Used External hard drive for boot drive for win10 install....Can I recover data?

bonem1dr

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Feb 18, 2013
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I just built a new computer and I used my external hard drive instead of going out and buying a flash drive to install windows 10 on the new rig. It has partitioned the 1 terabit hard drive into a 32 gig hard drive and the other portion of the drive is nowhere to be found. I am sure I could use gparted or something to reformat the drive but what I am wondering is if there is anyway to restore it to a few days ago to recover my files. Won't be losing anything to important but am just wondering. I tried one program but it dosn't want to find anything.