when i click OK on the initialize disk i get a I/O ERROR message come up which stops me from going into volume wizard why am i having this problem could u please help me its a 1TB WD Elements external HRD i have also attached print screens of both pages as well please help thank you

Mine doesn't even show up on disk management. Also, every minute or so it makes a weird tick noise. Not a continuous clicking noise. Help! With mine when I plug it in once out of every 20 times it shows up. Once i do click on it and try to remove files to my laptop it freezes.

@rockyslayem983

8 жыл бұрын

Did you ever found what was wrong with it mine is the same. I looked everywhere couldn't find anything really

@MrYoonKim

8 жыл бұрын

nope. gave up and returned it.

@tshepangmbakile7066

8 жыл бұрын

yah myn dts d same thing ...myn ddnt show at disk management initially and evn d size (1.5T) wasnt displayed..but i figured out disk 1 wz my external cuz obviously disk 0 is for my laptop and followed al d steps..nw ts formatting as we speak..

@eliezertoledoliajarquin5098

7 жыл бұрын

JustYoon2

@SimohammedTeffahi

7 жыл бұрын

i cant find it even in disk manager, i found disk 4 unknown 2047,35 Gb not initialized, but it's shows on "usbdeview" what can i do ?

You are a life saver. Your instructions worked perfectly. I bought a new 4 TB Seagate that would not show up. I tried everything but couldn't get my computer to recognize it. I followed what you said and my computer now sees 1/2 of my drive. I see that for whatever reason, it partitioned my external drive. I assigned a name for the first half and I will name the second half when I need to. Thank you again.

You made my night son, I just installed a SSD hard drive into my Dell Vostro 430b and I could not find the drive if my life depended on it. Thanks to your video it was a piece of cake.

This helped me more than my own IT department! thank you!

is there any ways to make it become open without wiping it. i really need the stuff on my drive but my drive is primary partition so i cant change anything on it.

@andrzejoben2728

5 жыл бұрын

Same here. Did you found a solution?

@mawedx2575

5 жыл бұрын

Did you?

@465painkiller465

4 жыл бұрын

Still having the same problem. The only way I am able to access the files is by plugging the drive to a system running Ubuntu. There it is detected.

@stephan4198

4 жыл бұрын

I have the same problem. Maybe its possible to restore the data after wiping it?!

Dude my dumper passport works now. Thanks for helping reuse old electronics and helping us save money and the environment.

This ended up not fixing the issue I was having - I too found an old WD drive which seemed to work but didn't install drivers right, and I can't find that driver anywhere - but I just wanted to write you and say I appreciated your matter-of-fact teaching method and how easy this video was to understand. I definitely learned a couple of things.

it doesnt show in the list of devices. when i am trying to initilise, it shows an I/O error.

@rachelberley7332

3 жыл бұрын

I’m having the same problem.

So, my problem is slightly different. My Passport WAS WORKING with my laptop, no problem and it continues to work on *other computers*. My Passport no longer shows up in Disk Manager and the "DISK PART: list disk" only shows my primary hard disk. In Device Manager, however, I do have an "Unknown USB Device" show up when I plug in this drive.

@Robin-vv5lt

5 жыл бұрын

issue resolved??

This vid helping people after six years. Worked a treat, cheers man

Dude 4 hours messing with this hard drive and this video fixed it right here on windows 10 in 2021. The real MVP, thank you.

@TipsNNTricks

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome, glad the video could help have a great weekend:)

Hi , I cannot find the drive even in disk management. Would yu help me with an alternate solution or fix for this.

@muhuzz6007

8 жыл бұрын

me too

@AchievementHog

8 жыл бұрын

+parthipan sunny Yeah same here

@rijoaneesya1263

8 жыл бұрын

+parthipan sunny me too hlp me too

@alihassan-qe4hn

8 жыл бұрын

+RIJO JAMES same

@Toto-95

8 жыл бұрын

same, what a shitty system !

Dude, mine says, after entering 'clean' at the disk part, "DiskPart has encountered an error: The request could not be performed because of I/O device error. See the System Event Log for more information." What to do next?

@sandysun8520

6 жыл бұрын

i am also facing same error any solution please

Your a life saver. I wanted to use one of my external drives for a linux operating system and it didn't work. Then when I went to use the drive it didn't show up. I tried lots of videos but all did nothing apart from yours which actually fixed my problem. This has saved by money on buying another 4TB drive which would have cost a lot of money. Thank you

I've actually helped a friend recovered her dead hard drive before she threw it in the bin. After following all these steps I used another program for data recovery. She got all her family photos back! Thanks again!

