{"id":61458,"date":"2020-07-21T21:14:58","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T21:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stellarinfo.com\/blog\/?p=61458"},"modified":"2025-04-17T03:38:39","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T03:38:39","slug":"fix-unallocated-ssd-on-windows-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stellarinfo.com\/blog\/fix-unallocated-ssd-on-windows-10\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Fix Unallocated SSD and Recover Data?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I swapped out my hard drive to an SSD and cloned the drive. The initial drive was 500 GB and the new SSD has 1Tb capacity. Everything went well, however when I tried to access my SSD drive, I couldn’t open it. To check if everything is fine, I opened Disk Management. The drive was appearing as unallocated. Please tell me how I can fix this. Any help would be appreciated!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>

Solid State Drives (SSDs) are significantly faster and improve the system’s performance. Also, these drives offer more reliability as compared to conventional HDDs. However, like any other drive, SSDs may become unallocated due to corrupt file system. There could be several reasons behind file system corruption such as virus attack or bad sectors in the drive. The SSD with the corrupt file system doesn’t appear in File Explorer. Though you can verify the status of the drive in the Disk Management. If you find the drive showing as ‘Unallocated’ (See Image 1) you may fix it with the best methods given in this blog.<\/p>

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Image 1: Unallocated SSD<\/span><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>

The unallocated SSD becomes inaccessible, which means you may not access your data stored on the drive. No need to worry! You may recover the data with the help of an efficient windows data recovery software<\/a>.<\/p>

Read on to know the best troubleshooting techniques to fix unallocated SSD to make it accessible again and use it as new.<\/p>

Best Methods to Fix Unallocated SSD<\/strong><\/h2>

Method 1: Assign a Drive Letter<\/strong><\/p>

You can try fixing the unallocated SSD by assigning the drive letter and later on formatting it and providing a file system to it.<\/p>

a. Go to Windows Search Box and open Computer Management<\/strong>. (See Image 2<\/strong>)<\/p>

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Image 2: Open Computer Management<\/span><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>

b. Go to System tool<\/strong> and then click Device Manager<\/strong> (See Image 3<\/strong>)<\/p>

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Image 3: Under System tools, open Device Manager<\/span><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>

c. Go to Storage and double-click on Disk Management<\/strong> and you will see the unallocated<\/strong> drive. (See Image 4<\/strong>)<\/p>

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Image 4: Check Unallocated SSD in Disk Management<\/span><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>

d. Find the drive with unallocated space, right-click on it and select New Simple Volume. (See Image 5<\/strong>)<\/p>

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Image 5: Create New Simple Volume<\/span><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>

e. Click Next<\/strong> on the next prompt and then click Next<\/strong> again to specify volume size. (See Image 6<\/strong>)<\/p>

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Image 6: Specify drive volume size<\/span><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>

f. Then assign the drive letter from the available options and click Next<\/strong>. (See Image 7)<\/strong><\/p>

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Image 7: Assign a letter to the drive<\/span><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>

g. Mark ‘Do not format this volume’<\/strong> and click Next<\/strong>. (See image 8<\/strong>)<\/p>

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Image 8: Do not format the drive<\/span><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>

h. Finish<\/strong> the process. Once it’s done, you will be able to see the drive with a letter. However, the drive will turn RAW. (See Image 9<\/strong>)<\/p>

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Image 9: Drive turned RAW<\/span><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>

As you chose to not format the drive, the drive turns RAW, but the data remains on the drive. So, you may recover data from RAW drive with a data recovery tool and then proceed with the next method.<\/p>

Method 2:  Format the Unallocated SSD<\/strong><\/p>

To get back your access to the solid-state drive (SSD), you may format the drive and provide it a file system with the help of the following steps:<\/p>

a. Go to Disk Management and right-click on the RAW SSD.<\/p>

b. Follow the on-screen instructions and proceed.<\/p>

c. Click ‘Format this volume with the following settings’<\/strong>, choose NTFS<\/strong> as a file system and click Next<\/strong>. (See Image 10<\/strong>)<\/p>

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Image 10: Format drive and choose NTFS as file system<\/span><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>

d. Click Finish<\/strong> to complete the process.<\/p>

Formatting the drive to wipe out the data stored on it, can result in you losing all your important files, documents and other data. If you have already recovered the data from the drive, you can format the drive.<\/p>

However, if you lose data after formatting the drive, the recovery is still possible with <\/em>Stellar Data Recovery<\/em><\/a> software. This DIY data retrieval tool lets you recover lost documents, email files, photos, videos, and more. The software can retrieve all types of hard drive and SSDs, SD\/ Memory cards, USB drives & more. The data can even be retrieved from formatted, corrupted, or encrypted devices. The RAW SSD drive recovery is also possible. Check out the video to get back your data.<\/em><\/p>

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