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Today I'm glad to share with you how to troubleshoot disk 1 unknown not initialized problem.
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Reasons may cause disk 1 unknown not initialized
1.Outdated driver
2.Virus attack.
3.Partition loss.
4.Bad sectors.
5. MBR corruption.
Different methods under different situations
Situation1: Disk unknown, not initialized, no disk space
Check your disk, if there is a physical error, you only can replace it with a new hard drive.
If there is nothing bad of the disk, the disk initialized not unknown, no disk space shown may due to the PC motherboard issue.
Thus, you need to turn off PC, disconnect the hard drive, and remove battery for a while.
after 10 more seconds insert the battery
and turn on the computer
then shut down the computer
reconnect the hard drive to your PC and
restart the PC
How to update driver
Right click Start button and select Device Manager from the list.
2.Click Disk Drivers. Right click the hard drive
select update driver software
3.Select Search automatically for updated driver software.
Situation2: Disk unknown, not initialized, unallocated space
1.Initialize Disk 1
Right click This PC , then click Manage
next click Disk Management
initialized disk will appear
automatically if not follow my steps to find it
right click disc 1 choose initialize
disk
In the pop-up window, you can select the disk to initialize and choose MBR or GPT partition style.
2.Fix or rebuild MBR
search AOMEI Partition Assistant on internet
download standard version for free
Step 1. launch AOMEI Partition Assistant.
Step 2. Right click the hard drive, select Rebuild MBR.
Step 3. you can set the type of MBR for the current OS in the pop up dialog box.
Click OK
Step 4.Then, you’ll back to the main interface, click Apply at the toolbar to launch the progress.
