5.2. Recovering Data from Lost Drive/Unallocated Partition

Stellar Data Recovery allows you to locate and recover data from the Lost Drive/Unallocated Partition from a connected hard drive. Partition becomes unallocated/RAW when a drive letter is not assigned, a partition is accidentally deleted, or a file system is damaged or corrupted. The unallocated partition is not listed under the drives on the PC therefore you cannot access any file from this partition.

With using Stellar Data Recovery you can recover your lost data from unallocated space and access your files and folders easily. This function works on Raw Recovery to recover the lost data from unallocated partition.

Note: Any partition with a file system other than NTFS, FAT, or exFAT will appear as a lost drive or unallocated partition because this edition only supports NTFS, FAT and exFAT file systems.

Steps to recover data from Lost Drive:

1. Run Stellar Data Recovery.

2. From Select What to Recover screen, select the type of data i.e. Everything, Documents, Folders & Emails or Multimedia Files, you want to recover.

3. Click Next.

4. On Recover From screen, select Lost Drive from the Connected Drives section.

Note: When there are multiple unallocated spaces on a hard disk, it will appear under Connected Drives as Lost Drive 1, Lost Drive 2 and so on. You can select only one Lost Drive at a time for recovery.

5. Click Scan. A screen showing the scanning process is displayed. 

Note: You can click Stop at any point to stop the scanning process.

6. Once the scanning process is completed, details of the files and folder found are displayed in a dialog box as shown below:

7. For information on how to preview and recover the scanned data, see Previewing Scan Results and Saving the Recovered Files.