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My book not initialize external drives for pc wd community. Hello, so we recently moved our my book to another computer and it did not show up in my computer so checking in disk management it is showing as not initialized and when i try to initialize it as either a mbr or g something it would not. I cannot remember if i have used it before on a mac or not. If disk 1 is unknown not initialized unallocated, what can you do. I just bought and installed a wd 1110 on my desktop.
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