One of the worst things to have happen is for your hard drive to go corrupt and be required to find a way to see if you can do a full data recovery. You do not want to hear that all drives eventually stop working and you should back up your files on a routine basis. You do not want to hear this because it is often too late once the drive goes corrupt.

Before you completely panic, reboot your computer to see if you can fix the glitch. If this did not work, then take our hard drive out and hook it up to another computer. If it runs on the other computer, then it is not your hard drive that has failed.

When it does not work, you are likely to be depressed, very depressed. Luckily, not all is necessarily lost. There are ways to recover some of your data; it all depends on how badly the drive is damaged. If you hire someone else to do the work, then you may end up being out thousands of dollars. Worse yet, you may end up being out the money and not have any data recovered. Therefore, do not hire someone, do the work yourself. Unless you have written over your drive, your data is still there. You just have to figure out how to access it.

When you use software to recover lost data, you will want to make sure you select only the drive that is not readable. Then make sure you have a large enough recovery drive so everything can be smoothly transferred from one drive to the next. It will take hours to do a full scan and transfer of a drive. In some cases, it can take days. You will also have to completely reorganize and reformat the files once they are recovered. They are kept in a compact form to save space on your drive.

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Unallocated space in disk refers to a kind of space which is not created with partition currently. They may have complete files, fragments and other files generated by some utility software and operating system. Just like the following interface, the part chose by red box is the unallocated space. 



It is always said that unallocated space emerges because of the loss of partition. If user wants to recover datafile in unallocated space completely, you can take my suggestion using MiniTool Partition Wizard which is a professional partition magic. This is because it is easy to operate MiniTool Partition Wizard, and the most important point is that it is completely free for individual and family users. Before demonstrating how to use MiniTool Partition Wizard, we need to learn something about partition.

With the development of computer, partition technology steps forward constantly. What is called partition technology is actually such kind of technology with which we can divide the disk into multiple working units which are called partitions. In today's world, information technology tends to be a trend. People use partition every day; however, they do not know the advantages brought by partition clearly. Now, we are making a summary for advantages carried by partition:
1. It is convenient for us to make a plan for disk and to manage files.
2. Partitioning disk is conducive to prevent virus and secure data.
3. It is good to enhance the utilization of disk space to part the disk efficiently.
4. It can boost the running efficiency of computers.
5. It can distribute different limits of authority for different users.
6. We must operate in different partitions when we make mirror image partition.
7. It can have creating different file system realized so as to manage files preferably.
That is a brief introduction for partition. Now, I am demonstrating how to use MiniTool Partition Wizard to recover lost partition.

Before using MiniTool Partition Wizard, we need to make a preparation. At first, we need to have this software.Download this software on URL http://www.partitionwizard.com, and then install it on your computer after downloading successfully. You can start recovering partition after notarizing installation successfully. Open and run MiniTool Partition Wizard, and then you can see the following interface: 

Select the disk and click "Partition Recovery Wizard" at the action panel under "Wizards".

This is a welcome interface which tells us this function can recover lost or deleted partition. With choosing "Next", we enter into the next step. 

In this interface, we can choose the right disk where lost partition needs to be recovered. Click "Next", we enter into the next step.

In this interface, we select the scope type of disk scanning. Here, we select "Full Disk" to seek. Click "next", we enter into the next step. 

In this interface, we select method of scanning, and then select click "Next" to enter into the next step. 

This interface shows us the state of losing and existing partition. Here, we need to select partitions needing to be recovered and currently existing partition, click "Finish" after checking all partitions to go back to main interface. 

On this interface, partitions have been recovered. Next, we need to assign drive letter for partition by employing "Change Drive Letter".

MiniTool recently released partition wizard 8.1.1. This new edition was reported to have better performance with most of the bugs fixed.