How to Initialize a New Hard Drive in Windows 10

Walk through of how to initialize a hard drive in Windows 10.

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[chopperwitz]

Excellent, thank you, both entertaining and informative. I initialized a new Samsung 970 EVO and followed you step by step, it went exactly as you said. Great help!

[wilkanomics]

Thank you. This helped a lot. I had that same ‘Where’s my drive?!’ moment.

[lloydchristmas]

I followed this video to initialize my my SSD TB drive. Interestingly, I found no mention of this must in the product ad, packaging, nor reviews (maybe I didn't look hard enough). It's like a strange little secret. Thanks a lot.

[Roxxelana]

I built my new gaming machine today and this video thankfully fixed the only issue I had, I thought I was dealing with faulty cables until I checked the Device Manager!

I'm a first time Windows 10 installer, I've got Win10 on my laptop... really not a fan, I already miss Windows 7. Thank you for the help!

[kombokenji]

Thank you so much, you made my life so much easier with the video that I needed for my brand new gaming pc

[schralepin]

Thank you for the quick and knowledgeable video. Currently at 8% so I will be taking a break for awhile. Finally have enough room for all of my coursework programs and files now. No more deleting games to save big projects for me. Damn I wish I would have bought a new ssd a long time ago... Thanks again!

[granthoward]

Quick and to that point! Great video, thank you.

[cdzeus]

Thanks a bunch! I appreciate the tutorial

[ninamussic]

Thank you so much, very well explained

[sarojsharma]

When I click on "ok" for the initialize process, it says " data error( cyclic redundance check) . Please help

[ardead]

This didn't help me at all because idk what happened I cant initialize it and its unknown and when i try both it says
GPT: The specified disk is not convertible because the size is less than the minimal size required for GPT disks(its 500GB)
MBR: The request failed due to a fatal device hardware error.
Thanks for trying though

[kanicakwatra]

After initialising error message appears " the specified disk is not convertible bcoz d size is less than the minimum size required for got disks"
Also my HD is 2 TB
Nd it shows 0bytes in diakpart in command prompt

[kinglegginc]

what do I do if after I click on new volume it tells me not enough space

[Hastymatic]

My disk doesn't show the size of the disk. it doesn't bring the 'Initialize disk' option. kindly help

[Socialmediachat]

Good evening am I going to loose all my work ?

[themallimalli]

Thank you! It's currently formatting, but otherwise it did everything right :D
Let's hope it works!

[atiefibrahim]

When i click okay on "MBR and GPT" window it says Data error(cyclic redundancy check) how do i solve it?

[jh_itech]

Thank you it really works! i saw in another's video that he choose the first setting so it didn't work for me but you save my life. I LOVE YOU

[heltunikt]

Very helpful video - thanks! Am I the only one who got reminded of Clint Eastwood when listening to you speak?

[meeppeem]

For me when I click GPT or the other or ... it says that the device is not ready for this ? What do I do ?