Disk 1 unknown not initialized FIX

#disk1unknown #ssdnotinitialize #harddiskunknown
This video is all about the issue Disk 1 unknown not initialize whenever you connect your ssd, hdd or pen drive with your system. The ssd doesnt show up or in the computer management it is shown the error "Disk 1 unknown" or "disk 1 not initialize"
I have cover up all the major steps to fix disk 1 unknown issue and then how you can recover the data if you arent able to fix the ssd or pen drive from unknown not initialize error.

00:00 Introduction
00:22 Solutions and recovery process
00:40 Using checkdisk method
01:58 By converting the disk and assign value
04:02 Using third party software

commands i use here:
chkdsk g: /r /f where letter "g" is my problamatic drive

diskpart
list disk
select disk 1 where letter "1" is my problamatic drive
clean
covert gpt
create partition primary
format quick fs=ntfs
assign
exit

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[bnadem.panormal]

0:17 There is. Never be so sure my friend. I had the the same error out of nowhere, I simply disconnected the HDD, cleaned it up carefully and pluged it back in and it woked as it used to be with no data loss.

Here's my process if anyone is interested:
I have 1 SSD as the main drive, a new HDD and a 14 year old HDD archive
I went to "My Computer" and the old HDD was not there, went to disc manager and it was listed there as Not initialized like in the video and it asked me if I want to do perform this or that (I forgot what it was)
I closed it, turned off my pc, unplugged it from the outlet, let it sit for a couple of minutes.

The pc was very dusty so I unplugged the GPU and all 3 drives (please be very careful handling the drives specially the HDDs and specially old ones as they are fragile components)

Used a duster and carefully dusted the pc. I cleaned the GPU and drives with a soft makeup brush very carefully.

I plugged everything back in making sure the connections are in place.

Powered the pc and under the windows startup logo it was performing some "fixing drive something something" took about 5 minutes and it booted as usual and the old HDD was there with all files intact, thank God!
Now I'm going to back up the heck out of it.

Good luck to everyone.

[oceanicanime]

You are a saviourrr. My SSD was not working so i cleaned the disk by the CLEAN command and didnt knew what to do then i found ur tutorial and i foolowed ur steps after the CLEAN command and its WORKING NOW ... Ty a lottt

[danielcosta]

Bro, you just saved me a hundred bucks. I can't thank you enough, I've subscribed and liked your video. Thank you very much

[ecuatorianoenestadosunidos]

Let’s Thanks Mannnn i follow step by step and that workss Perfectly Appreciate 🎉🎉🎉🎉

[pre_krastineit]

Thank you so much Brother, I had a pendrive 64Gb, was facing this issue since 2021, and I thought it's not going to fix . But finally I landed on this video really man thanks a lot . Thank you so much for saving my Pendrive. Thank you so much 🙏

[techgamen]

Fully working! Thanks brother sooo much!!!!

[RICHGLOSO]

first video that actually solved my problem, thanks bro

[TanvirSalman]

my hard showing 0 storage in list disk, what i have to do? is there any chance to get back my data?

[sowhat]

When I type the command "convert gpt" it says that it has encountered an error "Data error <cyclic redundancy check>. I get the same error for "convert mbr".

[Dreamy_duets]

When i wrote convert gpt it's says diskpart has encountered an error: the request could not be performed because of an I/O device error.

[starrly]

when i type "create partition primary"
i got this message "DiskPart has encountered an error: The request failed due to a fatal device hardware error.
See the System Event Log for more information."
i need help please

[MrJSYAP]

Hi, in my disk management shown disk not initialized but in cmd disk part list disk never appeared the disk, how can i do?

[marutinandanstudiokuwantha]

Sir mere hdd open nhi ho rhi h apne btaya us type kiya but data error (cyclic redundancy check) bta rha h kya kru

[break_it_bill]

edit: I see elsewhere in the comments that are anything similar to this that you state the drive is damaged - so absolutely nothing that can be done to recover any data?


after "list disk" (2:10) my disk shows "0 B" not 8TB as it should.

Back story: external drive that after experiencing a power outage shows as "unknown not initialized" in Disk Management. It does not show up at all in Devices and Drives within File Explorer (1:03). The drive used to be labeled as Z: and when I attempt to do "chkdsk" (1:00) it is obviously not finding it.

HDD powers on, spins, but isn't recognized by anything other than Disk Management and upon initial scan there is prompts me to initialize the disk and set up MBR or GPT which I'm reluctant to do as I do not want to make the data recovery process more difficult.

Thanks in advance for any input from anyone or the OP 🤘

[CyberPodMark]

Will this losing data? I just skip the tutorials months ago and I tried to use this software then everything went backed it up, but second when it came back because of the stupid bsod. I went so mad that I’ve lost everything again, the thing is that lost partition doesn’t not shown since it’s either just a software glitch or hard drive is always a problem. So either way I’m afraid that Im not going to delete the file again. So Im just gonna go ahead and upload my operating system of vhdx to other thing where the files was stored.

[mylovesongs]

I made a Win11 installation USB Flash Drive. Using Diskpart, i made the installed SSD in the laptop the PRIMARY drive. Somewhere along the way, i put the wrong info in Diskpart, and now the SSD is lost! Diskpart cannot find it! How can i get Diskpart to find it? The drive is in the command prompt as X: It is a 512GB SSD. I need it to find it!

[ford]

Hello. I have a serious question for you.

I have experienced a STRANGE HDD disk problem.
I turned on my two external 2TB WDs. Hard drives to install
(toshiba bluetooth stack) drives something that worked well. The machine was restarted and usb bluetooth worked fine. Then I had to access the external hdd to archive something. I couldn't get in for some strange reason and it said RAW on the disk in file explorer.

I restarted the machine and win11 did a short disk repair. Then the disk was back, except that I no longer had user access to the disk. i tried to give it this but in the middle of this process win11 reported that there was an error with the disk and could not continue.

I tried linux boot usb to try to access and read and copy from hdd but didn't get full permission to copy.

Then I tried the Android TV box I had (x96 air) which gave me 100% access to do what I wanted. But the problem was USB2 which is extremely slow and I never got over 10mb/s read speed.

Anyone know why this happened to me? why do I suddenly have to have user access. Shouldn't an external hdd work without user access?

bitlocker is off.

I am using win11 23h2

My HDD Samsung 2TB HD204UI

[holjeholjevac]

Hy there, i just watched your video hoping to find a solution for my problem but unfortunately i haven`t been succesfull.
I bought on Amazon Ugreen CM578 M.2 NVMe Hard Drive Enclosure in which i installed fully working SSD with 512Gb of space.
The Ugreen Enclosure with SSD is recognised from the PC but not usable, i watched your video from start till the end and i did everything you explained but nothing happened.
i have installed Erase US Partition manager just like Mini Tool Partition Wizard and on both software my "Disc 2" is recognised but somehow i can`t do anything, i can`t format, optimise or anything on that disc and if i take SSD out of the enclosure and install it directly into a PC the same SSD is recognised and fully working.
What am i doing wrong, please help :(

[Helios.vfx.]

But how do I know which letter is if mine isn't even shown in explorer?

[rocube]

It says this disk contains system partition and converting this disk to MBR style may cause your system to be unbootable how do I fix this please?