WD passport not initialized, fatal error on device

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My external drive was working just fine for the past few years but today it wasn’t being recognized by my Pc. When I check on disk management, it says it’s not initialized. The initialisation process returns the fatal error message…help me fix this.
Also, I saw that some guys fixed this by contacting the WD data recovery agencies from the WD website. There’s no agency in my country. What can I do?
Please help me fix this. I really don’t want to lose all that data.

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Try the below mentioned 2 different methods to resolve the not initialized issue on the drive and share the result if it worked or not:

Method 1. Use Disk Management to fix not initialized error on an external hard drive

  1. Connect the uninitialized external hard drive to your PC.
  2. Press Win + R keys, type: diskmgmt.msc and hit Enter.
  3. Find the uninitialized, unknown external hard drive with I/O device error > Right-click on it and select Initialize Disk.
  4. Then set the disk to initialize and set the disk as MBR or GPT.

After this, you may reboot your PC and keep all changes. Now, your external hard drive will be recognized and read by Windows again.

Method 2. Run CMD to repair I/O device error on not initialized external hard drive

This CMD command would erase all data on the uninitialized hard drive, which you can later restore after repairing the external hard drive not initialized, with the help of any data recovery or partition recovery software:

  1. Press Win+R > Type: diskpart and hit Enter.
  2. Type: list disk and hit Enter.
  3. Type: select disk F and hit Enter; (replace F with the drive letter of an uninitialized external hard drive) .
  4. Type: clean and hit Enter.
  5. Type: convert gpt or convert mbr and hit Enter.
  6. Type: create partition primary and hit Enter.
  7. Type: format quick fs=ntfs and hit Enter.
  8. Type: assign and hit Enter.
  9. Type: exit and hit Enter.
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Another stupid user who cannot fix the problem, he only suggests initializing the disk so that you lose all of your data. How stupid can this user be. The retard should be kicked off because he did not read what the user wrote which was as follows: Mr blindman could not read this:

“Please help me fix this. I really don’t want to lose all that data.”

mikes2 take a course in understanding English - Doh