Today my computer restarted and when it turned back on I wasn't able to access my second internal hard drive. I went on disk management and got a message saying I need to initialize disk to access the hard drive (https://i.imgur.com/IFSSu80.png). I tried using different ports for the hard drive and different wires but nothing is working.
My question is there any way to fix the hard drive without initializing it. Also, if I was to initialize it and run a recovery program for my files but the recovery program didn't work, am I still able to send it off to a professional to recover my files or would I have to do that before initializing the hard drive?
Thanks
My question is there any way to fix the hard drive without initializing it. Also, if I was to initialize it and run a recovery program for my files but the recovery program didn't work, am I still able to send it off to a professional to recover my files or would I have to do that before initializing the hard drive?
Thanks