My 1TB hard drive now says recovery drive 32GB. It was accidentally reformatted and all previous data does not show up. Is it

Don't write anymore data to that drive. Boot up a different SSD/hard drive and connect this 32 GB recovery drive as a secondary drive (not the drive that was booted up). Then download this program and run it (https://www.piriform.com/recuva). DO NOT download the program or any other program to the recently formatted drive.
 
This is an easier place to download the program from: http://filehippo.com/download_recuva/

When you run it, select "In a specific location" and browser to the root of the damaged hard drive. I'm guessing it'll be D:\ but you would know better.
 
Hi there kanikatie,

I would also say that you should be careful not to overwrite the data on the drive.
Another thing you can consider is using a partition recovery tool and see whether you could recover your original partitions.

Cheers,
D_Know_WD
 

kanikatie

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