Windows 10: My HDD is not recognized in Disk Management and diskpart, how can I fix this?

Hello,In an attempt to remove the partition in my external hard drive, I attempted to use diskpart to format the drive, however, when running the 'fs=ntfs' command, the HDD seemed to have either stopped responding or disconnected breifly and the formatting failed at 97% no less. Now in both Disk Management and diskpart I cannot see the drive anymore. I am unsure what to do as it seems even though my computer recognizes something being plugged into the USB port I can tell by the sound, I am unsure how to get it so that the drive is recognized. At this point I'm worried it's irreversible.Any

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Installing 2nd HDD, disk management not starting and diskpart not starting

Greetings,

Got a new computer, installed everything last week, everything working out, for reference, running Windows 10 on a 500GB SSD drive, install runs fine, updated drivers, got windows updated, no problems.

Decided to get a secondary drive for storage, a Western Digital HDD, 2TB blue drive. Plugged it in, and its recognized in device manager, with no errors. Tried to start up Disk Management via the Administrative Tools menu so I could initialize/format/partition
the drive, but disk management message states:

"Disk Management could not start Virtual Disk Service (VDS) on [computer name]. This can happen if the remote computer does not support VDS, or if a connection cannot be established because it was blocked by Windows Firewall."

At this point, my research concluded that VDS was either not running or the drive was faulty. I went to services.msc and started VDS manually, and disk management would still not start. Then I set VDS to start-up automatically, and restarted, still no luck.
After some more research, I set Remote Access Connection Manager to disabled, and Remote Access Auto Connection Manager to disabled, then set VDS properties to Auto startup, and then on the Log On tab I set Local System account and checked "Allow service to
interact with desktop" and then in the recovery tab, set First Failure, Second Failure, and Subsequent Failures to "Take No Action." Tried Disk Management again and it still repeats the same message.

After all this, still no luck starting Disk Management. Next step was to verify the drive status. I downloaded Western Digital's Data Lifeguard Diagnostic and everything checks out ok with the drive.

Then i decided to try using diskpart.exe to install the HDD, so I went to cmd.exe and right clicked to run as administrator, with the command line prompt appearing, however when I type in diskpart, cmd displays the dispart info and returns to the cmd line
prompt thusly:

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C:\Windows\system32>diskpart

Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.

On computer: [computer name]

C:\Windows\system32>

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Trying to run list disk results in:

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C:\Windows\system32>list disk

'list ' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

C:\Windows\system32>diskpart

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and it appears that diskpart is not running because I'm not getting a DISKPART> command line prompt. All I want to do is initialize/format/partition this new HDD and start using it as a secondary drive and as far as I can tell, the drive works fine, but
disk management is not connecting to Virtual Disk Service, and diskpart is not letting me do anything with the command line prompt... Help!

 

Disk management console view is not up-to-date

i dont know how to fix your disk management, but i can fix your partition problems...




open up Command Prompt with admin rights. (Right click, run as admin)


enter in
DISKPART
list disk

then find the Disk number for your Raid array... lets call it number 7 ( you can tell what disk is what by the total size)
type in

Select Disk 7
List Partition (will give you a list of all the partitions..)
Select Partition 1 (im assuming you only have 1 partition on Disk 7) repeat this step if you have more partitions.
ASSIGN


that should get the array up and running ready to use.


EDITED.

any problems, post back ^^


Still EDITING *Stick Out Tongue

side question, have you tried restarting the PC?

 

diskpart doesn't show disk

Hey,

I am trying to install Win10 on a mac book air.

However the diskpart does not list the disk even after reformatting the partition as NTFS per suggestion.

read through this solution but cannot move to step 1 listed in the solution by Ivan as that disk doesn't see that partition it was just able to reformat.

Regards