Windows 10: Recovered lost partition from deleted dynamic drive, but capacity will not expand to fill...

Hi, the problem I have is I have a 2TB hard drive reading only half that, while saying the partition is taking up 100% of the drive.


For some background, I had this 2TB drive split into two 1TB partitions, one as the D: drive and one as the E: drive. I went to re-allocate some space from drive E: to drive D:, about a 1.25TB-750GB split, but during this process I converted it back to a basic disc, wiping the partitions and making the whole drive unallocated. I was able to recover the D: drive partition through recovery software, and since then have been using the drive as just a 1TB drive. But as you can see, I am closely reaching capacity and depend on this drive for archival purposes, so I cant just delete the files off to free up space. I was trying to overwrite what was formerly the E: drive but is now unallocated space, but the computer believes that the drive is both only 1862 GB and 1074 GB, so it will not let me.


The only option I can think to remedy this involves transferring the files to an empty 1tb hard drive, reformat the 2TB hard drive, and copy the files back over. At the moment I do not have a 1TB hard drive to do that, so that's why I'm trying any last-ditch effort to expand the drive without needing to wipe and reformat it.


Thanks for any help and suggestions.

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How to recover files off a HDD from a deleted partition? help!!!

Thanks for your reply. I used my m8s program and it worked like a dream, recovered all the files and also deleted ones from yrs back, was amazed how well it did. Next step is i will use that Partition Table Doctor to recover the deleted partition. Thanks for the link *Toast :toast:

 

How to delete the partition after creating a recovery drive on Windows 10?

Hi,

Thank you for posting in Microsoft Community and being a part of Windows 10.

I understand your concern about deleting the recovery partition after creating a recovery drive. We will help you with this issue.

I suggest you to try the below troubleshooting steps to delete the recovery partition from Command Prompt and check if it helps.

I suggest you to log-in as an administrator with Microsoft account, try the below and check if it helps.

• Press Windows + X keys from the keyboard, click on
  Command Prompt (Admin)
• Type: diskpart
• At the DISKPART prompt, type: list disk (Make note of the disk number of the disk from which you want to delete the partition.)
• At the DISKPART prompt, type: select diskn (Select the disk
  n from which you want to delete the partition.)
• At the DISKPART prompt, type: list partition (Make note of the number of the partition that you want to delete.)
• At the DISKPART prompt, type: select partition (Select the partition
  n that you want to delete.)
• At the DISKPART prompt, type: delete partition

Caution

• 
  Deleting a partition on a dynamic disk can delete all dynamic volumes on the disk, thus leaving the disk in a corrupt state. To delete a dynamic volume, use the
  delete volume command instead. For instructions on how to delete a dynamic volume, see Related Topics.
  
• 
  When you delete a partition, all data on that deleted partition or logical drive is lost.
  
• 
  You cannot recover deleted partitions or logical drives.
  

Hope it helps. Reply to the post with an updated status of this issue, we will be happy to assist you further.

 

How do you recover a deleted partition on a hard drive?

I was putting together my mothers new PC (mainly my old components) and decided that her hardrives were a mess and that I was going to merge the partitions.

On one the drives, I deleted and formatted partition B, and tried to merge it with partition A, simply by extending partition A to encompass the remaining capacity on the physical drive. Much to my horror however, the end result was that the whole of the physical drive was rendered into 500GB of 'Unallocated Space'.

There was lots of very important files on that hard-drive and losing them would be totally out of the question.

Does anyone know how to go about recovering a deleted partition?