Cannont Initialize Hard Drive On Windows 8 ONLY

vladjerca

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I recently performed a clean installation of Windows 8 on my PC and now I cannot initialize one of my HDDs ( The drive works perfectly on Win7 ).
Disk Management sees the HDD as "not initialized" and Windows sees the HDD as having 0 bytes.

Some suggested to try allocating a Drive Letter using DiskPart, but I couldn't as Disk 0 has no volumes.
I also read on a forum that someone managed to solve the problem by plugging the HDD into another SATA port ( this did not work either ).

Here are some screenshots with the errors.

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My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8
    CPU
    AMD FX-8120
    Motherboard
    ASUS M5A97 R2.0
    Memory
    4 x 4 Kingston Hyper-X 1600MHz
    Graphics Card(s)
    Sapphire AMD HD7850
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