Initialize New Disks

To initialize new disks

In Disk Management, right-click the disk you want to initialize, and then click Initialize Disk.
In the Initialize Disk dialog box, select the disk(s) to initialize. You can select whether to use the master boot record (MBR) or GUID partition table (GPT) partition style.

Note The disk is initialized as a basic disk.

Additional considerations

New disks appear as Not Initialized. Before you can use a disk, you must first initialize it. If you start Disk Management after adding a disk, the Initialize Disk Wizard appears so you can initialize the disk.

ToTchin…
I’m afraid in my case that doesn’t work… I’ve have tried initializing
Disk with both method GBP and MBR just for testing purposes.. still didn’t fix it..

The HDD doesn’t read in WIN XP but reads the unallocated partition on WIN7..

We maybe talking about a good software program that can do the job…in which im still in a research for..any advice would be great..

I’ve placed an old hard drive in a USB external enclosure to rtrieve files.

Are there files already on that drive that you are hoping to retrieve? It’s possiblt that you can’t do it with the enclosure that you’re using. The enclosure might expect to initialize the drive itself in order to make the drive accessible to the enclosure.

And if you do that, then the files that you want to retrieve will effectively be gone.

Tom

but there are softwares out there that you can use to retrieve back some of your files, but not all will work back once again.