How to initialize a Hard Drive in Windows 11/10 Disk management is a Windows program allowing users to manage drives and different PC partitions.

Disk Defragmenter does not work? Disk defragmenter could not start or Failed to initialize? Optimization not available? Defrag button is grayed out? See this fix!

In this guide, we'll show you the steps to format a USB flash drive on Windows 11 using File Explorer, Settings app, Disk Management tool, Command Prompt, and PowerShell.

The new drive is functioning and shows up everywhere - when booting, in Windows, in RAID configuration, I just can't initialize the disk with the Disk Management wizard (I'm using XP).