External hard drive unallocated disk space after windows-repair function?
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Hello, I have a huge problem.
After my external hard drive gave multiply errors, some friends suggested to use the "repair" function, this is when you right click on a drive > properties > tools > error checking
So I did, after some Google-ing it said no data would be touched, so I decided to use this function.
It said I had to restart my PC, after it was done so I did.
Now, I restarted my PC, plugged it in again and it doesn't show up, so I go under computer>manage>disk management and see it's now "Unallocated disk space".
It said it wouldn't touch any of my data, why did it ?!
(PS: I know I should right click it, create a new volume but would I then get my data back? Before i do anything else that's stupid )
I really would love some help getting my data back, it has/had some important stuff for school on there, and backups of my laptop, phone, website and more.
Please help me out,
Kind regards
-Siem
[i]Before I forget :
Specs :
Windows 7,
The external drive : Verbatim 500GB External drive, 467 useable[/i]
Error checking only deletes corrupted files. If all the disk space is unallocated, your best bet would be to create a new volume then use Recuva [url]http://www.piriform.com/recuva[/url] to see if you can salvage anything
[QUOTE=djjkxbox360;37595978]Error checking only deletes corrupted files. If all the disk space is unallocated, your best bet would be to create a new volume then use Recuva [url]http://www.piriform.com/recuva[/url] to see if you can salvage anything[/QUOTE]
first create a volume, then run the program?
Regards
[QUOTE=djjkxbox360;37595978]Error checking only deletes corrupted files. If all the disk space is unallocated, your best bet would be to create a new volume then use Recuva [url]http://www.piriform.com/recuva[/url] to see if you can salvage anything[/QUOTE]
Creating a new volume would corrupt the file descriptors and severely reduce the chance of recovering files.
I would suggest using a program like Active Partition Recovery:
[url]http://www.partition-recovery.com/[/url]
They have a bootable ISO somewhere, but the Windows version works just as well.
[QUOTE=bohb;37598648]Creating a new volume would corrupt the file descriptors and severely reduce the chance of recovering files.
I would suggest using a program like Active Partition Recovery:
[url]http://www.partition-recovery.com/[/url]
They have a bootable ISO somewhere, but the Windows version works just as well.[/QUOTE]
Thanks, I will try that and post results later
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Well, sadly it doesn't show up the external hard drive, what should I do now ?
Any help, please?
[QUOTE=Siemz;37600544]Thanks, I will try that and post results later
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Well, sadly it doesn't show up the external hard drive, what should I do now ?[/QUOTE]
Remove the drive from it's case and connect it into your PC. Run the suggested applications above again.
[QUOTE=Drumdevil;37612395]Remove the drive from it's case and connect it into your PC. Run the suggested applications above again.[/QUOTE]
Thanks for your reply, I tried but sadly still nothing :'(
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