Of course, you’re allowed to create a partition ( simple, spanned, striped, mirrored volume) on this disk and make it appear in Windows Explorer, but all of those actions could bring secondary damage to the original data.
Indeed, an unallocated disk indicates that all of your previous partitions are lost. This is similar to an initialized disk which is brand new and includes no formatted partition. The disk type is Basic, but all the space on that disk has been turned into unallocated now. But if you go to the Windows Disk Management under such circumstances, you’ll find it is displayed here.
When your hard disk drive suddenly becomes unallocated, you’re not able to see it in Windows Explorer. Hope I can be assisted here.Read More Case 1 – HDD Shows as Unallocated I might have some forgotten, yet important files within. What should I do? Although I have not been using it for a while, I wish to check the content first before formatting it. I tested on each, but it is still not working. My notebook has 3 USB ports where according to the manual, 2 of them are backward compatible to 2.0. Plug the device into an available USB 2.0 port." "USB Mass Storage Device is an older USB device and might not work with USB 3.0 I tried "Troubleshoot" and the result says: I also tried to Initialize on MBR, but it returned me with "Incorrect function." message.
Here is the status at Computer Management: Using Command Prompt, it says Disk 1's status is "Online", but size is "0". So I know the problem is most likely on the hard drive. I also tried on other notebook and it has the same issue. Today when I plugged it in to my new notebook that is running Windows 8.1 now, it doesn't detect my hard drive. I have this 160GB hard drive that I have not been using for a while, yet I am very sure it was working fine the last time I used it.
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