Hi Guys, I recently connected my 300 GB IDE hard drive to my laptop to access some files through a USB-to-IDE converter and when the hard drive (which was fully functional with approximately 30% data capacity) did not appear under hard drives in MY COMPUTER I went to disk management and I found it as an dynamic disk. The only option I had was convert to basic disk. I did that and now it seems that it has created a 300GB unallocated space partition. Does this mean I have lost all data and it is unrecoverable?

Any assistance would be appreciated!

Roberttanti

Unallocated disk space basically means that it does not have a drive letter as it is not formatted

To get access to that 300gb, you would have to allocate that space and then five it a drive letter and then format it

Doing this will not give you a way to access old info

If you can, go back to the format it was previously and hook it up internally as it was before and copy your material to a cd or some other hard drive or flash drive and then move it to your laptop

Don't know what will happen, but unallocated is that, not allocated to a drive letter and not formatted, just 300 gb sitting there

Hey mate, thanks for the advice, I understand that I can format it and get an extra partition but I was wondering there's anything I can do to recover the data from the older partition. Thanks

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