Unallocated partition issue
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Hello everyone, I have an external hard drive with a capacity of one terabyte. When I check in Disk Management, I only see 80.42 GB allocated and 851.09 GB unallocated. Unfortunately, I can't seem to recover everything. Is there a solution, please?
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Welcome to the Forum, davidoux21 :)
Indeed, the steps to take would depend on what you want to do: recover data that this HDD contains or not.
If you do not want to recover any data and the only thing to test would be to put the HDD back into use, we can simply delete the existing partition and then create a new simple volume. I suggest using DISKPART commands:
=> open the command prompt (in Windows)
=> type diskpart > Enter > type list disk > Enter > type: select disk # (where # should be replaced by the number of the HDD (the drive) to be erased) > Enter > clean > Enter. Make sure you select the correct hard drive number :)
After this operation, all the space on the HDD will appear in Disk Management as unallocated. Right-click on it to Initialize and then right-click on this unallocated space to create a new simple volume.
However, if you want to recover data that this HDD contains, consider using a Linux Live CD or alternative data recovery software.
By the way, @davidoux21, do you remember the circumstances that led to this situation?
Looking forward to your reply :)
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