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AnsweredWhat Happens if I Initialize a Disk with Data on It?

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Best Answered by Zoey September 11, 2023

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When you can not see your disk on the computer after adding it, maybe you need to initialize this disk or assign a letter for it. Initializing your disk means building or rebuilding a partition table (MBR or GPT) on the disk.

Then, what happens if I initialize a disk with data on it? Once you initialize a disk with data on it, data will be erased. Actually, you need to format the disk during the initialization process to make it usable, which will delete your disk data.

You will need a solution to how to initialize a disk without losing data or want to know how to recover data after initialize disk. For your data security, it is advisable for you to recover data from not initialized disk.

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