In this technology-driven world, we have become highly dependent on machines and electronic gadgets. Most of our work like communication, development, and designing is done now with computers. They are the prime sources of storing our useful and important data apart from the online spaces (cloud storage). However, such dependencies have also created the risk of getting our data lost or corrupt which could be due to so many reasons. Today, we are going to talk one such discrepancy of our hard drive.
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Our hard drives have adopted a unique way of storing our valuable data. They create partitions (we call it drives) in the storage units where the operating system stores all data. If a hard drive becomes damaged due to external or internal reasons, it becomes impossible for the operating system to read the content. Consequently, we as a user cannot view data, and it becomes nearly impossible to recover the lost data. The problem is generally known as an unallocated hard drive. We will discuss about a few ways to recover unallocated partition data from hard drives or external hard disks.
First, let’s understand why this issue happens.
Reasons for data loss due to unallocated space in hard drives
Virus attack
Virus or malware attack is amongst the most common causes of data loss and hard drive malfunction. A virus attack can hard drive to be corrupt and consequently resulting in data loss which is hard to recover.
Reinstallation of OS
Trying to install or reinstall OS on your computer could also result in unallocated data loss. This situation mainly occurs due to the installation of pirated Windows or a corrupt pen drive or CD.
Sudden power outage
A sudden shut down of the device due to a power outage can result in data loss. Although a general restart solves the problem majority of times but sometimes it might cause a permanent data loss which might need you to follow the steps mentioned below for the recovery.
System crash
One of the most prominent reasons for permanent data loss due to unallocated space is a system crash. It can severely affect the hard drives to situations where it becomes extremely tough to recover data.
Now let us look at the ways through your data from unallocated hard drives could be recovered.
How to Recover Unallocated Space Data from Hard Drives
Format the hard disk
Simple formatting the unallocated space can fix the issue in a minute. If the lost data was something that is not so much important like song files, then you can use the format option. However, you cannot directly format unallocated space in hard disk. You might use the Disk Management option to create a new partition in order to format the unallocated partition.
Note: Creating a new partition might overwrite the existing data and result in permanent data loss which cannot be recovered through any software or any company.
If you have any issues regarding data recovery from unallocated spaces, you can reach Data Recovery Mumbai, that is amongst the top companies in recovering data in the most complex situations.
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