Windows 10: my hdd is not showing up and it says that it´s uninitialized and unallocated and i want to...

i have a old hard drive and it has some files i want to access. once i plug it in i hear the sound that it´s connected but i don´t see it anywhere not even the pop up that it´s connected and when i open the disk manager is says that it´s uninitialized and unallocated. how can i safetly access my files without losing them .

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partition on HDD is showing unallocated

Hi Kyle_062,

My name is Lee an Independent Advisor.

To use the unallocated partition as a separte partition, all you need to do is to assign a drive letter in disk management (check this step:

https://www.dummies.com/computers/pcs/how-to-us...).

If you want to merge it to the existing partition to have just a single Drive letter, here is a step by step procedure with screenshot on how to do it:

https://www.windowscentral.com/how-create-one-l....

There is a down side of merging the two hard drive into one dynamic volume because we all know SSD last longer than HDD, if you only have 1 dynamic volume and in the event that the HDD failed, you won't be able to boot even if the SSD has no problem. Why not
keep two separtate drive volume, keep the OS in the SSD (for fault tolerance) and just use the regular Hard Drive as a separtate drive volume?

If my suggestion above did not help you, please reply back to let me know and I will assure you I will respond back as quickly as I can. Thank you and have a nice day!

Sincerely,

LEE | INDEPENDENT ADVISOR ᛫ WINDOWS 10

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Windows 10 OS cloning Failed due to Bad Sectors on HDD Failure. Now I can't boot on both the original and new HDD

Thanks Munkhbayar B.,

I have tried steps 1 and 2 for the Old HDD, but nothing has changed.

For step 1, it says, "The type of the file system is RAW. CHKDSK is not available for RAW drives".

 

Seagate 3TB shows 128GB unallocated memory!

So i've just bought a Seagate 3TB internal hdd (having an 4TB Boot drive already).
But in the Disk management it shows 128GB unallocated memory and its greyed out!
What can i do now?
Any help will b appreciated!