Hello everybody!
This video will show you how to recover data from an unallocated area in a hard disk (HDD
or SSD), an external hard disk, USB drive or a memory card (SD, microSD etc).
Unallocated area of the disk is
the area which is not assigned to a volume or
partition.
Such area will not be shown as a local disk in your operating system’s Explorer.
However, there could have been a local disk before in such area.
Such unallocated area in a disk, USB drive or memory card can appear as a result of:
• deleting partitions in any disk manager (such as Windows Disk Management, or Norton
Partition Magic, Paragon Partition Manager, Acronis Disk Director Suite, EASEUS Partition
Manager, AOMEI Partition Assistant and so on);
• deleting partitions when reinstalling Windows,
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• installing another operating system on the computer;
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• creating a partition which is smaller in capacity than the physical device;
• increasing or reducing the system partition size;
• encountering an error or powering off the computer while working with partitions;
• converting the file system.
So, let’s begin.
• Suppose we have a disk containing some files.
• As a result of the actions we mentioned above, or due to other circumstances, this
disk was deleted and now there is some unallocated area instead of the disk.
In Windows Disk Management window, this area is now marked as “Unallocated.”
• When you go to This PC, you can see such disk is not shown.
Which means that the files and other data on such disk are lost.
Let’s see what can be done in such a situation.
How to recover the lost files?
First of all, don’t hurry to create a new volume and format this unallocated space.
It can prevent successful data recovery, which we will do later.
In order to restore files from such unallocated area in a disk, USB drive or memory card:
• Download, install and launch Hetman Partition Recovery.
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• In the left pane, the program will show a list of all available local disks, as well
as all physical disks connected to the computer.
• In my case, there are two disks: Seagate and SanDisk.
• In the Disk Management tool, I can see that the unallocated area that I need is located
on a disk with the capacity of 75 GB.
• In the program window, I can see that it is the Seagate disk.
It means that I will recover the lost files from this particular disk.
• To do it, I click on it in the left pane of the program window.
• By default, the analysis type is Full.
Next.
• I will have to wait until the scanning process is complete.
It will take some time, and this time depends on the disk capacity.
• As you can see, Hetman Partition Recovery has found the disk partitions.
The one found in the unallocated area had the capacity of 37.11 GB and was named “Local
disk.”
• Let’s find it on the list of found disks.
• Open it.
• As you can see, all lost files and folders are there.
• You can use the preview window to see their contents.
All you have to do is to click on a file.
To recover the files and folders you need: • Select them.
• And click Recovery button.
• Choose the media • And the folder for recovery.
• Recovery.
• Ready.
• The files have been recovered.
Now you can create a new volume – a local disk – in this unallocated area.
To do it: • go to Disk Management
• and right-click on the unallocated area.
• Select “New Simple Volume” • and create one following the New Simple
Volume Wizard directions.
If necessary, you can also extend one of the volumes in this disk.
To do it, right-click on it and select “Extend Volume...”
Then follow the Extend Volume wizard directions.
That is all for now.
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