GPT for hard drives with a capacity larger than 2 TB.When assigning the drive letter, be sure that it’s different than that of hard drives that are currently in use.In these cases, they get formatted and are assigned a drive letter. Some external USB hard drives don’t have the option to be initialized.Right-click the disk that says Not Initialized or Offline, then select Initialize Disk or Online.Click the Windows icon, type Disk Management, then click Create and format hard drive partitions.