Accidentally partitioned my external for windows bootable
Posted: 21 Dec 2018, 20:31
Currently running
HDD1: 500 gb (main)
HDD2: 500 gb (not sure what this is for)
SSD: 500 gb (brand new, wanted to make this bootable)
External HDD: 1 TB
So I did something really dumb and instead of using a USB key, I accidentally picked my external HDD into the bootable windows the Windows USB/DVD Download Tool.
I can see the partitions in disk management, where 32gb of it is now ESD-USB (windows bootable) and 899 gb is unallocated.
How do I get back the 899 gb?
I've tried using testdisk (ran for 2 days, and unfortunately, my C drive ran out of space). I have no idea where testdisk "placed" the recovered files, or if it even recovered it. It must have, as I had about 400 gb free in my C: drive and now it has 5gb free.
Help?
Also, going forward, I'd like to pretty much just do a clean install of windows on my SSD and then just utilize my HDD1 and HDD2 to keep programs on, so I should probably do a full wipe of both HDD.
Disk mgmt pic:
https://imgur.com/a/qGuDNBK
HDD1: 500 gb (main)
HDD2: 500 gb (not sure what this is for)
SSD: 500 gb (brand new, wanted to make this bootable)
External HDD: 1 TB
So I did something really dumb and instead of using a USB key, I accidentally picked my external HDD into the bootable windows the Windows USB/DVD Download Tool.
I can see the partitions in disk management, where 32gb of it is now ESD-USB (windows bootable) and 899 gb is unallocated.
How do I get back the 899 gb?
I've tried using testdisk (ran for 2 days, and unfortunately, my C drive ran out of space). I have no idea where testdisk "placed" the recovered files, or if it even recovered it. It must have, as I had about 400 gb free in my C: drive and now it has 5gb free.
Help?
Also, going forward, I'd like to pretty much just do a clean install of windows on my SSD and then just utilize my HDD1 and HDD2 to keep programs on, so I should probably do a full wipe of both HDD.
Disk mgmt pic:
https://imgur.com/a/qGuDNBK