{"id":528,"date":"2014-03-05T01:49:03","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T01:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/?p=528"},"modified":"2021-05-13T03:11:15","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T03:11:15","slug":"recover-files-from-unallocated-free-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/recover-files-from-unallocated-free-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Recover Files From Unallocated\/ Free Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong>What\u2019s unallocated space?<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>It happens quite often that there is a part of hard drive that appears to be \u201cUnallocated\u201d or \u201cFree\u201d, which might be rarely known by many users. Unallocated space is in contrast to \u201callocated space\u201d which is a portion of hard drive and stores data that is viewable to users. The unallocated or free drive space is invisible in Windows Explorer, but that space might be a normal partition containing files and folders before. Here is a screenshot of Disk Management and there is 15GB unallocated space between partition C and E.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-533 size-full\" title=\"Recover Files From Unallocated Space\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Recover-Files-From-Unallocated-Space.png\" alt=\"Recover Files From Unallocated Space\" width=\"999\" height=\"703\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Recover-Files-From-Unallocated-Space.png 999w, https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Recover-Files-From-Unallocated-Space-300x211.png 300w, https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Recover-Files-From-Unallocated-Space-426x300.png 426w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 999px) 100vw, 999px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Recover files from unallocated space<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you do not belong to those who backup files regularly and timely\u00a0to avoid data loss, you need to learn data recovery skills to perform file recovery and partition recovery on your own. Eassos Recovery can be the ideal helper to deal with all kinds of data loss scenarios.<\/p>\n<p>Eassos Recovery is able to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/\">recover files from unallocated space<\/a> and free space, besides, it can recover deleted files, formatted files, recover lost or deleted partitions, recover files from inaccessible partitions (e.g. RAW partition), etc. Plus, Eassos Recovery supports the most storage devices, including IDE, SCSI, SATA, USB hard drive, RAID, USB flash disk, SD card, TF card, etc.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2956 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/CF-card-recovery-01.png\" alt=\"Recover Files From Unallocated\/ Free Space\" width=\"900\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/CF-card-recovery-01.png 900w, https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/CF-card-recovery-01-300x233.png 300w, https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/CF-card-recovery-01-768x597.png 768w, https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/CF-card-recovery-01-386x300.png 386w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You can follow steps here to recover files from unallocated or free drive space.<\/p>\n<p>Get Eassos Recovery started and select the function \u201c<em>Recover Files From Disk<\/em>\u201d on its main interface.<\/p>\n<p>Then you\u2019ll see the interface below. Select the hard drive and then click the drop-down list to select the \u201cFree\u201d disk space. (Eassos Recover marks unallocated or free drive space as Free). Click \u201cNext\u201d button to start searching for lost files from unallocated or free space.<\/p>\n<p>After the scanning process is completed, you can select files you want to recover and copy them to a safe place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What\u2019s unallocated space? It happens quite often that there is a part of hard drive that appears to be \u201cUnallocated\u201d or \u201cFree\u201d, which might be rarely known by many users. Unallocated space is in contrast to \u201callocated space\u201d which is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/recover-files-from-unallocated-free-space\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,5,118,117],"class_list":["post-528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-data-recovery","tag-eassos-recovery","tag-file-recovery","tag-partition-recovery","tag-recover-files-from-unallocated-space","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4671,"href":"https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions\/4671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}