Very good video, absolutely clear explanation

but not indicated for Unallocated Space with DATA on it

0:09 / 8:11
Recovering Unallocated and Locked Hard Drive Volumes (Win7 and XP
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Recovering Unallocated and Locked Hard Drive Volumes (Win7 and XP tools).

Nothing to download, using only Windows 7/XP tools.

It's a simple process; you launch the DIsk Management Utility, right-click the volume and create
a new one.

This doesn't always work. Sometimes volumes can be locked for secure boots and system files. In
these instances you need a windows utility named 'diskpart' and a couple of commands.
Namely; list volume, select volume and delete volume. There are more commands, but these
should be enough without getting too complicated.

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354 Comments

1738 Creations
3 years ago
Thanks for all the comments. Considered not uploading it as I wasn't sure the video would have
been of use. Glad it's not just me who had this problem!

LeTetSpiN
2 years ago
+1738 Creations My friend gave me his old EX 2TB, said if I can get it to work I could have it.
@2:11 made it all happen
Thank you, your the best!!

LeTetSpiN
1 year ago
+Roblox, Thexicuiter Just a shot in the dark... it might need to be reformatted for your OS sense
it's showing to be active.

MrSawayaa
1 year ago
+1738 Creations
awesome video dude thanks tons

boali alaimi
1 year ago
thx to you <3

sillyladtan
1 year ago
I just wanted to personally thank you so much for this video. I've been looking into trying to do
this for a while now and not a single site pointed out that you could do this perfectly fine
without the need of additional software. The last thing I need is more junk on my machine, it's
infuriating how deceptive they can be.
Anyway, thanks again and have a great day!

Tom Strzyż
1 year ago
Thanks. I love how there's a smarter person or a person who already figured something out
before you. Some people don't like that but I like it's since it's inevitable.

Tom Strzyż
1 year ago
same!

Christian Soto
9 months ago
YOU SAVED MY LIFE

John Smith
9 months ago
Your live must not be worth much, because a new 1T is about $79.

Master Chief
8 months ago
Tnx 2 yrs ago still wrks

Your pharmacist - ‫طبيبك الخاص‬

3 months ago
I didn't know that i can recover data from an unallocated space so i didn't .. instead, i
have done the following:
I created a "new simple volume". then, at the window in time 6:24 i unchecked the format
option .. Is my data lost now ?

Chrissy Wilcox
2 years ago
For those of you who are having trouble with partitioning anything above a 2TB
- You need to right click on the volume in the column on the left hand side of the
Disk Management screen
- and then click "convert to GPT disk"
You may have to delete the current volume if the option doesn't appear

PhantomHT1320
2 years ago
+Chrissy Wilcox
bingo bango, that was what i needed, thanks dood. - "convert to GPT disk"

john may
2 years ago
+Chrissy Wilcox
FUCK ME MAN!!! WHER CAN I SEND YOU 5 BUCKS BRO.! I have been up 4 hours trying to fined
this simple stupid answer. GOD DAMN MAN!. THANK YOU! hope life treats you well.

Chrissy Wilcox
2 years ago
all is good.. just pass the info forward.. it took me damn near as long to find the answer myself!!
lol

Alphonzo Ramone
2 years ago
+Chrissy Wilcox
men thanks :D
Свилен Николов
7 months ago
I am NOT Worthy!

Richard R
6 months ago
Thank you Chrissy =)

sheer. awesomeness
4 months ago
Thank you Chrissy your solution worked and still works on windows 10! thank you!

Joseph Morgan
2 months ago
I'm assuming converting to gpt is only possible if you have another disk with windows installed
because its blank -_-

SephOgreThe3rd
1 month ago
Masterful comment!

Biz Execc
3 years ago
Hey thank you so much for this video. I am a exhausted and not sure if you warned that your
data would be deleted upon completing this as mine is not empty. A - did you warn me because
if you did I need more sleep then i realize. B- any tips on recovering data or is it all gone?

parker Azz
2 years ago
My drive did not show up under the command promt but it's under disk management as
unallocated..
So I can't do any thing

Deepak Maini
5 months ago
parker albritton hey I am currently facing the same issue... How did it work out for you... Plz help

Thomas Townsend
2 years ago
thanks for your help I was really stuck.
Joshua Boanerges
1 year ago
my hard drive is write protected, how to format it???

Pramod Mishra
9 months ago
i can help u with write protection

Dimitri Balerinas
2 years ago
My options are greyed out and I cannot choose to delete my volume cause the volume itself is a
3T HDD from which im using 2 (almost full) and the 1 TB is unallocated. Is there any way to
unlock it without destroying my 2TBs of data? :/

Davettiger
2 years ago
I saw that ANUSPANDA
.....Lol'ed

BiBi Kvachadze
1 year ago
Thank you so much, you've helped a lot!!!

Pate Dabea
3 years ago
thanx@

Nakul Tamang
6 months ago
HI ADMIN, MY HDD IS NOT DETECTABLE ANYWHERE ACCEPT IT GETS LOCATED AT DEVICE
MANAGE AS EXTERNAL HDD BUT ITS NOT DETECTABLE USING DISK MGMT OR CMD OR ON THE
DRIVES WINDOW... HOW DO I GET IT WORKING? PLEASE DO REVERT..

Deepak Maini
5 months ago
Nakul Tamang
I am facing the same issue... Plz help me if you know the way out.

Nakul Tamang
5 months ago
Sorry buddy, Deepak Maini, i tried all the possible ways to get it work. Did not happen... 1738
Creation.... at least revert back if u have the alternative option or not....

Daniel Rhodes
1 year ago
I really dont want to format the drive

Max Chan
1 year ago
Thx for the vid really helps a lot
May I ask where did u learn this from?

