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Ed_Canada_Ontario
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Jan 02, 2020

Adding external HDD but not showing Volume

Hi,

I had an old laptop with Windows10, I removed the 2.5" HDD from the laptop. I put it into a 2.5"enclosure. I plug it into another Windows 10 PC. New device found and driver installed. Cannot see drive in File Explorer. Went to Disk Management. Saw Disk 2 listed as "Unknown Not Initialized". When trying to initialize (GPT), I got "Incorrect Function". The partition is not showing any Volume information. The HDD should have 1000Gb, so it's not a monstrous size...

Is the disk corrupted? It was working fine in my old laptop, I was careful when removing it from my old laptop. Can't see how it can get corrupted by just unscrewing a few screws and sliding into an enclosure though?

Thanks for your time.

ed

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