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Asked: 2021-12-17T14:46:11+00:00 In:

Solved 500 GB Western Digital Drive Gives CRC Error, Uninitialized

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To keep it short and simple, my 500 GB Western Digital drive gives me a CRC (Cyclic redundancy check) error whenever I try to initialize it in order to create a new partition in the disk manager.

Since I am unable to initialize it, it’s not partitionned and therefore does not have a letter assigned to it (chkdsk is useless, then).

However, I have scanned it with Hard Disk Sentinel, and it said that the hard drive’s health was 100% and that no errors were to be found.

I do not care at all about the data that may be present on the disk (I got it from a friend in that state) so recovering or smashing the disk is irrelevant.

I just want to be able to use it to store unimportant data that’s piling up on my computer but that I do not wish to delete.

Thanks in advance!

Edit : If any pictures are needed, I can take screenshots. Additionally, the “Initialize Disk” button is now greyed out.

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      I’ve pulled drives out of old Tivo’s and used them in computers but they do need to be reparitioned. Disk management should be able to do that if the drive is OK. And you’ve wiped it with the HDDguru LLF so you’d have to go through disk management to set it up anyway. If that’s still not working then it must be some problem with the drive.
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