1738 Creations
1 year ago
Combination of MSDN and about 13 years of testing experience. I'm a game tester. Very
busy, technical and underpaid job. Which is why I can't respond to the majority of comments.
Either working, sleeping or trying to get more money.
Takes a lot of reading but if you've got a spare machine you can test on, MSDN can be infinitely
better than any of the misleading answers you'll find on StackOverflow.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/library/ff794606(v=winembedded.60).aspx

Max Chan
1 year ago
Thx for the reply. I see then, im currently using windows on a mac so im finding as many
technical guides as i can, ill try MSDN on my spare PC, which is still running duo core LOL.
Anyway, thx for your guide and god bless you.

Ml Verma beetu
2 years ago
i am not able to format my hard disk partition

Muhamad Syarifullah
2 years ago
thanks for safe my live �

HammerHand
3 years ago
Thanks man you saved me a lot of time researching

Λndrew T Baptiste
2 years ago
good show my good man, you saved me

xAs
1 year ago
unallocated drive recovery without formatting

AB
2 years ago
Hey, buddy, thanks a lot ......................................... really, this is so helpful & detailed ..... Thanks
again & keep sharing your knowledge like this always. Thanks.

Prince Jain
2 years ago
My 2TB external hard disk has suddenly become unallocated ,it has around 500-600 gb of very
important data.What should I do to recover it? Reply ASAP plz

RETRO Nuts
2 years ago
I have a 1 TB drive that works fine on windows 7 but on windows XP its unallocated..?

Wrathborn771
2 years ago
+Spanner Nick
Me too. Works on OSX but not 8.1. Did you solve it?

sharad vaidya
2 years ago
+Wrathborn771
apple and windows use different hdd format types isn't it ?

Katie Warman
2 years ago
Your video was REALLY helpful. Thanks!

Austinpspds
11 months ago
When I right click the unallocated part of the drive it has everything blocked to choose except for
properties and help help me

Tech Central
1 year ago
Help my ssd partition deletes just a bit afterwards

That Dude There

2 years ago
I'm trying to SAVE my data on my unallocated drive!

Erick Hernandez
2 years ago
Were you able to save your data? If so please tell me what you did because I got valuable
information in that hard drive

Kristen Rosin
3 years ago
I could literally kiss you at this point. I have been dicking around with my new external
harddrive for hours, this video solved it in 2 minutes and 40 seconds, you are a wizard.

Bill Woo
2 years ago
All should note the comment below by +Chrissy Wilcox explaining that you
may need a "GPT disk." This is flatly required for me to go over 2T on
my Win 7. It was gray for me in disk management, but I "CLEANed"' the
disk and reinitialized in Disk Management to set up the volume(s) from
scratch. It presented the choice of MBR (Master Boot Record) or GPT (and
by the way MBR was pre-selected). If you are over 2T, choose GPT.

Bill Woo
2 years ago
This led me to the answer - I am grateful - but not exactly as described in the video or
comments. I had gray on everything. diskpart was useless. Then I discovered LIST DISK and
SELECT DISK 1 in diskpart. From there - BE EXTREMELY CAREFUL, ONLY PROCEED IF YOU KNOW
WHAT YOU'RE DOING - use CLEAN instead of DELETE. This virginalizes the entire physical drive -
in my case, drive 1 (since drive 0 has C: and more). Then you can initialize and do everything else
you want in Disk Management.

Bill Woo
2 years ago
In my case, I had innocently clicked 'yes' to allow Intel to create a RAID disk of my drive 1 (I
should have said 'no' for my purposes), and had to go to BIOS and nervously undo that. That left
me with, on drive 1, a rescue partition, a copy of drive C: made by the RAID process, unallocated
space (1 or 2 TB) that I COULD make into a drive(but not expand), and unallocated space (3 TB)
that I could do absolutely nothing with. At that point I proceeded with diskpart for CLEAN. In all
of these operations, I and you should proceed tremendously carefully, like you're handling
dynamite.

Bill Woo
2 years ago
One other note, the 11 G recovery partition made by the RAID, copied from drive 0 to
drive 1, was somewhat indestructable. diskpart crashed when attempting to delete that
volume. Then I solved both that, and rescuing unallocated space, with CLEAN.

Corey Miller
1 year ago
+Bill Woo
I was struggling big-time until I saw your post... Thank you SOOOO much! LIST DISK and
CLEAN was the only successful method for me.

Oktanowy
11 hours ago
This don't work on LOCKED Hard Drive.. WD5000LUCT. My drive is locked by ATA Password and
this method not working..

sexy boy
5 days ago
bad

anxel
1 week ago
I wanna fix because almost 800GB have dates, my hard drive is an western digital 1TB External
drive

rajendra ahire
1 week ago
Helped me so much

Roger Sneddon
1 month ago
Thank you so much. I've spent all bloody day trying to sort this.

TheDestinedOne Bonobo
1 month ago
Thank you so much the first step worked for me
JamRocka X
2 months ago
You sir, are absolutely appreciated!!!!! Thank you very much.....!!!!!!
Also, if you have more than 2TB,
- after you delete all volumes using diskpart, right click on the drive (the square that
says Disk 3 in this example) and click "convert to GPT"

SAIM RIAZ
2 months ago
Great video. Amazingly helpful.

Tommy Le
2 months ago
I was downloading a game onto my d drive (1Tb) then suddenly it disappeared off of my
computer. What do I do.

Aarish Shaikh
2 months ago
FINALLY YOU SOLVED MY PROBLEM .....THANKS A LOT BRO :)

Solly
3 months ago
Idk why a program ate 50 gb of my hard disk rofl

fareed hehe
3 months ago
thank you very much

Your pharmacist - ‫طبيبك الخاص‬

3 months ago
I didn't know that i can recover data from an unallocated space so i didn't .. instead, i
have done the following:
I created a "new simple volume". then, at the window in time 6:24 i unchecked the format
option .. Is my data lost now ?

