PLEASE HELP!!! How to recover data from UNALLOCATED HARD DRIVE

[rinayukari7]

Please help! How to recover files from an unallocated hard drive? Thank you!


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[nichigo13]

If you really want to recover the files from that hard drive.. unplug it now. lalo mo lang pinaliliit ang chansa mong ma recover yung files jan. defective na yung hard drive wla ka ng magagawa jan.. kung importante talaga yung files dalin mo sa data recovery specialist. they will try to repair your drive and recovery the files. note : data recovery is very expensive

 

[cornibus]

Based dyan sa screenshot mo TS, it looks like your hard drive has a corrupted filesystem table. But still, you can actually try to recover your files although not 100%, even if the hard drive is in that current state. Let me share to you a couple of free opensource tools that are actually effective sa mga ganitong kaso and tama si @nichigo13, there are also some paid tools as well but they are really expensive. Mainly because most of them only run on Micro$oft Windoze.

Yung una at malimit ko ginagamit is a recovery tool called, foremost. It's a terminal based tool that only runs on Linux/UNIX systems (as far as I know) and is very effective. I usually recover 80 to 99% of the user files using that tool. The other tool is called, scalpel. You can run it on Windoze (although I haven't tried it coz I don't use Windoze) but I believe you can only run it on Windoze IF the target drive has an intact filesystem table (it needs to have a drive letter).

 

[rinayukari7]

Thank you po!

Hindi po siya narerecognize ng PC ngayon. Pwede po ba i-format at recover po after?

 

[cornibus]

Hindi po siya narerecognize ng PC ngayon. Pwede po ba i-format at recover po after?

Most people think that re-formatting a hard drive will delete everything in it beyond recoverable. Unfortunately, it would take more than formatting to actually "delete" the files from the drive. To answer you question, Yes, you can actually format the drive 10 times or more or burn it and still recover files from it. Formatting basically just unsets the filesystem, but the files are still written in the sectors and if you use a hex editing tool, you can see the file headers still in the sectors such as JFIF, PDF, LAME, OCTTS, etc. By the way we're talking about mechanical drives here. SSDs are a different case.

I know this is not what you intended to do, but in case you really wanted to wipe sensitive content from a hard drive, one of the most effective tool you can use is a tool called Darik's Boot and Nuke or DBAN. This is what most government agencies in the U.S. use to wipe their hard drives. Another effective tool that you can use is an ax, hahaha. Like really crash the damn thing to pieces.

Now back to your issue. Natry mo na ba diskpart dyan sa hard drive mo TS? Diskpart is a command line tool where you can actually try and "clean" your hard drive's partitions or entire filesystem. You would need to open your PowerShell (CMD Admin) for this. Basically you would only need to run 3 commands for this and those would be (if I'm not mistaken):

> diskpart (this would list all the drives in your computer including all external drives)
> select disk 3 (assuming the disk in question is number 3. Make sure you select the correct disk, if you accidentally select your drive C, say goodbye world to drive C)
> clean (this would clean the filesystem so you would be able to at least re-format and activate the drive in preparation for deep recovery)

Then you can go back to your disk management window and try to format the drive. IF you are still unable to format the drive after doing a diskpart -> clean command, then that means your drive is having a mechanical issue. The last resort and most accessible tool that you can try is the one I told you earlier - foremost. Heads up lang TS, using foremost on a defective drive would take forever and you would only see results if you finish the entire process. I tried this once on a really battered 500GB drive it took me to almost 6 hours to retrieve 86% of the files. And I'm using a computer with a 16-core CPU and 128GB or RAM (medyo matakaw sa CPU at RAM si foremost). You get the picture. Goodluck TS. Cheers!

 

[furyoku111]

Wag mo iformat bawat format mo, napapalitan ang 01 0101 01 codes ng 00000000.... lalong hindi na marerecover yan
saksak mo sa ibang PC... yung akin pagkadetect nya naging unknown file system... ginawa ko, kinonvert ko sa FAT, tapos binalik ko sa NTFS. bumalik lahat. walang nasirang file


WORKED FOR ME.... case to case basis

 

[rinayukari7]

Thank you po! Try ko yung diskpart. Salamat ng marami!

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Di ko pa nasubukan sa ibang PC. Salamat po!