I haven’t needed to use any data recovery program to fix partition table damage on a removable drive caused by unplugging the drive at the wrong time, so I have no experience with using them. In that – other data recovery programs you could try – response 2 here: Troubleshooting USB device problems including for flash drives, external drives, memory cards. There are un-delete or un-format programs that can reverse that, but they’re meant to be used when there was nothing wrong with the partition table’s data – you probably would NOT be able to recover as much or maybe NO data because of the partition table damage. The one thing you should NOT do if you want to recover your data is to delete the partition (s) on the external hard drive and make (a) new one(s). A program meant specfically only for un-deleting files will NOT work because of the partition table damage. Try various data recovery programs that can fix partition table damage. Once that damage has been fixed, you will probably be able to access all of or most of the data on the external drive that you could access previously. Recuva is just one of the data recovery programs you can try to fix the partition table damage. In that case, Windows often “thinks” the drive is not formatted and in Dik Mangement the space on the drive is seen as RAW – unallocated. It’s probable that the person you lent it to unplugged it while Windows was running, without clicking on the Safely Remove Hardware icon and choosing to STOP accessing the drive, and because of that, the the partition table data was damaged on it. You haven’t said whether it had a different volume label previously. “A partition being labelled Local Disk doesn’t indicate a problem, unless it had a different label previously because a volume label had been assigned to it and you haven’t deleted that.
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