Drive became "not initialized"


  1. Pete S
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    Drive became "not initialized"


    This morning my system would not boot, after doing some diagnostics I discovered that one of my drives (Drive 0) shows up as NOT INITIALIZED. When I shut my PC down last night the drive was working fine.

    I left it alone this morning because I have data on this drive that I want to recover. Is it possible to recover the data? What is the best way to do it?
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  3. Pete S
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    Well looks like I solved my own problem by uninstalling the drive in the Device Manager, and rebooting the system. The drive showed up again as before with all it's data intact.
    GO FIGURE!
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  4. RolandJS
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    I hope you are making weekly or bi-monthly backups onto external media -- regardless of what else is happening.
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  6. Snick
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    Win 10 x64, Linux Lite, Win 7 x64, BlackArch, & Kali
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    4 Ways to Fix Disk Unknown Not Initialized in Windows 10/8/7

    backup!
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