3 Ways to Fix Damaged Not Initialized Disk That Cannot Be Initialized The truth - the disk boot part is damaged or the partition table is lost in the disk/usb external disk or some other damages on the disk that needs to be fixed. Sometimes, when you right click the damaged disk in disk management and select the option to initialize it, it would pop up a box telling you 'Access is denied' Scenario #2, failed to initialize disk and reported initialize disk access denied failure When the disk shows unknown, it would not grant access for the disk since it could not be recognized in disk management when you double clicking the unallocated disk, trying to access or open it. Scenario #1, access is denied for unallocated not initialized disk before the initialization

When you try to initialize disk in disk management, it would report 'Access is denied' to stop you initialize the disk.ĭisk not initialized access is denied Why Access is denied, cannot initialize disk? Mostly damaged disk could not be initialized and sometimes it would report 'Initialize disk access denied' when you try to get it initialized in disk management or using cmd diskpart or some other software to initialize disk. Initialize Disk Access Denied Fixings - 3 ways to fix disk cannot be initialized