North Dakota
3 months ago
thank you !! i was having trouble with my micro sd card and this video saved the day !

GODLike (iamyourGuardianAngel)
3 months ago
Horray its work!!! thank you very much Sir i am not good in a computer by watching this great
usable video it really helps alot.

S_L_A_Y_E_R
3 months ago
YYYYEEEEESSSS, Thank you.

akash dk
4 months ago
This is really good !! It worked

anallely avalos otero

4 months ago
I'm having the same issues, the seagate is detected but I can't access it, I have an LG tv and it
used to recognize the drive just fine and now it just says "loading....."
I have a Seagate Wireless Plus (1TB), it shows next to drive C, not under but next to. I click on it,
but it doesn't give me any options and it says "Correct, recovery partition." What should I do?
Thanks in advance for the help guys.

stephen pineda
4 months ago
cant locate my 1tb internal hdd,,,im still using it yesterday but today i dont have any access to it,i
cant even search it

TrAp GoD
5 months ago
in command prompt the volume is not listed but the disk is listed

Mohan m
5 months ago
Thanks its works ************

super pol
5 months ago
Hi i have WD Elements 1tb external now its unallocated, it shows the size of 2tb, red color
downward arrow appears above offline. Can't go offline or create new partition. Kindly suggest
any solution.

moses92
5 months ago
i can see my unallocated space is there.....but i want to recover the files from it how to do so..?

Hcouch Designs
6 months ago
Thaaaanks

Avesh Mishra
6 months ago
thanks alot man, saved my life ;)

James E. Austin
6 months ago
Awesomeness, it worked!! Thank you!

Isaac Soto
6 months ago
The only problem I have is that the entire hard drive is unallocatd and says unknown and does
not initialized plz help me my hard drive 1tb

Araiz Ashraf
6 months ago
Nice but after new volume wizard setup as i click finish i got error there is not enough space on
disk to complete this action any help

Dale M
7 months ago
I just saw this even though it was posted over 3 years ago. I used the technique you showed to
save a 4 TB hard drive that I had tried everything to recover, include Spinright. Thank you.

Acro Newt
7 months ago
Thanks so much this vid was very helpful

Sylvia Stevenson
7 months ago
I wish I could speak with you. I'm trying to clone a SSD TO replace my IDE HDD. I was able to see
it in disk mgmt, but unable to do anything to it. I went through your steps in DOS, but the disk
doesn't show there at all. So, I'm trying to find a way to refomat it and start over to do the
clone.

Ali Maarouf
7 months ago
Thank you so much..
u the man���

Shivam Joshi
7 months ago
bhai window data sam delete hui ko kaise located kara

muhammad bima
7 months ago
thanks dude, you save my day....

Arif Moledina
7 months ago
thanks you so much

Vivek Gupta
8 months ago
THANKS GOT MY PEN DRIVE ALIVE.

Uthayakumar Shanmugam
8 months ago
My external hard drive is invisible even in disk management. How can I do. thank you in advance.

Jose R
8 months ago
Awesome! I thought I bricked my usb drive thanks a lot for the tutorial.

SOLDbyYOU YES!!!
8 months ago
Toshiba 3 tb brand new external dh... 3 TB and 20% is unallocated....this video works... for the
the easy fix...I paid for a 3 tb... but can only format and use 2.2...from my perspectice thats fraud

Infinite Octopus
8 months ago
Nice! Thanks, this worked on Windows 10. Only difference was that I could only format it to
FAT32, but after that, I was able to format it again, to NTFS. Now it's usable again. :)

Haroon Amari
8 months ago
it s solved . thanks for helping
Robert Amiel Reyes
9 months ago
THANKS MUCH SIR!

SB_REAL
9 months ago
thanks

pvpi kj
9 months ago
when i open disk management nothing comes up.. i need help plz im new to this stuff

Ivan Renata
9 months ago
many thanks dude

Alex Darkling
10 months ago
thanks man

Meher Appigatla
10 months ago
Thanks a lot. It worked. I had this problem 'cause I used it on my friend's Mac without
partitioning. And this helped. It being a new hard drive, I could format it. Thanks, for real.

Romit Jha
11 months ago
Thank you for helping.

Phrischil
11 months ago
thank you very very much

Praveen Udayakumar
11 months ago
worked great for me. thanks bro

Zoro Gaming
11 months ago
You need audio
Richard Bennett
11 months ago
thank you for your info bless up.

Shadow Heart
1 year ago
I found my old PC and wanted to see what files I had in the HDD just for a nostalgia trip. The old
PC doesn't work and I plugged in the old HDD inside it into my current computer. But I need to
format it to be able to use it. I want to see what files are in it first before reformatting. Any idea
what to do? My current PC (Win10) tells me to allocate the HDD, but that will format it.
P.S. This old HDD is not the main HDD in the old computer so it doesn't have Windows installed
on it. It is the secondary HDD used for family files, old programs and what not.
P.P.S. The old computer had Win XP in its main HDD- which I have formatted it already
Cheers.

DJ MANN
1 year ago
thnaks a lot it worked so easily

sohail malik
1 year ago
thanx

Aberran Fox
1 year ago
thank you was skipping the delete volume step. I just don't have this problem often enough to
remember everything i guess.

Ellleventy Ellleven
1 year ago
I have a 4Tb hard drive, and even brand new, it would show up as two parts, 2tb and 1.6tb

Goutham Das
1 year ago
thanks a lot man love ya..

