Usually, we would see the external hard drive show as “ Unknown , Not initialized ”. Sometimes the disk capacity is displayed and sometimes the disk... | By AOMEI | Facebook
![External hard drive does not show up on Windows 7 - Disk Management says 'You must initialize a disk before logical manager can access it' - Super User External hard drive does not show up on Windows 7 - Disk Management says 'You must initialize a disk before logical manager can access it' - Super User](https://i.stack.imgur.com/3Eaky.png)
External hard drive does not show up on Windows 7 - Disk Management says 'You must initialize a disk before logical manager can access it' - Super User
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