@secret252

7 жыл бұрын

which program ?

@ItsKapow

7 жыл бұрын

SECRET The drive was dead so in windows I had to assign a letter to it and format it, then I used a program called recuva to recover some of the files

@secret252

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks

When i go to disk management it says my harddrive doesnt have any partion and i cant partion it WTF

@mackiebthatsme7287

4 жыл бұрын

I fixed this by going to device manager- right clicking on "disk drives" and selecting "scan for hardware changes", this got the External HDD to show up.

THANK YOU!!!!!

@TipsNNTricks

8 жыл бұрын

+James Yates your welcome, glad the video could help:)

@pgkiipper

8 жыл бұрын

HI. Mine cant be seen either. When I list Diskpart my "WD my passport" is listed as Size 0 and Free ). When I tri to start it in disk manager, it gives the following message: The request could not be performed bacause of an I/O device error.

@eliezertoledoliajarquin5098

7 жыл бұрын

Pablo Gomes Kiipper

OMG!!! Thank you so much Sir!!! My wife and I used my 2TB WD Passport on a mac and then tried to use it on my Pc and nothing would work because the hard drive was formatted for Mac. This completely fixed the problem. You definitely earned a new subscriber and fan. Thank you for the amazing research and tutorial!

@TipsNNTricks

7 жыл бұрын

awesome, glad the video could help:)

this is the ONLY video tutorial that I actually could follow and it worked when someone has a very comprehensive knowledge of something only than can they teach GOOD JOB

What is I/O error ??

@joeocampo7081

9 жыл бұрын

Hey Leon yong did you fix your hard drive because I get the same error I/o error

@j-artyasay7227

9 жыл бұрын

sir same issue I/O error

@sandysun8520

6 жыл бұрын

same issue

@rachelberley7332

3 жыл бұрын

Did you ever resolve this?

shows access denied in virtual disk manager

@alejmitra7483

5 жыл бұрын

same here

WOW! Fought this problem for hours. This video more than solved the problem. Right away I was on the road to success. Thanks.

Dude, four years later... freaking awesome. Super clutch for me after I had messed the WD driver up myself. Your video was precise.

"Now we're gonna push enner" x')

@TeamEVO

8 жыл бұрын

07:53

@steveelkins52

4 жыл бұрын

wtf is 'enner' does he mean the return key or enter?

@Auden.

2 жыл бұрын

Steve Elkins enter you idiot

Or, make life simpler and follow my instructions. 1: go to start menu 2: right click on computer 3: select Manage (click ok or accept if a prompt comes up) 4: go to storage▶️disk management 5: Click on the selected drive below and select the option necessary for your task. 6: restart the computer after your done and your done

@raspberrygaming8388

6 жыл бұрын

Thanx a lot !!!

@williamclayton5624

6 жыл бұрын

I followed this and it found my drive and I formatted it again and it added J, K, & L, but J seems to be the correct Drive! Should I leave K and L on my list in the Computer?

I have to say, I followed your video on how to get around/ bypass the login window because of forgotten password and it was amazing! Worked like a charm, easy to follow, and , even as an MCP( Microsoft Certified Professional ), it was new info. Looking forward to more of your “discoveries” in the world of Computing. 👨🏼‍💻

You rule brother. I hate Windows but I had to use it with my WD. I have been using my WD for the last 4 years with Mac and Linux and I didn't have a single issue. Today I had to use it on Windows 7 and it wasn't showing up on My Computer. You brother, saved my life. :) Thanks a lot

THANK YOU !!!!!! I messed around for nearly half a day to solve this problem until I found your PERFECT STEP BY STEP Instructions.So UN GRAND MERCI from France. Best, FM

Dude it worked for me. You can't over explain these things, detail is everything! thanx!!!

Thanks a lot. I was facing this problem since a year. Today I am able to connect my external hard drive to my 12 years old computer. Thanks aging. Keep it up.

after years of computer frustration at last someone who is helpful and cautious and brilliant.because it worked.this is the true meaning and intended purpose of the internet to educate the world

After 5years, this vid is still useful. I am a newbie, and I did it. I'm happy and I skipped the dumpster diving part

Finally, so simple and easy way of explanation, am grateful that my external drive worked again. Thanks a lot

I got a new WD Element 2TB drive and wanted to get a ton of photos of my old windows 8 PC onto the drive and then to my new Mac. The Mac recognized the drive after a little work but the PC wouldn't show it except for in disk management, but I still could not assign the drive a letter. After your video I have a successfully labeled drive! Thanks much!

