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corkyblue

Post subject: HDD is 'not initialized'

Posted: June 11th, 2011, 16:04

Joined: March 2nd, 2011, 12:08
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Location: mostly UK

my HDD is telling me its 'not initialized' although it already has a partition full of data on it??! ... is it safe to go ahead and initialize it?

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labtech

Post subject: Re: HDD is 'not initialized'

Posted: June 11th, 2011, 16:25

Joined: August 18th, 2010, 17:35
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Location: Massachusetts, USA

No, don't do that. Something is wrong with the drive. Do you have experience imaging drives? Suggest to power it off until you figure out what to do next!

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corkyblue

Post subject: Re: HDD is 'not initialized'

Posted: June 11th, 2011, 16:46

Joined: March 2nd, 2011, 12:08
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Location: mostly UK

labtech wrote:

No, don't do that. Something is wrong with the drive. Do you have experience imaging drives? Suggest to power it off until you figure out what to do next!

no ive never imaged a drive...the drive is external and not under power at present... any advice??

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Samo

Post subject: Re: HDD is 'not initialized'

Posted: June 11th, 2011, 16:47

Joined: September 27th, 2005, 4:26
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Location: Bulgaria, Sofia

Have you just moved it from other machine to this one?

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fzabkar

Post subject: Re: HDD is 'not initialized'

Posted: June 12th, 2011, 7:51

Joined: September 8th, 2009, 18:21
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Location: Australia

Can you give us more detail, such as the model number of the external drive, and the model number of the HD inside the enclosure?

Does the drive spin up? Did you drop it or overvolt it? Is your OS reporting the correct capacity?

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corkyblue

Post subject: Re: HDD is 'not initialized'

Posted: June 13th, 2011, 8:41

Joined: March 2nd, 2011, 12:08
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fzabkar wrote:

the drive does spin...but does not show a capacity.

more drive details:

Model - ST3640323AS
Serial - 9VK0CE3H
FWare Revision - ZZ7L
LBA Sectors - 0

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Samo

Post subject: Re: HDD is 'not initialized'

Posted: June 13th, 2011, 9:25

Joined: September 27th, 2005, 4:26
Posts: 505
Location: Bulgaria, Sofia

This is well known problem with drives 7200.11 and 7200.12.
You could try to manage alone, or connect some good professionals from your location which are members here - pcimage, Guru ... and ask for a professional help
The choice is yours!

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fzabkar

Post subject: Re: HDD is 'not initialized'

Posted: June 13th, 2011, 23:09

Joined: September 8th, 2009, 18:21
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Location: Australia

See the following thread for an easy DIY fix:
http://forums.seagate.com/t5/Barracuda- ... 036#M19464

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pcimage

Post subject: Re: HDD is 'not initialized'

Posted: June 14th, 2011, 3:16

Joined: November 29th, 2006, 10:08
Posts: 7864
Location: UK

@ Franc

Assuming this is the same drive, he's already tried the "DIY BSY fix" with disastrous consequences...

barracuda-7200-wont-start-not-bios-t18730-20.html

Sorry to say that the problem has been exacerbated and maybe "bricked" for good :-(

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