When you connect a hard disk when the system is on or connect and disconnect your hard disk without properly shutting down your system your hard disk might face problems like Your hard disk not showing up and it will show as unallocated as shown in the below image. Even though you have not formatted your hard drive or done anything that might erase any data ( Don’t worry your data might be still there). This happens when some of the main data on your hard disk becomes corrupted.
Fix / Recover Data from Unallocated hard drive without losing data in Windows 10
If it is only the location data, we can use software to scan our hard disk and find the partitions and then mount it to get access to the data.
In the screenshot below you can see the Disk 3 is Unallocated. Don’t format the unallocated disk as the data is still present only the Drive partition mapping got corrupted. So we will use a free software to scan the drive and find the partition data.
Step 1: Download the Find partition and mount software from here and install and run the program. You will see the below user interface.
Step 2: Now click on the drive name which is showing unallocated and choose the scan and use the intelligent scan option first.
Step 3: It will run for a while and if it doesn’t find the partition choose the drive again and choose the Other scan option which will take much longer than an intelligent scan. Now wait till the software scans all the partition data and if it finds the partition, it will show like in the image below with partition 1, partition 2 etc.
Step 4: Now You can see that the Partition 1 and Partition 2 are just small partition. They will not contain the data. So select the partition with the largest volume.
Step 5: Now click on the partition volume and select Mount As.. option at the top bar of the software and give your drive a letter like D or E .
Step 6: Now your drive will be mounted on the letter selected and it will show up on windows 10 file manager.
Step 7: You can now access the data from your unallocated disk.
Frequently Asked Questions :
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Hope you were able to recover data from the unallocated drive on your Windows 10 system. Do let us know if you have saved your data. If not, don’t worry, you can try free or professional recovery software (if your data is valuable too valuable) to see if the data is still there and recover important files.
