Disk 1 Unknown Not Initialized Windows 10
Hello,I have a bunch of hard drives that I have pulled out of old computers and want to clean before I get rid of them. However, with most of them I am having a problem in that my pc is not recognizing the hard drives.
When I go into Disk Management, it just says Disk 1 Unknown NotInitialized. And I am unable to Initialize the disk. During my troubleshooting, I came across something that indicated to me that these are all in Read Only mode and I've tried various things to remove that, but with no luck.I also tried using Diskpart to remove the Read Only status, but that isn't working either. As you can see from my screenshot, it shows that there is a disk but no space.I can also list the Volumes on this disk.If this was just one or two hard drives, I would think it was just a hard drive problem, but it's nearly every single one. That leads me to believe it is something else.I've been looking online and trying multiple things and having no luck.
Does anyone else have an idea of something that will work?Also, I should say that I've tried this on my Windows 10 machine as well as a Windows 7 machine. Same results, unfortunately.Thanks,Jeanie. Brendan Pitstop NZ wrote:hiyaif I am reading this correctly, you have some old HDD's that you just want to ensure have no data before you dispose of themum, why bother with all the mucking around. A ten pound sledge hammer will do that trick.sometimes IT people get carried away and overlook the bleeding obvious! Brendan, that was going to be my next option!However, I did finally figure out the problem.
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I don't recall doing this the last time I was wiping drives. But it looks like I have to reboot my computer each time I attach one of these drives and then it recognizes it just fine and I'm able to wipe the HD.DBAN would work except that I don't have any old pc's where I could install these old hard drives.
All of the motherboards seem to be made for SATA and I don't have any adapter cables.Anyway, it took me long enough.when in doubt reboot the bleeping computer! My first bit of advice is to stop.
Make an image of the disk, and work on that. The more you use the actual disk, the less likely it is that you will be able to recover data.Maybe you can't do that at this time. You can try this one time before making am image.Try booting to a live Linux disc, preferably gparted, to see if you can read the device.Windows knows that there's something there, but it doesn't know how to read it. That doesn't always mean that the data is gone, it just means that something has happened and it's preventing Windows from understanding how to interpret it.If the disc is readable, then gparted should be able to read it. Unless you know what you are doing and are absolutely confident that you aren't about to make the disk unreadable, do not change anything at this point. Shut down and make an image.Once the image is created, work only with it.
Recover the data. Test disk and Photo rec are some programs you can start with. There are others, but you need to get to the point of recovery before worrying about that.When you have your data, you can work on the original and see if the disk is physically damaged. These were old Windows machines that I pulled the hard drives out of. Most were probably XP machines. I also have several from an HP Proliant DL380 G7 server that we just shut down. I had the same problem with those, too, but since I've never disposed of server hardware before I just figured it was that.
But now that I'm trying to clean up all of these others, I see it's pretty much every hard drive I try. I had wanted our IT company who manages the servers to take away the old one but was told by the tech they don't do that. They used to.:-(Sorry, I don't know how to use Linux. Have you tried using the clean option in diskpart? If that doesn't work, a linux box might be the only option.On a linux box I would just do the following:1.
Physically connect the drive2. If it mounts, unmount3. Use dd or maybe even shred or scrub to wipe the drive4. Disconnect and try again on WindowsIf the disks are still giving you problems, it might be the controller forcing the Read Only state. If that's the case, either the disk is physically damaged and this is how it tries to prevent future data loss, or you might need to apply firmware update, even if it's the same version as is currently on the drive. I would think that they could be dead hard drives except for the fact that I had the same issue with the server hard drives.
But then I was able to bring the server back online without a problem and I used my vsphere client to at least remove all of the VM's off of it. Bt I still can't pull each one out and connect it to my Windows machine and disk wipe it, which is what I really want to do.
Or any other method used to wipe it.If they were all dead, I wouldn't have been able to do that. I suspect whatever issue is occurring with the server hard drives is the same one I'm encountering with all of these pc hard drives.
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Dancrane wrote:Kind of weird. Can you take the drives offline/online through diskpart? Also like the idea of running the clean command as well.It shouldn't matter, but is the ECP being run on a user or admin account?Hi Dan,No, it won't let me take it offline in diskpart, either. I get the same message that The device isn't ready. To answer your other question, I'm logged into the pc as domain administrator.I looked at the System Event log and this is what it says.Log Name: SystemSource: Virtual Disk ServiceDate: 3/15/2017 1:01:58 PMEvent ID: 10Task Category: NoneLevel: ErrorKeywords: ClassicUser: N/AComputer: 201310-14.domain.comDescription:VDS fails to write boot code on a disk during clean operation.
