Unallocated drives after windows update

fjjbnjn

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Just wanted to update this thread in case anyone ever finds it having the same issue. I mentioned in the comments that a program called MiniTool Partition Wizard was able to scan the unallocated drive and view the files, but it wouldn't let me recover them without paying for the pro version of the program. Turns out they didn't always charge for the recovery feature. I uninstalled and installed an older version of that software (v9.1 to be exact) that had that feature for free, and I was able to recover all of my data.

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I just updated windows the other night and woke up and and booted on the computer to see both my HDDs were not showing in file explorer and show as unallocated in disk managament. I don't want to format the drives as I have data on them. How can I recover this data and get the drives back to normal again?
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johnb35

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First of all, I would attach them to another computer to see if its the same. Something may have happened during the update that causes it to not show correctly. Or you could try uninstalling whatever updates was installed.
 

fjjbnjn

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First of all, I would attach them to another computer to see if its the same. Something may have happened during the update that causes it to not show correctly. Or you could try uninstalling whatever updates was installed.
How do I go about uninstalling a windows update? I didn't set a recovery point unfortunately, is there still a way to do it?

And I'll try test them out on my girlfriends pc later.
 

johnb35

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I'm assuming you have windows 10. So go into settings, then update and security then view update history. Click on uninstall updates up top.
 

johnb35

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Try the drives in another system then. If it still shows unallocated, you are pretty much SOL.
 

fjjbnjn

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Yeah I did, still unallocated. But I've googled around for solutions and from what I've seen partition recovery tools like MiniTool can recover the data. I tried a couple and it takes a while to scane but it does find the data that was on the drive, however these kinds of programs don't let you recover it unless you pay a big price to buy the software. Is there anyway I could do the same thing they are doing for free?
 

johnb35

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You can try Recuva, but not sure if it will find everything you need.


Unfortunately, with this type of program most will be limited on what it can do. Thats why the idea of making you buy it in order to actually recover the files.
 
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