Man after 4 hours and a major headache trying to find a fix on youtube, Thank GOD i finally found your video that saved my life Bro. for my new WD 2tb passport external hard drive. now working on my old outdated windows xp system, that have a very valuable iTunes Library that I can now move to my new PC hp laptop. Again great instructions. - What a life saver!!!

TipsNNTricks You are the real deal. After so much research on "Western Digital Hard Drive Not Detected", I came along with this video which was the bomb. This is 2020, and I was struggling with the Drive. I follow all the given direction, and it worked on my Windows 10. Thank you so much.

ME TOO.... great detail... this is how a "tutorial video" SHOULD be done !! All other videos on U Tube are done so [ fast ] that you miss 98% of the info... GREAT JOB !!

Just want to tell you I followed the instructions as you was saying it. Amazingly I fixed my hard drive that I purchased and didn't work. Thank you so much! 3 THUMBS UP!

Bruh. I just spent an entire Sunday trying to figure this out and had absolutely zero success.....until I finally stumbled upon this video. Your "Clutch Factor" is easily on par with MJ in the Finals or Joey Chesnutt in the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest. Thank you, you fucking legend.

Great i messed up 6 hard drive trying to get a micro server to work. but with this video i have regain all 6 hard drives back. Excellent Thank you

You can do the same thing in the "Disk Management" GUI by right clicking on the primary partition you want to delete and clicking "Delete Volume" and proceeding as Jordan indicates. Thank you for the post!

fantastic. after getting my new Seagate 1TB Slim Disc Drive, it didn't show up or could format or anything. now works great. great job!

I want to add a further fix for those who can't find their HD in disk management. It took me four hours but I found a solution for my brand new wd 4tb hd which I couldn't get windows 7 to recognize. I downloaded wd drive utilities from their website and the hd was recognized inside the program. The tests didn't help or add information and I was about to give up. Restarting my computer did nothing but when I was safely ejecting the passport I accidently clicked on open drives and printers right above eject button and the HD was recognized there. Properties led me to realize the drive needed to be installed on my pc was missing from the hd. I used wd drive utilities on a hunch to erase all my hd's content, hoping the drive would surface as a natural program included with it, like reformating, and it worked. My HD works perfectly now. Please keep in mind mine was brand new and never dropped that I know of. I did get it on sale for $78 on Mercari so there's that but it was brand new, never used, and it was empty as I hadn't been able to get my pc to recognize it yet. Hopefully that's enough information to help someone, feel free to comment below if you have further questions.

I had the same problem.... I didn't know how to fix it.... after watching your video... it worked!!.. thank you

Brilliant, easy to understand. Followed video through and I now have a fully working drive.

you are absolutly brilliant. i bought a sata 3.5 2tb hard drive for a cyclone primus from amazon and my computer would not recognize the drive, so i found your video and followed your instructions and it worked. so i just have to say thank you loads.

Thank YOU! I have been researching for an hour trying to figure it out how to get it back to my PC. I have the WD external ultra passport and I can't believe how frustrating it has been since my purchased. The software backup sucks, relied on File History and it still does not back up everything, so I'm sticking with manual. Then this problem showed up and it's ridiculous what you have to do if you're not tech savvy. This device should be simple, especially in investing one of these. I read you can change the letter but I wasn't sure how to if I can't see it. Changing the drive letter worked for me! Thank you!

@TipsNNTricks

9 жыл бұрын

SSLinkDSC awesome glad the video could help, thank you for watching:)

@chakry0337

9 жыл бұрын

TipsNNTricks Your the best dude!! Never mind if it's long, or over stated but you got us through... I should have found this video of your long awhile ago... Dam i did not!! but lucky me, am so dam happy i did find it today at lest!! so so dam happy to see my "WD Passport workin".. (after a like an year or so..) Thanks a ton man... =)

My Toshiba had a letter assigned to it (G), but still wasn't showing up in My Computer. I used your info on how to assign/change the letter. I renamed it "T" for....you guessed it....Toshiba. The computer gave me a warning message first saying some drives might not like being assigned a different letter. I did it anyway, (since I had the material backed up on another drive), and it works fine. Thanks for the well-explained video!

