You can recover files from unallocated space using AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional if you have deleted partition accidentally.
“Recently, I plan to copy some files from the Seagate external hard drive to my computer with Windows installed. But I can’t see it in Explorer. I open Disk Management to check out the status of it but find that it shows as unallocated space and the connected SD card has one partition allocated. I realize that I have removed the partition on the external hard drive somehow, although what I want to clean is the SD card.
There are lots of files on the Seagate drive and I don’t want to lose them. How to recover files and data from the unallocated space after partition deletion? I’m looking forward to your advice.”
When your drive becomes unallocated after deletion, you can’t even access the external drive from File Explorer, still fewer copy data from it. Fortunately, deleting partition just gets rid of the partition information (file system, partition style, size, etc.) and makes it invisible, rather than make the partition and data saved on it gone forever. Therefore, it is not so tough to retrieve the partition and recover files from unallocated space.
In order to restore partition and recover data from unallocated drive without failure, don’t run make any write operation to the unallocated space, such as create a new partition with the unallocated space.
And then you can employ a great partition recovery tool – AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional. It enables you to recover deleted partition effortlessly and all files on the partition will come back automatically. Now, you can download the AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional Demo version and give it a try.
Here are the detailed steps.
Step 1. Install the software and run it. In the main console, hit on Partition Recovery under the Recover menu.
Step 2. On this screen, click the disk that you want to recover and click on the Next button.
Step 3. Select the partition that you want to restore and click Proceed.
PS.: If there are multiple deleted partitions on this hard drive that you want to recover, choose them and you can restore them at once.
Step 4. Here you need to choose a way to search between Fast Search and Full Search. Then, click Next.
PS.: The first way is recommended as it takes less time. If it can help you out, then you can try Full Search.
Step 5. When seeing Congratulations!..., you can click Finish to exit from this window.
Notes: β If the recovered drive has no drive letter, you won’t see it in Windows Explorer. In such a condition, you need to assign it a drive letter. β With this software, you can recover files from unallocated space caused by partition deletion. But if you want to recover files from a formatted or corrupted partition, turn to professional data recovery software. β AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional can be supported by Windows 11/10/8.1/8/7, XP, and Vista. If you are a Windows Server user, turn to AOMEI Partition Assistant Server.
How to recover files from unallocated space, if you have deleted your partition mistakenly? Now, surely you have got an answer.
If the partition that you have removed is boot partition, your computer will be unbootable. In such circumstances, you can use AOMEI Partition Assistant to create a bootable media on a working computer, boot the computer whose boot partition that needs recovering from the created bootable media; after booting, you’ll be in the main interface of and you can do as steps listed below to recover boot partition.