I have connected the drive to the usb port and opened Disk Management on Windows 10. It recognizes the drive and says that it must be initialized. It gives me 2 options: MBR or GPT. I have tried both and when I click OK I get a new window opened that says Virtual Disk Manager - The device is not ready. When I click OK the VDM window closes and nothing happens. I moved the drive to another W10 system and the same thing occurs. Any suggestions?
WD Tech assisted me, drive was defective, am returning it to be replaced.
Whenever there is a "disk unknown not initialized” issue occurs, your hard drive may show unallocated space in Disk Management, and the data on which will be inaccessible or else there is another situation: there is no disk space shown in Disk Management.
Below are the 2 different methods to resolve the issue:
Method 1. Use Disk Management to fix not initialized error on an external hard drive
Connect the uninitialized external hard drive to your PC.
Press Win + R keys, type: diskmgmt.msc and hit Enter.
Find the uninitialized, unknown external hard drive with I/O device error > Right-click on it and select Initialize Disk.
Then set the disk to initialize and set the disk as MBR or GPT.
After this, you may reboot your PC and keep all changes. Now, your external hard drive will be recognized and read by Windows again.
Method 2. Run CMD to repair I/O device error on not initialized external hard drive
This CMD command would erase all data on the uninitialized hard drive, which you can later restore after repairing the external hard drive not initialized, with the help of any data recovery or partition recovery software:
To recover your data from the affected drive you need the help of reliable data recovery software. Here, I suggest you to check out Stellar Data Recovery Professional Software to recover your data from the affected drive.
I’m sorry to hear you’re having trouble initializing your WD Black Game Drive on Windows 10. I can imagine how frustrating that must be. Have you tried updating your drivers or checking if there are any firmware updates available for your drive?
I’m not sure what might be causing the issue, but have you tried connecting the drive to a different USB port or using a different cable? It could be a hardware problem. As for money making games, I’m not sure if that’s related to your issue, but it sounds like an interesting topic. I’ve heard of some games that offer real money prizes or rewards, like HQ Trivia or Swagbucks. Have you played any of those? By the way, I’m new to this forum too and still getting the hang of things. I hope we can both find some helpful advice here.
