How to initialize external HDD??


  1. furd
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    How to initialize external HDD??


    Since I put vmWare 10 on my laptop , my external HDD wont initialize. it says its there but when i try to initialize it tells me my drive is too small for GPT, Its 500gb. When I installed VMWare i might have had the external connected and i believe i opted for to split partitions into 8 parts. I have some data and files on the drive that i need but once i take them off i will just format it. So how can i initialize the drive and/or get my data and store it some where safe? I am running windows 10 BTW
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  3. Mark Phelps
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    Windows 8.1, Win10Pro
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    If you can't read the drive using normal means, the only way to recover the files is using Windows data recovery software. A good free app is Recuva. If that doesn't work, you should consider using Active@File Recovery Pro. It's free to download, install, and try out but the recovery of larger files requires a license.
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