No initialze option in Disk management!

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Nicholas

I bought a laptop Hard drive and enclosure for a backup. Instructions
say it needs to be "initialize" through disk management. The disk shows
up and I can right click on it, but initialize is not one of the
options. The only things that shows up is Properties and Help. New
Partition is grayed out. I tried it on 2 machines both running XP home,
same result.

Enclosure is Sabrent X Drive.

Any suggestions?
 
Nicholas said:
I bought a laptop Hard drive and enclosure for a backup. Instructions
say it needs to be "initialize" through disk management. The disk shows
up and I can right click on it, but initialize is not one of the
options. The only things that shows up is Properties and Help. New
Partition is grayed out. I tried it on 2 machines both running XP home,
same result.

Enclosure is Sabrent X Drive.
Click to expand...

it probably is initialized already

normally one would just create a partition
format it and assign a drive letter...

do not create a dynamic disc
 
Nicholas said:
I bought a laptop Hard drive and enclosure for a backup. Instructions
say it needs to be "initialize" through disk management. The disk shows
up and I can right click on it, but initialize is not one of the
options. The only things that shows up is Properties and Help. New
Partition is grayed out. I tried it on 2 machines both running XP home,
same result.

Enclosure is Sabrent X Drive.

Any suggestions?
Click to expand...
perhaps it just needs to be formatted.
 
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