SupaDexta
1 year ago
it has stopped working and the fs is fat32
SupaDexta
1 year ago
when ever i try to delete any volume

Mostakim Dewan
1 year ago
thanks

Dave Eredeti
1 year ago
dude your awsome thnx alot!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Raconteur Short Stories

1 year ago
M in greater trouble...
I was installing Ubuntu and some how... My entire internal HDD is locked or something... It can't
be detected by Ubuntu and. Windows is gone

Aswin P
1 year ago
thanks man. this video is very helpful.

Devon Carman
1 year ago
I have a 2TB WD Passport, the HD shows up in computer management as unknown, not
initialized, and unallocated. When i right click on it "new simple volume" is greyed out and not
an option. So when in DISKPART after the command "List volume" the drive does not show up on
the list at all. Any help is much appreciated!

Dato Genius RK
1 year ago
succefull thnkq

Jordan Fagan
1 year ago
Thank you so much. This done exactly as described and I'm on windows to just to point out.

Matthew.Allan.Roome
1 year ago
Thank you very much dude !!!
Heaven Doors
1 year ago
Please teach me this for windows 8. Thank you.

Fire Spitting Kid

1 year ago
For me when I right click it comes up but not the volume thingy is grey I can't click on what do I
do? Plzz respond?'

lord ely evangelista

1 year ago
You are Star! Thanks for sharing your knowledge

teja teja
1 year ago
disk part.exe is restarting

GA_Hat _Trick
1 year ago
Thank you for making this video!

Halim Idris
1 year ago
when i type list volume the drive status is unuseable ? can someone help me .? thanks

JEG's Garage
1 year ago
Perfect! Using the command prompt tool I was able to get the space back and the drive works
perfect! One of the best videos I found!

Jhyzone
1 year ago
Did you lose all data in the drive after formatting the drive?

JEG's Garage
1 year ago
It was a drive that was previously used, and I formatted it as a second drive. Half of it was locked
up, and this made it all available. So I cant say if it would remove data...but any time formatting
is involved it usually involves data loss. Dont take my word for it though.

A Moradi
1 year ago
Thanks for great video. I'm facing a strange issue. When I attach my External drive (Seagate 1 TB)
the icon in task bar pops up (which allows you to safely remove the media) but it doesn't show
up in disk management as a volume (I only see disk0 which is my hard drive). I can see it in
"device manager" under disk drives but even there when i click on properties, in volumes tab
disk/type/status/partition style etc all shows "--".
in diskpart also it doesn't show up. could you please suggest any solution?

Jean-Paul Nicophene
1 year ago
Doing New Simple Volume Wizard... won't that reformat it? Deleting everything on it?

DeAndre Marshall
1 year ago
I can't get to windows trying to install new windows helpp

xAs
1 year ago
i make windows 7 bootable pen drive by mistak my external 3 tb hard drive already selected in
power iso i started process 2 tb became an unallocated other 726 is located how to recover my
data without formetting??????????

Alan 60
1 year ago
Yo man it works, I was just about to format my drive thinking that it was infected by a malware
or virus. Glad I found this video of yours. Thanks a lot. 2 Thumbs Up!

Jhyzone
1 year ago
Hi. After following the steps on this video did it delete all data after formatting the drive? Just
curious to know. Thank you.

Carl Delfin
1 year ago
anything that says or involves "formatting" with hard drives, it deletes all files in it

Moana Reid
1 year ago
Thank you very much for this video, helped me a lot.

M2 slow
1 year ago
Thanks

j4l4k
1 year ago
tq man its really help

Nina Patel
1 year ago
great help. thanks for the clear instructions

Merlin Cønrad
1 year ago
Thanks for the video

Kyler Butler
1 year ago
I feel like I tried this when I first came across this problem a couple of months ago, but now that I
ran out of disc space on my SSD and needed my HHD to work I really appreciate the video and
help. Works for windows 10 as well if anybody wanted to know.

Amir Miza
1 year ago
Very usefull, i try to search other video its useless

Jorge Bartolabac III

1 year ago
you made my day bro.... i dont know how to delete it but this one help me a lot thank you very
much

Steve Brown
1 year ago
Good call on the diskpart utility.

bnbard
1 year ago
Thanks bro. its work!!!

Redouan Djeebet
1 year ago
at 2:09 it doesnt let me click on "new simple volume..." im stuck help :(
Redouan Djeebet
1 year ago
Oh actually never mind i found out how to fix this :)

- Mr.PuffPuff
1 year ago
how did you fix?

Redouan Djeebet
1 year ago
uhm it was a while ago so i dont really remember.. :/
but i was just messing around with some buttons and it worked

- Mr.PuffPuff
1 year ago
+Redouan Djeebet
oh thanks anyways :)

Tanuyama Tanuki
1 year ago
thanks dude it works :D

Swompthing
1 year ago
thanks it sort of works on win10 too.

Paixão Augusto
1 year ago
Life's savior

Double B
1 year ago
Just helped me in 2016 and I use Windows 10!! thank you

nelmark villar
1 year ago
Thank you men :) Really helps a lot

Dennis Greencorn
1 year ago
Great Video, have used this in the past but had forgotten all about it till your Video, now I have a
properly functioning HD I can now clone my older HD to. Everything worked great. Thanks...

Abhishek Kadupatil
1 year ago
thanks 1738 Creations. your video just help me to recover my 100GB of unused memory
space.thanks a lot.

Daniel F.C.
1 year ago
SAVER

Remagify
1 year ago
Thank you!

Art Hughes
1 year ago
Worked great on windows 10 as well thanks!

george maclean
1 year ago
Thanks bro. Your vid was very useful to me!

hanh cong
1 year ago
thank very good <3

Yeah
1 year ago
thx bro you saved me

boali alaimi
1 year ago
i do this compte just for say thx to you

boali alaimi
1 year ago
Thx for the vid

boali alaimi
1 year ago
thx i love you i hope to be the president of united state very very thx

kiran gurav
1 year ago
thanx alot bro . its working great ....... thanx

Kim H
1 year ago
Thank you very much, you saved my day

igotapinktrenchcoat
1 year ago
omg thank you so much you saved me from buying a new flash drive <3<3<3

Hammad Akram
1 year ago
thanks bro

michael dela cruz

1 year ago
@3:22 nothing show.