Error code: 8000008Event Xml:46320System201310-14.domain.com8000008. Jeanie H wrote:GrammarPolice wrote:Windows really isn't a good OS for wiping drives, anyway. As I said before, you'd be much better served by using a dedicated tool like DBAN.I'm trying to use DiskWipe but since my computer can't read the drive, it's useless.
Will DBAN work when the drive can't be read?DBAN doesn't use Windows, which is where you are having trouble. If the disk is working, DBAN should see it and let you wipe it. It accesses the drive at a much lower level than Windows allows. I took one of the drives and popped it into one of the pc's I was planning to get rid of and then stuck in a Windows 7 installation disk. This allowed me to delete all of the partitions and now it's installing a fresh copy of Windows 7 on the machine. At least this way, there shouldn't be any data left on the drive so I'll be comfortable disposing of it.The other hard drives are older and not SATA so I have to see if there is a way for me to set them up in this machine. Hopefully I can so that I can just repeat the process and be done with this.If anyone else comes up with a solution, I'll be happy to hear it!
I still have many more of these to go. Hi Jeanie HIt sounds like you do not want to reuse those hard drives. In these cases I think that the quickest, most reliable and easiest ways of destroying their content is to do it physically. I use a large hammer and old wood chisel.
It easily penetrates the thin case where the disc are and punctures them. Do it a number of times if you are paranoid. Alternatively, some people drill holes in them. It takes far too long to write zeros or randomise the hard drives.If you want to recycle the hard drives then their content needs to be totally over written. Installing an operating system such as Windows 10 will only use part of the hard drive. As has been mentioned DBAN should do it.
In fact all Linux OS's have a way of to over write the data.For the non SATA drives you can buy a caddy to usb device, but these hard drives are valueless and it is easier to go with the physical destruction. Brendan Pitstop NZ wrote:hiyaif I am reading this correctly, you have some old HDD's that you just want to ensure have no data before you dispose of themum, why bother with all the mucking around. A ten pound sledge hammer will do that trick.sometimes IT people get carried away and overlook the bleeding obvious! Brendan, that was going to be my next option!However, I did finally figure out the problem. I don't recall doing this the last time I was wiping drives. But it looks like I have to reboot my computer each time I attach one of these drives and then it recognizes it just fine and I'm able to wipe the HD.DBAN would work except that I don't have any old pc's where I could install these old hard drives.
All of the motherboards seem to be made for SATA and I don't have any adapter cables.Anyway, it took me long enough.when in doubt reboot the bleeping computer! Jeanie H wrote:DBAN would work except that I don't have any old pc's where I could install these old hard drives. All of the motherboards seem to be made for SATA and I don't have any adapter cables.You can boot DBAN on any machine. You are attaching these drives to a machine to wipe them, so why would you not be able to boot DBAN on that machine?Jeanie H wrote:Anyway, it took me long enough.when in doubt reboot the bleeping computer! Glad you got it figured out.Did you decide the data wasn't really important / sensitive enough to wipe out? The way I'm attaching the HD's is through an adapter set so it comes in through a USB port. DBAN doesn't recognize those. It only recognized the internal hard drive.
At least that's the way it worked on one of the old machines I tested it on. I wasn't going to chance hooking it up to my regular pc and accidentally wiping it.These are really old HD's that have just been sitting in storage.
At one time, we had a bunch of old pc's and to get them out of here as quickly as possible, I just removed the hard drives and recycled the rest. Figured I would come back later to clear the HD's when I had more time to do so.
So, here I am.:-).
Disk management console view is not up-to-datei dont know how to fix your disk management, but i can fix your partition problems.open up Command Prompt with admin rights. (Right click, run as admin)enter inDISKPARTlist diskthen find the Disk number for your Raid array. Lets call it number 7 ( you can tell what disk is what by the total size)type inSelect Disk 7List Partition (will give you a list of all the partitions.)Select Partition 1 (im assuming you only have 1 partition on Disk 7) repeat this step if you have more partitions.ASSIGNthat should get the array up and running ready to use.EDITED.any problems, post back ^^Still EDITING.Stick Out Tongueside question, have you tried restarting the PC? Disk cleanupHi joysoder, to properly and safely delete any files not required by your system, run Disk Cleanup twice as explained below. Each time select everything in the list and delete them. Disk Cleanup will not suggest deleting anything that is not safe to delete.Open File ExplorerClick on your hard driveOn the Manage Tab, click CleanupLet Disk Cleanup do its initial scanSelect Everything in the list and choose DeleteStart Disk Cleanup againLet Disk Cleanup do its initial scanThis time in the resulting dialog, click 'Cleanup System Files'Let Disk Cleanup run another scanSelect Everything in the list and choose Delete.