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Author: Admin | 2025-04-28
With Disk Management.Set drive onlineTo bring a hard drive online, use these steps: Open Start.Search for Disk Management and click the top result to open the app.Right-click the disk with the "Offline label" and select the Online option.(Image credit: Future)After you complete the steps, if the hard drive was offline and previously configured, it should appear in File Explorer. If the storage was offline but never configured, continue with the steps below.Initialize driveTo initialize a hard drive on Windows 10, use these steps:Open Start.Search for Disk Management and click the top result to open the app.Right-click the disk with the "Unknown" label and select the Initialize Disk option.(Image credit: Future)Under the "Select disks" section, check the drive you want to initialize.Select the "GPT (GUID Partition Table)" option.(Image credit: Future)Click the OK button.Once you complete the steps, this action will erase everything on the drive and prepare it to be formatted if the storage was never initialized.Import foreign driveIf the drive was configured as a dynamic disk on another computer, it will appear as a foreign drive on a different device, and you will need to import it using the Disk Management tool. This process should grant you access to the data without destroying it, but creating a backup of the data is still recommended before proceeding.To import a hard drive with a dynamic configuration to make it accessible through File Explorer, use these steps:Open Start.Search for Disk Management and click the top result to open the app.Right-click the disk with the "Dynamic" label and select the "Import Foreign Disks" option.(Image credit: Future)Under the "Disk groups" section, select the "Foreign disk group (1 of 1 disks)" item.(Image credit: Future)Click the OK button.Click the OK button again.Once you complete the steps, the hard drive will be imported, and the data will be
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