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Recover files from unallocated space External hard drive

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  • Western Digital
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December 31, 2013 1:01:39 PM

I have a 2TB western digital external hard drive that i wanted to open up and put it inside my computer since i no longer needed to go around with it. now i was told that windows would let me use it as is without having to format it or anything since all it had was data on it. Turns out it wasnt just plug n play. the drive wasnt showing up in my computer but it was showing up in disk management. it says the whole drive was unallocated. i didnt touch anything since i was worried i might delete all my data. so i was hoping making it external again by placing it in the shell case, and plugging it via USB port would fix it. but it is still saying the whole drive is unallocated. please i do not want to lose my data. what can i do to see my data once again?

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December 31, 2013 1:23:36 PM

more likely need to recover the partition first.
http://www.partition-tool.com/personal.htm
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August 12, 2014 5:28:00 PM

guitargod1174 said:
I have a 2TB western digital external hard drive that i wanted to open up and put it inside my computer since i no longer needed to go around with it. now i was told that windows would let me use it as is without having to format it or anything since all it had was data on it. Turns out it wasnt just plug n play. the drive wasnt showing up in my computer but it was showing up in disk management. it says the whole drive was unallocated. i didnt touch anything since i was worried i might delete all my data. so i was hoping making it external again by placing it in the shell case, and plugging it via USB port would fix it. but it is still saying the whole drive is unallocated. please i do not want to lose my data. what can i do to see my data once again?


Well, hope this is not too late but let me not give so much hope in this. I had a similar problem some time back. I tried several data recovery software but the funny thing I found is like the software has to find a partition to recover the data from. But since the drive is not partitioned, it becomes difficult to recover the data. Some commercial dealers can't assure me of the safety of the data, whether I'm goin to lose it or not. That's why I'm still keeping my 500Gb hard drive with more than 300GB data I don't wan to lose...sad this. Anyway, I can get back but then if you can still do without the data, you can navigate through testDisk if you are Linux user or for window users navigate to disk management, and probably ur drive is disk 1 as unallocated, right click and select New Simple volume then specify the size of the partition. The default size is the capacity of the whole partition. The specified volume is now allocated and can now show up on ur home
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