Prince Gondane
1 year ago
It will work on professional windows 32 bit

Hamza Jassar
1 year ago
Thanks kind sir, you saved my life!

parnika poddar
1 year ago
All my disks are partition and none is removable. How do I figure out which is my hard disk?
PLEASE HELP.

Alexey Zozulya
1 year ago
Thanks man!

Ruan Du Bruyn
1 year ago
Diskpart stopped working and then restarted

Satish Kumar
1 year ago
Thank you very much, It pretty works neat. Cheers

Rain
1 year ago
Thank you so much

Fairuz Selamat
1 year ago
Hye, I have a hardisk that barely use. The pot is broken. I havent use it since 3 years ago. I
Changed the case and is said all the space is unallocated. Seems like the hardisk is totally empty.
is it possible?

JrTheRealKing
1 year ago
thank you so much I really appreciate this, it worked like a charm for me

y[a]yan g[a]ming
1 year ago
access denied ? plss help me it wont work . plss help me :(

Nuclear Bastion
1 year ago
THANK YOU SENPAI. My externel hard drive that my uncle bought me as a chritmes gift work
now again THANKS

dibbers
1 year ago
Thanks man.

george dall
1 year ago
NICE TUTORIAL !!
IS THE SAME FOR WINDOWS 10?

Marshall
1 year ago
Thank you, have a good life.

Flori Jak
1 year ago
thank you

Gr8 Guy
1 year ago
my disk appears in mgmt as unallocated but not in cmd , weird :)

Arun JP
1 year ago
Hi there, I need your help,
I wanted to shrink a partition and create a new Unallocated volume...
I did every thing right, but the partition I tried to shrink was not healthy (at risk sign was
displayed).
So after shrinking I got the msg The disk is not healthy. and I lost the other part, the new volume
that comes after shrinking.
plz help me to recover that..

hammoud Ahmad
1 year ago
Thanks very much

ZAZI SAMADI
1 year ago
Thanks for your help

TTOOMM2
1 year ago
thank you

Japie Janse van Rensburg

1 year ago
Phew...all I can say. Thanks for the video!

Jon Livingston
1 year ago
Thanks for the video. I was able to rescue my unallocated space on a USB drive without
downloading more software by using what's already in Win 7.
Mafalda Cacciottolo
1 year ago
What do I do if my drive shows 0MB? I know I have more than 50GB worth of data! I did all of it,
doing partition and so on but I cant get my files back. Please help

vishesh prasad
1 year ago
what about the data even though i recover the drive i lose the data right ??

sanjay behera
1 year ago
My ps3 detects my 500 gb HDD FAT32 but my pc doesnt all it shows is expansion drive in devices
and printers and in disk management it shows unallocated no option for "assign drive letter"
and the drive isnt partitioned

Our time is now.

1 year ago
thanks that works for me

Carlos Berríos
1 year ago
Awesome! thankkkkksss :D

Ointment3d
1 year ago
This was really helpful. Had a 128 gb thumb drive that I wanted to use as a Windows recovery
drive. Not knowing that Windows formats the drive into a fat32 format and leaves the rest of the
drive as unallocated, left me researching the Internet for hours trying to fix it....until I came
across this video. Problem solved after just a few minutes! Really appreciate all the help. Thanks
a lot!

dmw282
1 year ago
Didn't work for me, the options for the unallocated space were all grey so I couldn't use them.
any advice?

MOHANAD A.HASSAN
1 year ago
Thank you....

Talishmar
2 years ago
A failed OS installation (which I wiped out) created a recovery volume that's completely locked
down, and trying to delete it with diskpart just causes diskpart to crashs instantly.

Humble Muslima
2 years ago
Thanks for sharing this video. I'm hoping maybe you could help me out. I have a Toshiba 1TB
external hard drive that two computers at home stopped recognizing. When I plug them in any
USB the computers recognize something was plugged in and they show it as an external USB 3.0
drive but that's it. I can no longer access the files and the computers don't recognize it. My
personal/business computer is the only one I can work with because I own it, the other is locked
to my kids school so I can't do any troubleshooting there. My personal computer was recently
upgraded to Win10 and a few days later my hard drive isn't recognized.Basically, I've tried all
kinds of partition recovery and data recovery software and none of them helped. I even tried
opening my hard drive and swapping the green chip (forgot its name) and replaced it with
another adapter and it still doesn't recognize my external drive. I've read many forums/blogs and
I'm still stuck.When I go into Disk Management, it locates my external drive as Disk1 unknown,
and not allocated. When I right click on the right side area, all of the "volume" options are
greyed out.

Nitin Kumar
2 years ago
My hard drives are not shown in Disk Management and not even when it try to install windows
on it . what can I Do I just want my data back doesnt matter if it works again or not I'll buy a new
one

‫پ‬.‫پ الف‬.‫الف‬
2 years ago
Thank you

Thomas Philhower
2 years ago
I think it sucks.
Your title was covering up the instructions.
Unless it's the small screen or what I couldn't make out the first and some time the second line.

Mona English
2 years ago (edited)
Thank you so much for the video. When I type " list volume" the hard driver doesn't appear at all
(All other hards or volumes appear but not this one). Yet, it appears in the Disk management as
"Not initialized" and "Unallocated". When I try to initialize it, it says it can not because of I/O
error. Can you help please?

JRav
2 years ago
Thanks!!! It worked...

