Windows 10: Accidentally turned a 1Tb external HDD into a recovery drive - Can I get it back?

Discus and support Accidentally turned a 1Tb external HDD into a recovery drive - Can I get it back? in Windows 10 Ask Insider to solve the problem; Hi guys! Some time ago my main laptop died so I had to create a recovery pen to fix it. Problem was, I was out of pendrives with enough capacity so I... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Ask Insider' started by /u/Jcrm87, Mar 23, 2020.

  1. /U/JCRM87
    /u/Jcrm87 Win User

    Accidentally turned a 1Tb external HDD into a recovery drive - Can I get it back?


    Hi guys!

    Some time ago my main laptop died so I had to create a recovery pen to fix it. Problem was, I was out of pendrives with enough capacity so I used an external HDD.

    Now things are fixed, but of course when I plug in my HDD it only shows the recovery image, which weights around 4GB, and says there's 27GBs free while in fact the HDD's total size is 1TB.

    Is there any way I can recover it back to it's original purpose? I assume I can just format it, but wanted to ask first in case there's any way I could also avoid losing the information I had on it.

    Thank you!

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    /u/Jcrm87, Mar 23, 2020
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  2. DEERPARK243
    deerpark243 Win User

    Will Windows 10 with a 1TB HDD work alright with a External SATA HDD cloned drive?

    Hi, I'm about to get an External HDD"flat docking station"with an USB 3.0 to clone from my internal HDD. Will it make a difference which drive I use with Windows 10? Also, I'll be cloning this drive from a 1TB drive that only has 130GB on it that's 50%
    fragmented (after I use the defagger) The HDD drive I'll be cloning to is also 1TB, will the fragmented files from the internal HDD show up on the cloned drive? I hope that's not a "dull" question.
     
    deerpark243, Mar 23, 2020
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  3. TENZINNAMSAY
    TenzinNamsay Win User
    1tb Fat32 external hdd

    Hello all.

    My windows can't open my 1tb fat32 external hdd. It formats it to some other thing. I need it to be fat32 so I could connect it to my ps3. Is there an alternate option to windows file ?
     
    TenzinNamsay, Mar 23, 2020
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  4. CHRISTINEDONOVAN
    ChristineDonovan Win User

    Accidentally turned a 1Tb external HDD into a recovery drive - Can I get it back?

    accidentally changed external drive to esd-usb

    Accidentally converted my 1TB external hard drive to a ESD-USB

    I built a new custom PC and I needed to download Windows 10 for it so I used my Toshiba 1TB external hard drive to install the ISO of Windows 10 Home onto it and then install it onto my PC. It all worked and I now have Windows 10 Home on my new PC but my
    1TB external hard drive is now a 31.9GB maximum storage external hard drive. How can I revert my hard drive back to having 1TB maximum storage

    Is there any way to find all the files I had on it?
     
    ChristineDonovan, Mar 23, 2020
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