Create New Simple Volume in unallocated space without formatting

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I have an old Samsung SP0802N 80GB IDE hard disk, I tried to connect it to my laptop using IDE to USB converter but nothing shows up in the file explorer. The hard drive is detected by the system and I've also initialized it as MBR but it still doesn't show up. It shows as unallocated. Can someone explain why is the OS unable to detect the files in the disk? The HDD originally was a Windows XP bootable drive.

Also when I right click on the unallocated partition and try to create New Simple Volume, there appears an option 'Do not format this volume' as seen in the image, so if I select this option will I be able to see the data of my hard disk, or the recovery of data has to be done using recovery tool only.

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Please, explain the difference.
 
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It would create empty unformatted volume with no data inside.
Formatting would make this empty volume ready for use.

Do not create partition and do not format it, it will reduce your chances of recovering your data.
What you can do:
1st - try Minitool partition wizard free. It has partition undelete feature.
https://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html
2nd - if partition undelete can't do anything, then use GetDataBack and try to recover your data.
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What would happen if create the volume by selecting the first option 'Do not format this volume', will it retain the data? What exactly is the difference between the two options in the image?
 
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it will create another unallocated partition like you have created 50GB partition and chose not to format it it will create the partition but there is no data in it and its not usable untill you format it

As i mentioned your old data is already gone when you have deleted the partition you cant recover it now
 
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It would create empty unformatted volume with no data inside.
Formatting would make this empty volume ready for use.

Do not create partition and do not format it, it will reduce your chances of recovering your data.
What you can do:
1st - try Minitool partition wizard free. It has partition undelete feature.
https://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html
2nd - if partition undelete can't do anything, then use GetDataBack and try to recover your data.
 
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