#Initialize drive windows 7 keygen#
You can now manually initialize the disk as well, by doing a right click on the disk and select Initialize disk option. You’ll now directly asked to Initialize Disk as shown below. You can now close Command Prompt and open Disk Management snap-in.
In the administrative Command Prompt window, type commands mentioned in bold and press Enter key: diskpart Opens command-line Disk Management (DiskPart) list disk Lists all disks available select disk # Replace # with disk number you want to initialize clean Cleans the selected drive exit Exit from DiskPart toolģ. On older Windows editions such as Windows 8/7, you can open Command Prompt as administrator, using search.Ģ. In Windows 10, right click on Start Button and select Command Prompt (Admin). FIX: Cannot Initialize Disk In Windows 10/8/7 FIX 1 – Via Command Promptġ. If you’re also facing same problem, you can try below mentioned suggestions and see if they helps you. In short, we’ve no way now to initialize the disk. Also, when we right click on the disk, Initialize disk option was greyed out (refer below shown screenshot). In this case, we were not asked to initialize disk after opening Disk Management. However, recently we came around the issue where we were not able to initialize the disk. As soon as you add the new disk and start Disk Management snap-in, you’ll be automatically asked to initialize the disk.
The MBR partition is usually recommended, in case if you’ve to later use the disk with previous versions of Windows. Initialization process configure the newly added disk with partition style such as Master Boot Record ( MBR) or GUID Partition Table ( GPT). In Windows, when you add new hard drive, you must initialize the disk before you can use.