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An Unallocated hard drive stems from various reasons, primarily user-induced. It mostly occurs with individuals new to computers, wanting to install Windows or partition their hard drive independently, leading to unfortunate errors. Although fixing an Unallocated hard drive isn't difficult, the significant repercussion it leaves behind is data loss on your drive.
You're probably aware that data recovery from a hard drive isn't simple, and even if successful, there's no guarantee of recovering all data. Moreover, the recovery process can be time-consuming. However, let's put aside those warnings for now because in this article, Mytour will guide you on addressing the Unallocated hard drive issue beforehand.
Guide to Fix Unallocated Hard Drive Error
Essential Tools for the Tutorial:
- A USB with a minimum capacity of 8 GB
- Instructions on how to create a versatile bootable USB for computer rescue.
Step 1: Firstly, we need to create a versatile bootable USB. Please refer to our linked article above for a simple and detailed guide to help you create the necessary versatile bootable USB to fix the Unallocated hard drive error.
Step 2: After completing the USB boot creation process, restart your computer and enter the BIOS to select USB boot, refer to how to access BIOS here. Here, you select the USB name to boot from.
Note: Each laptop will have a slightly different interface.
Step 3: Enter the USB boot interface and select Windows Mini to start.
Step 4: Inside Windows Mini, the interface of DLC Boot will appear, where you select Disk Tools.
Step 5: Next, choose the software Partition Guru.
Step 6: Select the partition currently Unallocated and then press Partition Recovery.
Step 7: Then choose Whole Disk to scan the entire system, and press Start.
Step 8: The process will proceed, and it will take a considerable amount of time to complete.
During the process, the system may prompt you about overwritten data, simply click Ignore to skip and continue scanning.
Step 9: Afterwards, the interface will display 3 data recovery states:
- Firstly, the software will detect partitions merged by Norton Ghost. To recover, simply press Ignore to proceed.
- Next is the drive C partition. This is the drive containing the old operating system, meaning the OS before you performed the ghosting. You may see its contents as those of a new Ghost file, here select Reserve to restore.
- Lastly, there are the remaining partitions with intact data, including partition names and capacities, all listed comprehensively.
Step 10: After restoring all partitions and data, press Save All to save the results.
So we've just completed fixing the Unallocated hard drive when your drive encounters issues due to accidentally formatting the drive or some other reasons. Through this article, we've learned another useful trick to fix hard drive errors as well as discovered a handy, versatile tool for various purposes.
A more serious issue you may have heard of is a Bad hard drive, which is truly a concern you need to address before it happens to your own hard drive. Additionally, you also need to know how to fix errors on a Bad hard drive when encountered. In this article, we not only discuss how to fix Bad hard drive errors but also provide plenty of advice you should pay attention to.
