initialize disk "incorrect function"

Question

I just got a hard drive and I'm trying to connect and it's giving me issues.

It's showing up in my Disk Management but it won't let me initialize. I've tried MBR and GPT and both give me "incorrect function" messages. I tried using diskpart to remove protections and I got the message "DiskPart failed to clear disk attributes"

Any way I can fix this?

Answer 1

Hi Liv,

Hope you're doing well.

1. Open "Registry Editor";
2. Navigate to: Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies
3. Right click the WriteProtected key and select Modify. In the pop-up window, change value data from 1 to 0.

Best Regards,

Ian Xue

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Answer 2

Follow https://www.diskpart.com/diskpart/diskpart-failed-to-clear-disk-attributes-3889.html

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Marcin