Maxtor Hard Drive "initialize" Questions

...in my computer- red light followed by flashing blue light Is this a new hard drive, if so did you initialize it with the included software? new drives need to initialized when first powered up. ...

do i need to initialize my j book for it to be recognized. my j book is not recognized on my computer? If you have already put files on it, initializing will most likely delete everything! I assume ...

...drive lights up and makes sounds, but does not show new hardware. Most likely the drive hasn't been initialized. Go to start, right click my computer, then manage. Select disk management on the right ...

say's it needs to initialize and comes up with eisa. The EISA partition is a partition that a computer manufacturer places on the disc to assist in recovery of that maker's files. It is not necessary ...

disk not initialized In windows go to Control Panel->Administrative Tools->Computer Management->Disk management click "Enter". Find the disk that says disk uninitialized right click in the ...

...Drive you are adding. There should be a red circle with a white minus in it. Right click and select initialize disk. Now the initialize wizard will start working. If you don't use the quick format it ...

when i start up wd my book essential it is not initialized. when i click offline setting i get error message that external drive is write protected. my drive is not partitioned or formatted but i cant

second drive unable to initialize the drive is available in BIOS but if I try to initialize the system tells me there is an e/a failure. hello, boot with one live cd windows or linux and recover what ...

Toshiba MK5056GSY is not initialized plzzz helppp mee................. if it's a second disk you can initialize it under disk management.  press the windows key + the R key and type ...

...management but not in my computer. when i want to format it in diskmgmt, the os says it is not yet initialized and when i'm gonna initialize it, it says the computer can't read disk sectors.