CamoGhost
2 years ago
omg thx soo much i thought my hdd failed

Rocco S
2 years ago
THIS VIDEO SORTED MY PROBLEM STR8 AWAY THANKS ALOT BRO !!!

idiolla septaviasmi
2 years ago
wow ,,, nice trick than programmable trial ,,,i have try simple step but not deep like you. actually
thanks

César Brasil
2 years ago
Thank you so so much! Very helpful, problem solved :)

Fireskullbutt
2 years ago
did not work for windows 10 my day has gone great
(sarcasm)

Lee Rose
2 years ago
Great video thank you

gamer one
2 years ago
please help me.
my problem is the flash drive is not showing in my computer, but its showing in device manager.
and its write protected.
my flashdrive doesnt have any lock button.
ive tried "regedit. diskpart attributes disk clear readonly, clean, create partition primary" and
failed...
i tried this and mine says "diskpart has encountered an error: the media is write protected. see
the system event log for more information"....
are there any other options to fix my flashdrive?... if youre reading this, thanks

Drudan
2 years ago
Thx! It worked!

limabean13
2 years ago
Thanks so much - it worked like a charm. :-)

MudasirGaming
2 years ago
i download assassin's creed 3 on uttorent its percentage was 62.0% and i leave it i go to tution
after i come it was 76.0% and it got error write to disk and i open my computer there was only
one disk "C" first i have "C","D","E" then D E where gone i right click on my computer go to
manage go to disk management there was only one drive C where D and E Gone assassin's creed
3 was in D disk D is invisible plzz........ help

Victor Ribeiro
2 years ago
Excelente!!! :)

PreserveOurParadise.Org
2 years ago
Thank you thank you thank you. I have been struggling with my C drive getting full and having
all this extra space on the D drive. I backed up all of the data on the D drive and then followed
your instructions and now I have all this space on the C drive. Thank you so much.

galal salama
2 years ago
i have i question please
for me the removable volume is 0B what is that mean?

Miclau Alin
2 years ago
thanks

Tom Lee
2 years ago
Nicely Done. It has been a long time working on storage and I forgot about "override" parameter.
Thank you.

xIxN00BxIx
2 years ago
+1738 Creations
Thanks for the video well edited. Unfortunately, it didn't solve my problem.

CanadaMan12341
2 years ago
Thanks for the help :D

far745
2 years ago
thanks a lot man... i was like a noob in pc

clanghead
2 years ago
wow thanks you saved me a huge headache!

RC Monster Machines
2 years ago
Awesome it worked !!!!!!

Abhishek Kaushik
2 years ago
Hi everything is good with your video but what do I do about the lost do? could it be recovered
now after formatting? thanks in advance

kiana lynn
2 years ago
I have an external hard drive that says offline, and I cant' turn it back on. I've tried everything.

Dehumanizer Lord
2 years ago
i think i fixed the drive but it says that i need to format it so i can use it. I have some files that i
don't want to erase so is there a way to save them?

Charles Hill
2 years ago
It worked for me, so Thank You so much for the help!
Ganesh Phad
2 years ago
thank you my pendrive unlocated problem fix..i m very happy...

MrAntojin
2 years ago
Help... i've tried almost everything. I have an external hard drive (Transcend StoreJet 25M3 1TB
on a windows 8) and it won't appear anywhere. It's not unallocated, it's not locked, you can't
find a partition of it and it doesn't appear on "disk volumes" with the command prompt.
It's correctly connected to the computer (usb 3.0) and it charges.
It works on my mac, but it doesn't work on this computer....
Any ideas? Thank you :)

Prasant Sahu
2 years ago
Thank you...

Earth Eater
2 years ago
Thank you for the help, much appreciated! :)

Ray Rodriguez
2 years ago
YOU'RE A LIFE SAVER!

Nick J
2 years ago
Thank you so much for uploading this. It was easy to follow and solved my problem.

Victor Mcvic
2 years ago
Thnaks mate!

JMcAfreak
2 years ago
On computer: ANUSPANDA-PC.

vaffanculo924
2 years ago
Thanks. After recovering data from the old HDD, I needed to clear it. I have a hunch that it
became unallocated because it was a hard drive from XP.
Apple Juice -
2 years ago
Thanks so much! from 32GB back to 128 GB!

MrSquidman007
2 years ago
Thank you, my good man!

Janis Perkons
2 years ago
Thnaks mate!!!! :)

AlexGoralczyk
2 years ago
This worked.. but lost over 400gb worth of video files. RIP

Henry Urbina
2 years ago
Thank you soooo much man!! It took me forever to get my storage space back.

Delovan Delawer
2 years ago
you've literally saved my life! least thing i can do is THANK YOU.. Very much.

Asheesh Tiwari
2 years ago
thnx you saved my life :)

Royleta Foster
2 years ago
This was verry helpful. I was able to recover the space.

Buasfe
2 years ago
Thanks this worked now I have lots of space free! ty

Royar
2 years ago
Hey , Thank so much really :D
David Higgins
2 years ago
Hey there! I just wanted to add my thanks on top of everyone else's - I had some USB drives that
weren't playing nice and the GUI wasn't letting me clear the volumes. This video gave me
everything I needed to get the job done :)

amol palkar
2 years ago
hi thanks for the video , as soon as I plug the hard drive , I can not launch any recovery software
programme , it hangs and as soon as I remove my hard drive , it pops ? What could be the issue ?

Robert Hansson
2 years ago
Thx a lot helped me just bought a 2 TB hard drive and <3 and it all worked

Marsvinking
2 years ago
It works but i get kind of irritated when it says to access this then fricking format it i need to
check these files

Ling Que
2 years ago
I fixed my external drive with this command. Thanks a lot!

Emmanuel Tannoh
2 years ago
my drive did not show up in the disk managment but did in device manager ? any help ma sir
now?

willman18696
2 years ago
Good stuff! Lifesaver, thanks!

