Error in initializing Disk1 in Server 2019.

Question

Hello all,
I am facing an error in initializing my Disk1 in Server 2019 Standard. "Initialize Disk" option is grayed out thats why whole disk is unallocated. pls help me to find the solution. Disk is

combination of many hard disk drives.

Answer 1

这个问题可能是由于多个原因引起的，你可以考虑从以下几个方面入手：

**检查 RAID 配置：**如果这些硬盘驱动器是通过 RAID 组合在一起的，确保 RAID 阵列已经正确配置并且所有驱动器都正常工作。

**重新扫描磁盘：**在“磁盘管理”中，选择“操作” > “重新扫描磁盘”，看看是否能识别到磁盘。

**更新驱动程序：**确保所有硬盘驱动器的驱动程序都是最新的。你可以在设备管理器中检查并更新驱动程序。

**检查硬件连接：**确保所有硬盘驱动器的物理连接正常，没有松动或损坏的连接线。

**使用命令行工具：**尝试使用 diskpart 命令行工具来初始化磁盘。打开命令提示符，输入以下命令：

diskpart

list disk

select disk 1

clean

convert gpt

这将清除磁盘并将其转换为 GPT 格式。

**检查磁盘状态：**在“磁盘管理”中，右键单击磁盘，选择“属性”，查看磁盘状态和详细信息，看看是否有任何错误信息。

Answer 2

Hello, Yes, as we have set of six hard drive disks (8 TB each) installed on our server. I also attached screenshots of disk mgmt. interface for your reference.

When I press OK for GPT or MBR, the next error comes "The system cannot find the file specified" and it does not initialize the disk 1.

Answer 3

Hello

Thank you for posting in Microsoft Community forum.

Are the hard drives combined in Raid?

Can you provide a screenshot of the current Disk Management interface?

Best Regards,

Wesley Li