Storage HHD showing as unallocated after fresh install.

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Maldoron

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Hello, hope somebody can help please.
I have 2 hdd on a windows 7 setup. 1 drive for os and other drive for storing date. I.e videos and pictures ect. The storage drive was formatted to ntfs. I wanted a fresh install of windows 7 so I created an image and also manually moved all data I wanted to keep onto my storage drive. Booted into windows setup and deleted 100mb partition and drive 0. Drive 1 was the storage drive. Upon refresh of screen I noticed 100mb partition was gone but both drives showed as unallocated. I was abit worried at this point but I proceeded and installed windows on drive 0. Windows is up and running but the storage drive (drive 1) is showing up in disk management as unallocated. This is where I am at. I don't dare mess about as it contains all my photos videos of my newborn daughter also photos going back years and my wife is distraught and me for that matter. Any help would be appreciated.
 
try checking out digital rescue premium or ****** data recovery wizard pro. you may have to pay for it, but it is worth it. i used both and they work great. lost 1.67TB of movies, 800 gigs of software/games...and i got 98% of it all back, twice....just be sure to not reformat the drive that had the data on it. you will have better luck getting the data back the least amount of times the drive is formated good luck
 
First off DO NOT FORMAT OR REPARTITION THE DRIVE. This I cannot stress enough, do not touch those at all, you will lose all data and it will make it 10 times harder to get back. If anyone on here tells you to do either, completely disregard what they say on that matter.

First try power data recovery, which is a free recovery utility.

http://www.powerdatarecovery.com/power-data-recovery-free-edition.html

You can get deleted/lost partitions back using it. Try it first and please, remember the initial sentence - do not format or repartition the drive
 
1. Do you use the SAFE REMOVE HARDWARE option before unplugging the drive?

2. Never reinstall OS if your other important drive full of data is connected to PC.Always disconnect it first just in case.

3. Did you put any password on HDD such as through BIOS or some software?
 
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