HD is now saying unallocated and won't identify

[Deedee27]

Hello,

My HD was previously working fine and now the disk management says the following. Disk 1 Basic 93.37 GB unallocated. I am trying to recover my data and put it on a new HD please help. I can't lose 20 years worth of pictures....

 

[GhislainG]

If you never backed up your hard disk and you really can't lose 20 years worth of pictures, then send the disk to a data recovery place like OnTrack. You can try some tools by yourself, but only if you can afford to lose those pictures or they aren't worth the significant cost to recover them. It's unfortunate that so many users assume that hard disks never fail.

Edit: If you really want to perform the recovery by yourself, you could make a complete copy to another disk and then try to recover from the copy.

 

[compulsivebuilder]

You should add that when you say "make a complete copy" you mean "use sector-level imaging software to copy the contents of every sector from the drive. Any other form of copy (even Ghost) won't see the data and won't copy it.

 

[GhislainG]

You are correct.