Won't Initialize External Hard Drive
Fishdoc wrote:
I am having problems getting Vista to recognize my Western Digital My
Book hard drives (both a 500 GB and a 1 TB drive). When I plug the USB
cable in it goes through the installing drivers and says it installed
and the device is ready to use. However My Computer doesn't show the
drive. Disk Manager tells me the drive needs to be initialized but when
I try to initialize the drive I get one of two error messages the first
says "Incorrect Function". I then tried using System Restore to reset
the computer to before the last Windows Update since the drives worked
fine in the past and it seems unlikely 2 drives would fail at exactly
the same time. Again when I plugged the drive in it said installed the
drivers and the device was ready to use, but no drive in My Computer and
Disk Manager again said the drive needs to initialized. This time when
I tried to initialize the drive I got the error message "The drive
cannot find the sector requested"
Ideas?
You do NOT want to initialize the drive if it has data on it...
that will blank it out!!!!!!
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