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Created February 2, 2017 18:29
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Use diskpart to online, initialize, and format disks
diskpart
select disk 1
attributes disk clear readonly
online disk
select disk 1
clean
convert gpt
create partition primary
format quick fs=ntfs label="data" unit=64k
assign letter=“E"
@modernassist
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Thanks much; i am about to use this script right now...

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ghost commented Aug 30, 2020

ive been looking for this too long. thank you

@nicholasxng
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Kudos, my Data disk has been giving me fits and I don't want to keep rebooting. Hopefully, this is the cleaning it needs.

@alvonellos
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Thank you. This helped me to refer when I was cloning a disk using Acronis and needed to initialize it in recovery first.

@ziggywireless
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This helped me recover my disk - step 3 was the key

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