Amrendra Sharan
2 years ago
Thanks dude. This video is really very nice and helpful,,it is awesome.

Squall Ranger
2 years ago
I follow all the steps but at the end it says..."The format did not complete successfully" and i still
can't use my WD My Passport 1TB. Please help me.
William Levasseur
2 years ago (edited)
Tried your method... Diskpart crashes when I try to delete the volume.

John W1ck
2 years ago
Thanks a ton man !

James H
2 years ago
great video massive help

George Muresan
2 years ago
thanks! it solved my problem.

Adelton Nunes Nascimento

2 years ago
Excelente tutorial. Consegui recuperar o volume total do meu HD externo que tinha se perdido
depois de usar a formatação normal do windows pois de 500 GB meu HD tinha reduzido para 32
GB, mas seguindo o tutorial consegui recuperar todo o espaço.

Nero Ky
2 years ago
Thanks, this was very helpful!

Octopus Pancake
2 years ago
I'm having a problem similar to this but unsure how to make the entire drive one whole partition
since it's my only hard drive currently. I recently purchased 1 4 tb hard drive to replace my old 2
1tb drives. I don't have access to the old drives to fix this issue though. Anyway during the
windows installation I tried to stop the install, but it just sat there. So I hard re-booted the
computer. Now I have half a hard drive that's usable, the other half is unallocated and I can't
combine it with the remaining partition to make it one solid 4tb drive again. It's in 2 unallocated
spaces, 2tb and 1.6tb. I'm at a loss. I formatted my drive after installnig windows 7 the first time
priorto looking up this solution. So I have to re-install windows 7 currently to get access to the
tools to see if I CAN do this with only 1 drive, that is the win7 bootup.

Octopus Pancake
2 years ago
oh, I forgot to mention whenI attempt to partitionthe remaining 1.6 tb it gives me an error
stating: Failed to create a new partition on th selected unused space ERROR 0x80042468

chandra prakash Bahuguna

2 years ago
thanks buddy

Monti Almatani
2 years ago
mine says object to found why Help

MrAntojin
2 years ago
I have a big problem... when I type "delete volume" diskpart automatically stops working! It
doesn't allow me to go any further.... Help please!

Domestos Bleach
2 years ago (edited)
Had to use the delete volume override feature which worked a treat,so thank you very much my
friend.

musicaman68
2 years ago
Thanks a milliom. I was able to save some HDDs that were going to be thrown away. This video
tutorial is awesome.

Anthony Vierra
2 years ago
I have an issue with my computer restarting when I try to wake it from sleep then gives me an
error 41...do you know how to fix that?

ThuperDuperMan
3 years ago
THANK YOU SOOO MUCH!! I was wondering what had happened to my 2 TB hard drive then I
found this video and now I love you!!

Tito Santana
3 years ago
Awesome sauce! Thanks!

Dan fret
3 years ago
Thank you so much!

Shawn Wheeler
3 years ago
Thank you! Most helpful

Rui Couto
3 years ago
Thank you so much, it worked :D

Joshua Holme
3 years ago
I have the same problem except the bad partition is on my one and only 4tb primary drive and
by the looks of this method I think it wipes the entire drive. anyone know what I should do?

ZanderChin
3 years ago
Same here. Any help?

Some One
3 years ago
mine wont even come up saying undetected :(

RSMith816
3 years ago
TY TY TY!!! Almost gave up when I was unable to do anything under windows disk manager.

Aliaksandr ###
3 years ago
I found how to make two unallocated become one hard drive(one volume). I did not follow it.
You can move your mouse to Disk (number) and the click left>then "Convert to GPT Disk"

mattj8929
3 years ago
I have a 500 GB external hard drive originally formatted on a mac. I had used up about 35 GB of
the drive while using it with the mac.
I wanted to reformat the drive for my PC. I connected the hard drive to my PC but it could only
be seen in disk management. The only option disk management provided when selecting the
drive was "delete volume". So I deleted the volume and then reformatted my hard drive using
the quick reformat option in disk management. My hope was after reformatting it for windows,
disk management could provide me with more options to fix the drive because it could actually
be read by windows now.
That was not the case. The lost 35 GB was not listed anywhere under disk management. Just 200
MB listed next to 465 GB. So I opened up diskpart and deleted the 465 GB, no problems there.
Then I tried to delete the 200 MB volume in diskpart but an error message came up. Diskpart
shut down and the 200 MB went untouched.
I have no idea what to do at this point. Can I even recover that 35 GB because I deleted the
volume? Could I try reformatting the drive on mac? Maybe if reformatted on a mac it will include
the 35 GB into one volume because the mac can read it. Then I can delete the volume on my PC
and have the full 500 GB available for reformatting?

Rahul Roy
3 years ago
I have 250 hdd but it show only 200 gb pertition what could i suppose to do

TechSync
3 years ago
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! I had a USB drive that was stuffed up and tried ages to fix it using disk
management but it didnt work, now u saved me thanks! Liked and faved!

Michael Manning
3 years ago
What happens if I have 4 hard drives. 2 seem to disappear. I get one back by assigning a letter in
disk management. The other wont let me do anything. I can open the disk up in paragon hard
disk manager/ volume explorer all my files still being intact. I go to command prompt only 3 of
the volumes come up. I list disk all 4 disks show up. ANy solutions?

AtomicmonkeyTCG
3 years ago
Thanks man, I wrecked my dads SD and fixed it by doing this. Very helpful!

Prapare your Anus

3 years ago
Man i love you ma n i love you a lot ! thank you man thank you so much !

Shah Iskhandar
3 years ago
if i create new one what happen with existing file in my ext hd?

