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Restoring the originial capacity of a drive

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9 minutes ago, Windows2000 said:

his might sound really stupid but the device isn't found in Disk Management but shows up in diskpart.exe under the command list disk. 

**The External HDD is Disk 2**

Scroll down in diskmgmt, then select new volume.

So I was setting up my external hard drive (substituting it for a flash drive) so I can set up a bootable image on it. However, it has reformatted the size from 1TB to 32GB. I tried reformatting it via right click --> format but it does not give me an option for the original size. 

How do I revert it back to it's original capacity?

 

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if you open your start menu and type "disk" you have pretty high chances of the partition editor built into windows to pop up (i cant remember the actual name of it in english, and *still* on a dutch windows version :D)

 

then you find the drive you want to edit, remove the partitions on it, add a new one, and that one should be 1TB again.

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6 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

open run diskmgmt.msc

 

11 minutes ago, manikyath said:

if you open your start menu and type "disk" you have pretty high chances of the partition editor built into windows to pop up (i cant remember the actual name of it in english, and *still* on a dutch windows version :D)

 

then you find the drive you want to edit, remove the partitions on it, add a new one, and that one should be 1TB again.

Got it. Now I deleted the partition but how do add one? o.O 

This might sound really stupid but the device isn't found in Disk Management but shows up in diskpart.exe under the command list disk. 

**The External HDD is Disk 2**

 

 

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9 minutes ago, Windows2000 said:

his might sound really stupid but the device isn't found in Disk Management but shows up in diskpart.exe under the command list disk. 

**The External HDD is Disk 2**

Scroll down in diskmgmt, then select new volume.

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1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Scroll down in diskmgmt, then select new volume.

DERP. Thank you so much!

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