Drive became "not initialized"

[Pete S]

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?

 

[Pete S]

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!

 

[RolandJS]

I hope you are making weekly or bi-monthly backups onto external media -- regardless of what else is happening.

 

[Snick]

4 Ways to Fix Disk Unknown Not Initialized in Windows 10/8/7

backup!