Desert Heart Vice

3 years ago
please help! i cant locate my external hard disk using disk part

1738 Creations
3 years ago
Can you find it in the disk management tool?

Fractions1234567890
2 years ago
+1738 Creations no

connor ball
2 years ago
+Andrew Marchuk im having the same problem. please advise

Fractions1234567890
2 years ago
+connor ball
unable to find hard drive in disk manager. Ultimately assumed that the PC usb slots are the issue
and not the hard drive itself

Arslan Kiyani
3 years ago (edited)
But in my case the external hard disk i plugged in is not showing up in the disk management
section. When i plug it in, it initialize, detect and then it don't show up in my computer neither in
the disk management but it shows it as detected. I have some important data on it and i don't
want to lose it at all, Could you please help me in this regard? I shall be very thankful to you.
Hoping to hear from you soon.

1738 Creations
3 years ago
I had an old 250 GB drive which did the same thing, I figured it was dead.
- If it doesn't appear in disk management then, as far as I know, it's game over.
- Worth checking different USB ports or plugging it in another computer if you
can. If your BIOS can detect USB drives then it may be worth a shot seeing if it appears in
the BIOS. But that's all hoping for the best, I'd assume the drive is dead but the USB
interface still works.

Arslan Kiyani
3 years ago
+1738 Creations
Well, thanks a lot for your response. Actually i got it working again. I opened it up and came to
know that the drive is ok but there is some issue with USB interface. Therefore, i replaced it with
the new casing and its working fine now.

Nikko Mallari
3 years ago
i had follow all ur instructions,,but in the end theres error ocur
and my hdd still RAW please help ;[

1738 Creations
3 years ago
Sorry for the delay, I've been away. What's the error?

ALI JAFRI
3 years ago
My disk is not initialized.How do initialize it?? And in disk management it does not even show
that its online!
what do I do??

wlado922
3 years ago
good job,you are the MAN!!!!

Heemanshu Sahoo
3 years ago
Thanks a lot for the help.i searched in the net before for the solution but did not find anything.
But finally your video did it...

Ivan Richard
3 years ago
thank you so much, your a life saver :)

sudnifnatipac
3 years ago
very clear and useful. Thank you!!

Zuber Vohra
3 years ago
Dude you are awesome. Thanks for the fix.

kabazzi isaac
3 years ago
I have a 3tb expansion drive but even with diskpart, the unallocated volume (about 750GB) wont
indicate to be deleted (on your screen it showed unusable drive). I can only keep partitioning or
deleting the other 2 TBs. don't know what to do

1738 Creations
3 years ago
Got a ton of sticks here but not sure how I'd recreate that, however... you could try going
through the process again (list volume, select volume) then try: create partition primary
Hopefully that will unlock it and you can format it properly. Though you may end up with 2
partitions on the drive, so you'd have to merge them.

kabazzi isaac
3 years ago
thanks. but this was a bit complicated and not possible through any ordinary methods. sea-gate
has a firmware that i just used to fix it --turns out that this is a factory default as long as the drive
exceeds 2 tb so you always have to go through them using their firmware

kabazzi isaac
3 years ago
in case anyone else has issues like mine, this is the seagate discwizard download link
http://www.seagate.com/support/downloads/item/discwizard-master-dl/

Musa Tricker
3 years ago
Did u partitioning

kabazzi isaac
3 years ago
yes +Musa Tricker.
i used the seagate firmware

Musa Tricker
3 years ago
So how u big BRO I miss u..u get so lost

IamKDog
3 years ago
I also have the same problem with my new 3TB WD Red. 2048GB which I can work with and
746GB which have options greyed out and the solution with diskpart can't solve the problem.
After removing 2048GB partition using "remove volume" whole disk disappears from "list
volume".
Lokken
3 years ago
+Hin3KH What did you do? I'm in the same situation. Thanks.

IamKDog
3 years ago
I figured it out. When you click on your new disk to initialise it (the button on the left stating
Disk#, Basic, Volume, Online) you get two ways to format it. The first one is for HDDs up to 2TB,
leaving you with two partitions (one 2TB and second 0,7TB unusable and the second one is for
larger ones which gives you one 3TB (2,75 real space).

Lokken
3 years ago
+Hin3KH
Thanks!

dmcampbell30
3 years ago
Hi, if I can't type a bloody thing in "diskpart.exe", am I in big trouble re data recovery?

1738 Creations
3 years ago
Saw a post on OverClockers where a dude had the same problem. Apparently if you wait long
enough, a good 6 minutes or so, then it may start working? Not sure what would be causing
that; maybe a dieing hard drive, big RAID array or a slow USB stick?
If it were an administrator problem I'd assume DiskPart wouldn't even launch. The program is in
C:\Windows\System32\diskpart.exe if you want to try running as an administrator or in
compatibility mode.

António Coutinho
3 years ago
for some reason diskpart stops working when i hit delete volume. Any ideas why?

1738 Creations
3 years ago
Not sure, never seen it myself. If it's an EFI partition I've heard you may need to use 'CLEAN'
instead of 'DELETE VOLUME'. I don't have any way to test it here though. If "clean" doesn't work,
maybe "clean" then "delete volume"?
Failing that, I'd guess either the drive may be in use or it has some form of protection (physical
switch or custom software installed on it by manufacturer).
From the MS help files: "You cannot delete the system volume, boot volume, or any volume that
contains the active paging file or crash dump (memory dump)."

Joe Gasz
3 years ago
You are a god among men

Zero Envase
3 years ago
i've search so many videos about how to fix an unallocated hdd and i cant find a better
tutorial to fix the problem. and thank god i found this video and now my external hdd was
running good and displays now under computer...

Fred Coco
3 years ago
thank u sooo much young blood,u really saved me from a lot if trouble,bless u buddy.

Sha-mal Moltio
3 years ago
Thanks for this share! ;)

sk choudhary
1 week ago (edited)
my mistake hdd password please help me thank you

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