Wow...I almost returned my Western Digital hard drive until I saw this video. Why in the hell do they not include this info in the instructions??? AARG!!! Back in the old days, Western Digital hard drives came with a nice little disk that installed it all for you neatly along with some nifty and easy to understand partition tools. I don't know why they abandoned that and went this route instead. Thanks so much for this video.

SOLVED! If u guys have the i o device error on a wd external hard drive just plug it in directly to your motherboard usb on the back of your PC ( not in front of ur PC not from other usb hubs directly in the usb on your motherboard ) . It worked for me !

This really Works !!!! As he mentioned in the video it will delete everything. If you are a Mac user don't use the WD hard drives to back up your Mac using time machine, since it will change the format of your hard drive and create these problems.

I have been stuck on this problem for a MONTH. Thank you so much!!!!!

Your procedure solved my problem stemming from a sealed-new drive preformatted for Mac that behaved exactly as your dumpster dive example. Thanks a million.

Thanks for the video. I bought a WD 1TB off ebay... I got it in the mail this morning I plugged it it and nothing.. Your video helped so much!!

You are a STAR man, you just save me headache of almost two years. I almost gave up my W.D. Am subscribing and liking straight

Worked like a charm. Thanks a million. I had an old Iomega Hard Drive that would not be recognized anymore and this video got it working again. It is a little lengthy, but I'd rather it be lengthy and thorough than quick and missing a step or rushed where an error could occur. Thumbs up for sure!

My HDD has been corrupted for 4 years or more thankfully Now I'm able to use it thanks to you man..

Oh! Wow! I followed your instructions and there is my drive! Thank you so much! I am soo happy about this video! Thank you so much! Great job!!! I did something that my son and my husband couldn't help me with. Now I got one on them! Thank you!

I was so immensely frustrated with a drive a friend gave me (previously used on a Mac) and this fixed it! Thank you so so much!!!!! I appreciate the pace you used too. I'm pretty computer savvy but I appreciated that you checked often to make sure no one destroyed their OS in the process. :) I was able to follow along with the video and do the steps with you. One note, my disk was 3TB and I had to click the GPT option for it to work properly. The first time it made only 2TB of the drive usable, but I redid the process with that option and it worked. I can't thank you enough!

Thank's a ton man! Searched for the solution for ages. Actually skipped your video once because it started with you recording your screen with a camera but then you actually had a screen recorder :D

If you go into DISK MANAGEMENT and the disk is shaded black instead of blue 1)Right Click the black shaded area and select NEW SIMPLE VOLUME 2)Choose EXFAT to format if you want to store files larger than 4gb on your new disk 3)If you want to move this external HD between PC and Laptops, rename it to DRIVE x, y,z (your choice) It just stops conflicts if you have more than 2 drives on your PC and / or laptop

Thanks a lot. You saved a lot of my time after trying many other videos. You are a real hero!

hey man your the the best... I was trying for ages to get my dynamode mass storage portable device working. watched all the you tubers with fixes to no avail... until I came across your tutorial .. and BANG it worked..i wouldn't mind but this was supposed to be a brand new product plug and play straight out the box..THANKS AGAIN******

Thank you very much for a well done tutorial. I just received a new 1TB WD My Passport external drive and I did not see it listed. I knew there was a way to do this but I had forgotten how. You just made my day.

u are a true life saver and i want to thank you for the bottom of my heart for giving us this info. i got mine off of ebay.. and all i had to do was the last step since it was already clean out and black

Excellent work. Many thanks. Note that one can just leave the Win7 Computer Management/DiskManagement window open, and after "clean" step, do Action/Refesh, then right-click on the Drive #, and do the Format then. Again: many thanks for recovering this drive to working order.

If your drive is spinning, but is still recognized in disk management the sata adapter may have gone bad just as mine did. I bought a new enclosure on amazon for $10 and now it works.

after watching a ton of videos, this is the only method which has worked for me (i bought a second hand drive - it was wiped). Thanks :)

Awesome video... I also found one dumpster diving.. mine is 931 GB !!! These instructions were easy as pie... very cool!

Though I'm yet to apply the tutorial, I must say that i love the video, the explanation and everything. It's cool. As soon as I get back home I'll apply all you've taught. Thank you.

