Recovering partition after windows reinstall

MilesOrton

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Originally there were two disks:
C: SSD 120gb
D: 2GB
F: >1GB
D and F were part of the same 3TB HDD.
I now reinstalled windows on a new SSD and disk F disappeared. The space of F disk is NOT unallocated because if you try to create a new disk it will not allow and it does make sense because I did not touch D or F disks during reinstall of OS.
I installed easyus and it does actually show all the files from "lost" partition (it's paid soft, so only worst case scenario I would pay for that)
So it seems the lost F partition is somewhere, quite healthy, but how do I recover it?

And just to reiterate, D and F were part of the same HDD and split, D - is completely okay, but F is gone. It probably has to do something with HDD being 3TB and needing extra work to unlock or drivers, but that's so far no luck with that yet.
 

MilesOrton

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Sorry I missclicked on the best answer.

I will post the screenshot later on.

How do you assign a letter? Because it doesnt look like I could do it from disk management, so do I go to windows installation menu or where? That's a good suggestion, I cant remember exactly how I sorted 3TB hdd more than two years ago now



 
Is your 3TB disk in MBR or GPT partition format?
(rightclick where Disk 0 is written and choose Properties/Volumes and look for Partition Style info)
If it is MBR format, then you will not be able to use that space after 2TB boundary.

If it is GPT format, then you will need to use recovery software to recover your deleted partition.
You can use Minitool Partition Wizard free eddition.
There is Partition Recovery wizard inside of it.
https://www.partitionwizard.com/download.html

Also - I suggest you convert that 120GB disk from Dynamic to Basic.
 

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It is MBR. So what that means I cant use more than 2TB? I also cannot recover the remainder as a partition?
 
That's right. To use full capacity of 3TB drive, you need to convert it to GPT partition style.
Officially - that can be done only if disk contains no partitions.

But you can try Minitool Partition Wizard - I saw there option to convert from MBR to GPT.
Maybe it is able to convert without deleting partitions.
I'd suggest backuping data from D: partition before doing it.
 

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