point.
That makes two internal hard drives at this point, the second one, the Unknown, being around 2TB. @ MrVenJhay, can you tell us the model of the second hard drive? Is it new, or do you have information on it? If you have information on it and you don't want to lose it, tell us up front and don't do what's written below!
The drive has to be initialized, but it says it's write protected, so before all, he has to first remove the write protection from the device.
This could happen so:
1. Open Command prompt: click Start, type command, click Command Prompt
2. Type "diskpart" and press Enter
3. Type "list volume" and press Enter
4. Type select volume #, where # is the number of the drive that's giving you the "write-protected" error
5. Type "attributes disk clear readonly" and press Enter
6. Type "exit" and press Enter
These steps should make the drive read and write enabled. Then it can be Initialized, Partitioned and Formatted, like already explained. :)
Icit2lol, do you see anything else?
Cheers!
CK_WD