The new drive is functioning and shows up everywhere - when booting, in Windows, in RAID configuration, I just can't initialize the disk with the Disk Management wizard (I'm using XP).

I just got a new SSD, and connected it with the SATA and power cables, but it’s not showing up in Windows. Any ideas on how ...

Hard disk didn't want to initialize = worry? [Update: Max HDD on HPT372 RAID?] Belayman Apr 13, 2008 Jump to latest Follow Reply ...

choose GPT as the partition style (MBR is for installing an OS), and click Initialize. Confirm the label, choose an unused drive letter, select a file system like FAT32, NTFS, or ReFS, and click the ...

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When a disk drive is not initialized, you cannot save data on it and BIOS cannot recognize the disk drive which can be the reason for the issue. This issue often happens to a new disk drive.

Jeff Hanson adds: "If you open the Iomega Tools application with a disk in the drive and click on the Erase/Initialize Disk Button and the window opens up with the options to do a short format or ...

If your Windows 11/10 computer is not recognizing SSD (Solid State Drive) & it is not showing up in BIOS or Disk Management, do this.