Cum de a stabili nealocată externe Hard Disk Drive

Aproape oricine foloseste hard disk-uri externe pentru a salva date prețioase sau pentru a extinde capacitatea de stocare a calculatorului lor. Când încercarea de a utiliza unitatea hard disk, după ce a fost conectat la calculator, observați că unitatea nu apare în „Acest PC“ (Windows 8 și 10) sau „My Computer“ (versiunile anterioare de Windows). Tu faci un pic de căutare extins pentru a vedea ce se întâmplă. În Device Manager sub „driver de disc“, se spune că „dispozitivul funcționează în mod corespunzător“. După aceea verificați în Disk Management și a vedea că unitatea este sănătos. Cu toate acestea, se spune, de asemenea, „nealocată“. Acest lucru se poate întâmpla într-o singură partiție, în cazul în care există mai mult de unul, sau se poate întâmpla în întreaga unitate. Ce inseamna asta? Acest lucru înseamnă că datele sunt acolo, cu toate acestea, nu știe ce să facă cu ea.

• Part 1: Why does External Hard Drive become unallocated
• Part 2: How to fix Unallocated External Hard Drive with CMD
• Part 3: How to Recover Data from unallocated External Hard Drive

Part 1: Why does External Hard Drive become unallocated

There are many reasons that can cause this unusual behavior and in many cases not even an expert can figure out why it happened. Some of the known issues to cause a Hard Drive to become unallocated include:

• Infection with a Virus or spyware
• The Hard Drive is suddenly disconnected from the power supply
• Partitions were created or modified incorrectly
• Installing an additional Hard Drive
• Hardware failure
• Outdated Drive

Part 2: How to fix Unallocated External Hard Drive with CMD

Attempting to fix unallocated External Hard Drive on it can be difficult but not impossible. Before searching for powerful tools that are specially designed for such occasions, you could try to fix it by using CMD and more specifically ‘Diskpart”. Here are the steps:

Note: This method will erase all data on the External Hard Drive but it can make it reusable.

• Open CMD (press the windows key + R and type CMD then hit enter)
• In CMD type: Diskpart and hit enter
• In Diskpart type: list volume and hit enter
• Type: select volume X (X being the drive letter of your unallocated external Hard Drive) then hit enter (you can find out which Drive letter is assigned by looking in Disk Management)
• Type: delete volume and then hit Enter
• Type: list volume and then hit enter (If the tool is not able to create a new volume, follow the steps below)
• Type: select volume X then hit Enter
• Type: delete volume then hit Enter
• Type: delete volume override then hit Enter
• Open Disk Management and try to create a new volume on the unallocated drive and set the file system to get fix unallocated error.

This method might or might not work, depending on what has caused the Hard Drive to be unallocated.

Part 3: How to Recover Data from unallocated External Hard Drive

The method above can bring back to life your unallocated external Hard Drive in most cases, depending on the cause of the issue. However, it also deletes everything on the Hard Drive and it cannot be recovered afterwards. Luckily there is another method which besides the fact that will repair your Hard Drive, it will also recover your valuable data. The software is called Wondershare Data Recovery and it has brought immense improvements in data recovery solutions.

Using Wondershare External Hard Drive Data Recovery is very simple and anyone can do it. Here are the steps:

Download and launch External Hard Drive Recovery software on your computer, follow the next steps to recover data from unallocated external hard drive.

Step 1 To recover data from hard drive, you can select "All File Types" to start.

Step 2 Choose the Hard Drive you wish to recover data from. Click "Start" to scanning lost data.

Step 3 Go to deep scan if quick scan can't find your lost data. The deep scan will deeply search more files from hard drive, but it will take more time.

Step 4 After the scan has been completed you will be able to preview your files.

Hard Drives help us store our most valuable memories and whenever they fail for various reasons every picture, work data and even music collections that have been gathered throughout the years are in danger to be lost forever. Luckily there is a way to safely recover them, so that we can enjoy them forever.