External hard disk not showing in My computer or This PC Windows 10(solution) - Disk not initialized

External USB hard disk not showing up in My computer or This PC in Windows 10. Reason: Disk is Unknown, Not initialized, No volumes are created, only contains Unallocated spaces. Solution: open disk management Initialize disk, create a new simple volume from the Unallocated spaces. Seagate External hard disk not showing in This PC Can't populate volumes Disk Not initialized fix Disk Unknown Initialize Disk in disk management

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1. how if your PC says "the media is write protected"
2. I am getting error like volume information for this Disk cannot be found...what does that mean?is the Disk corrupted
3. it worked! https://youtu.be/46KnP-7_EHs
4. please hepl me when i try ID i got this notification data error (cyclic reduncy check). how to go through this problem sir >>??? help me out
5. it get stuck at populate
6. I love you so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
7. My data gone it automatically formatted drive
8. When I populate it shows 0mb unallocated and reserved space plz help
9. Thank you so much.. this worked perfectly!!!!!!!! i urge everyone with the missing hard drive problem to do this solution.
10. thanks for the help I've been trying to fix this for a while now
11. What if your hd was setup in another computer as gpt and the pc I try to connect only recognizes mbr? Is there a way to change it?
12. Thanks so much dude
13. i am not able to initialize disk can you help please help i have my whole steam library on the hard drive it says The request failed due to a fatal device hardware error if you can help it would be much appreciated thanks
14. not showing anything on hard disk
15. Will the data gone after initialize the disk? because my external drive is going inknown like this (it has many datas)