Awesome! I followed your video and I could get back my external WD My Passport Ultra HDD alive and working. Thank you so much!

thank you after a year of this hard drive not working you made a simple to the point video thank you now my wife can be happy lol

OMG, thank you thank you thank you! Already had to find a tutorial to get rid of the USB code 52, then this. I was about to give up hope, and I'm in DESPERATE need of some extra storage. You saved my life tonight. Thank you!

Thank you for the video. You explained everything so well for me to getting my WD My Passport 1TB to be recognized on my Windows 7. I had been working on this for endless hours. I followed you to the end and got it done the first time and it work great. I was very excited to accomplish this task and thank you so much!

Your tutorial video is ABSOLUTELY AMAZING. I did followed your instructions step by step and worked just like it supposed to be like new. Thanks a bunch man!

when i click clean, said that virtual disk service error: Clean is not allowed on the disk containing the current boot,system,pagefile, crashdump or hibernation volume. Please help me to fix it.

Thanks very much - My WD My Book Studio Ed II was doing the exact same thing - no matter how many times I tried installing & removing it just wouldn't show up. I bought off eBay and thought it was busted - Many thanks I now have 4tb of empty storage to fill!!

Just want to say thanks it seems the WD Elements drive is susceptible to losing its partition. It may be a few people are not disconnecting their drives properly from their PC's and Tvs without proper un mounting. Eject or power down don't just pull the usb plug this might be one of the things that happens. Thanks again tipps:) us newbies appreciate the clear instruction.

FIRST CLASS how to video. About as clear as clear can be! Thks loads!

Thanks for the video! I had a hard drive that I removed from a PS4 and put in a HDD enclosure that wouldn't show up on my PC. Following the steps in your video, I was able to get it working!

I was having the same issue, this video solved my problem. Only thing I would say is to just show the steps. There's too much talking going on and we're waiting 30 seconds to a minute for the next step.

thank you very much. i faced the same problem. by following your method i could fix it. so very much thank you. take a bow man.

Love you 🔥. Thanks left a like and a follow. I was making the mistake of always selecting short videos but then took a chance with your longer video. It all makes sense coz u took ur time and explained each step. Patience paid off. Great video 🔥

This is the legit problem solver. Thanks for your video I was able to use my Hard drive across my devices.

I have the same problem, and i cant wait to test it now ... but I want to save my data ... is there any method to do that ? Thanks

incredible video, makes my touro 1tb works again, thanks mate !

The lessened space is not due to any system files or any other data stored from beforehand.All storage devices manufacturing companies account for 1GB as 1 billion bytes.That is because they account for 1KB as 1000 Bytes whereas it should be 1024 Bytes as so on.This is done for convenience in calculations.Thus it adds up to create such a huge difference which we misconceive as a deduction in space.

Super stuff.. worked like a charm.. I just followed the steps as shown by you in this video and hurray.. my HD is back now.. thank you very much Just for others reference My HD was not detected by windows. I was able to see the HD under Disk Management and Device Manager. I used Easeus software to recover data before going ahead as this process will clean everything.

You are pure genius sir! My WD external drive now working! Thanks.

Thanks! Out of all the time I spent looking for solutions this is the only one that worked.

If you need to backup anything on the drive connect it to a chromebook if possible. Might work on linux as well but I couldn't tell you for sure. You could just run a VM with chromeOS and connect the drive to that.

Thank You sooooo much. Worked like a Charm and now I can install my new drive. Great video.

Worked like a charm. I should have been able to figure this out on my own but you saved me a ton of effort!!! Thank you!!!

thank you so much for this video. I bought a Seagate off ebay with the exact problem. You are a life saver sir. bravo.

Thank you so much. I thought I was going to have way more trouble then it was. It's very important to explain everything if one mistake is made it could wipe the main drive.

I tried my Nexxt drive and is said clean is not allowed on the current drive. I tried this because my windows 7 does not sense it. I am using it to connect to my wifi

Thank you very much! This helped me have my computer recognize my brand new 4TB western digital on windows 10. Thankfully as soon as I opened Admin tools then disk management it automatically popped up to initialize it. It's crazy that it doesn't do that automatically.

awesome it worked for me! thanks! hated the fact that i needed to go into disk management to assign a drive letter(EVERYTIME I CONNECTED IT) now it finally sees it and does autoMAGICLY!!!

Thank YOU!!!! Spent 3 hours trying to get my 2tb Passport Ultra to work, this did the trick!!