hard drive reformatted with windows usb????

[brandxbeer]

I decided I needed to refresh my pc and went onto win 10 store to make a usb boot. Unknowingly it completely erased my entire external hard drive and made the entire hdd a 32 gb boot drive. I tried to get all of my data back with no avail. ( I figure its gone for good). Now my 1 tb hard drive wont reformat to 1 tb , it stays on 32 gb . please help

 

[Martell1977]

You could try to use a tool like:
AOMEI Partitian Assistant Standard Edition

to change how the drive it partitioned. I used it on a drive that for some unknown reason I couldn't format.

 

[SchizTech]

If you're not focusing on recovering the lost data and just want to restore the drive to 1TB, you'll need to delete the partition through disk management. You can right-click the start button and select disk management. Then on the 1TB external, right-click and delete the partitions until it's one big 1TB unallocated space, than right-click and create a new simple volume. Finish going through the wizard and the drive will show up in Explorer with the full capacity.

 

[USAFRet]

Do you need the old data off it?

If not, Disk Management.
Delete all existing partitions
Reformat NTFS
Use the whole space