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Will initializing a drive wipe it?

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10 minutes ago, Lord Nicoll said:

yes, it will wipe it, only do this for new drives that haven't been used as a general rule

8 minutes ago, SCGazelle said:

oh ok. How can I get it back without initializing it? I guess I'll try replugging it into the motherboard.

it's back. I guess all it wanted was some attention.

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So I was editing a video in Premiere and one of the clips was on a 1tb HDD that is plugged into the motherboard. I tried previewing the clip in Prem and it froze. I thought it was because of RAM (i only have 8gb in this machine, it wasn't full tho) so I tried viewing it in VLC which also crashed (i just needed to get the timestamp for a frame on the clip). I restarted my PC and when I go to file explorer the entire drive is gone. When I open Disk Management it says that the drive needs to be initialized before it can be used. Will initializing it do anything to the data on it? Thanks

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2 minutes ago, SCGazelle said:

So I was editing a video in Premiere and one of the clips was on a 1tb HDD that is plugged into the motherboard. I tried previewing the clip in Prem and it froze. I thought it was because of RAM (i only have 8gb in this machine, it wasn't full tho) so I tried viewing it in VLC which also crashed (i just needed to get the timestamp for a frame on the clip). I restarted my PC and when I go to file explorer the entire drive is gone. When I open Disk Management it says that the drive needs to be initialized before it can be used. Will initializing it do anything to the data on it? Thanks

yes, it will wipe it, only do this for new drives that haven't been used as a general rule

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10 minutes ago, Lord Nicoll said:

yes, it will wipe it, only do this for new drives that haven't been used as a general rule

8 minutes ago, SCGazelle said:

oh ok. How can I get it back without initializing it? I guess I'll try replugging it into the motherboard.

it's back. I guess all it wanted was some attention.

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