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Accicentally turned my Seagate 4tb hdd drive into a recovery.Please help me get my space back

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  • Data Recovery
  • External Hard Drive
  • Storage
  • Hard Drives
  • Seagate
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May 13, 2014 10:39:57 AM

I recently accidentall used my 4tb external hdd as a recovery drive for my hp laptop runnin on windows 8.1 and now it only all

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a c 943 G Storage
May 13, 2014 5:19:46 PM

I'm not sure what you mean by help you get your space back? Is it still a 4tb drive or not?
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a b G Storage
May 13, 2014 8:05:19 PM

When you make it into a recovery drive, it formats it to fat32 which can't address the full 4TB. If you just want to remove the recovery partition and have a full 4tb, do this:
search "cmd" and launch it is administrator
in cmd, enter the following in this exact order:
diskpart
lis dis
sel dis x (x is going to be the number of the 4tb drive that showed up in the previous command)
clean
convert gpt
create partition primary
format quick fs=ntfs label="Storage"

Now, if you want to keep the recovery partition, I'd probably need a little more info. But if my guess is correct in that the remaining space is just not assigned, do the following in the admin cmd prompt:
diskpart
lis dis
sel dis x (again, where x is the number of the 4tb disk that showed up previously)
create partition primary
format quick fs=ntfs label="Storage"
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