External hard drive lost data after creating factory recovery

Lawman093

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May 2, 2014
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I have recently created a factory/system recovery on my Samsung m3 external hard drive with 1.5tb, however after I created the factory recovery on my hard drive total memory went from 1.5tb to 50gb with the new files.

Is there a way to get the memory space back? I don't really care about the deleted data.

I have used the dell software that came with my laptop to create the recovery
could also be found on:

http://www.dell.com/support/contents/us/en/19/article/Product-Support/Self-support-Knowledgebase/software-and-downloads/dell-backup-solutions/Dell-Backup-and-Recovery