

I safely removed it in the evening but when I connected it again in the morning it was gone again.īack to square one. I was able to remove the protection, initialize the disk with acronis, it appeared in the device list so I could format it and then re-load backed up data on it. So I downloaded usb writeprotector by gaijin and here's the thing: it worked the first time.

But the operation stops middway because of an error. I can't do anything via cmd because windows can't see the hd.Įxternal Software: Acronis Disk Director sees the disk, the column on the left says 'initialize disk'. Same for format, diskpart, scandisk, defrag, etc. Windows 7: The 'initialize disk' option under 'disk management' in windows 7 is greyed out so it's useless. Gives me an error every single time, besides It's listed in disk management but not in gparted. Ubuntu: Ubuntu sees it but I can't mount it, nor format it, I've tried many times. The disk doesn't appear in the device list, neither in xp, nor in Windows7. I have an external HD that I want to format.
