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Disk Managemet says my hard drive ''Not Initialized''. Windows cannot see it in My Computer. How can I recover my data?

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  • adatukalns Dec 09, 2009

    Its Windows 7. I tried on Windows Vista as well. Same error. Is there any program witch can recover my data?

  • Johnathon Muise May 11, 2010

    what version of windows?

  • Anonymous Oct 09, 2021

    is this a inside PC HDD or outside, USB HDD? not told. not one clue.
    if the drive shows up in Windows diskManager, it may not be dead, if does not it is dead.
    if not dead and gets a drive letter assigned,
    if it gets (no PC told) a E: drive and some files are there.
    do this.
    always recover first, if drive acts up.

    do not run DSKCHK or diskcheck until last., nor delete fails ,nor format the disk, killing all data now.
    do not run defrag, (on a bad disk this kills dead good data) !!

    steps all. IN ORDERhttps://pcdied.com/HDD-SDD/recovery.html


    use Xcopy first if possible, and is not on any fully dead drive. dead is dead and if not head to spin it is DEAD.
    this recovers data safely
    then when this is done
    try free RECUVA. or below is better,

    the best is paid AOMEI, partition app. for sure recover wizard is totally amazing but only here at this point in time.

  • Anonymous Oct 09, 2021

    I just saved 25,000 files last week with free w10 built in, Xcopy. /C (C is a switch not drive)
    costs $0

    https://pcdied.com/HDD-SDD/recovery.html

    NO PC told, no OS told, not told is HDD inside PC our outside PC USB ported. an is it the BOOT drive.
    nor if it ever worked before on this PC (unknown) or only worked on other PCs non told if true.

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