# External Disk Not Initialized

**URL:** <https://forums.sandisk.com/t/external-disk-not-initialized/408187>\
**Category:** External SSD for Windows\
**Created:** [May 23, 2013, 8:46am UTC](https://forums.sandisk.com/t/external-disk-not-initialized/408187 "2013-05-23T08:46:18Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Hamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/bc8723/32.png) [@Hamer](https://forums.sandisk.com/u/Hamer)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2013, 8:46am UTC](https://forums.sandisk.com/t/external-disk-not-initialized/408187/1 "2013-05-23T08:46:18Z")

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My external hard disk is showing up in disk management as not initialized and space is unallocated. Any help will be greatly appreciated as I have a lot of data on the drive.

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**Author:** ![Joe\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/67e7ee/32.png) [@Joe\_S](https://forums.sandisk.com/u/Joe_S)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2013, 1:04pm UTC](https://forums.sandisk.com/t/external-disk-not-initialized/408187/2 "2013-05-23T13:04:00Z")

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Sonnds like something is corrupt. Try Testdisk [http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk](http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk)

Joe