Formated Drive from ntfs to fat32, now have 502gb of unallocated data

[frozencronic]

I bought a 1tb, seagate harddrive. when i formatted to change the partition from NTFS to FAT32 using swissknife V3, but now it comes up as just 429gb, with 502gb of allocated data, Is there anyway i can get back that 502gb?

 

[mike1996]

Open the Start menu, right click 'Computer' and then left click 'Manage', give permission if required.

In the window there should be a page in the middle with 'Storage' among two other options, double click storage and then 'Disk Management.

Wait a few seconds for all your drives and partitions to load. Right click the partition you wish to extend and add the unallocated space there

 

[D_Know_WD]

Hi there frozencronic,

You don't have any data stored on the drive right? In case you have some data stored on this partition, it may be a good idea to back it up before proceeding. If the unallocated data is on the right of the allocated part, you can just simply extend the partition as mike1996 already suggested. If the unallocated space is divided in some way or is on the left of the allocated partition, you will need some kind a third party partition manager tool.
If this doesn't work, you can just reformat the drive.

Cheers,
D_Know_WD

 

[MrFixitHeavy]

OP, Your issue is essentially that you've tried to overshoot the limitations of the Fat32 format and you've done so by quite a bit but believe me when I say, you should just stick to ntfs for that partition.

More or less, above 127 gb Fat32 partitions start behaving in odd ways and the behaviour can vary sometimes catastrophically between OSes.

Solution: Go back to NTFS, and hope you didn't have any data in the 502gb that became unallocated

Might I ask why you'd want to have a 1tb drive using something as inherently unstable as a Fat32 system?

 

[USAFRet]

I bought a 1tb, seagate harddrive. when i formatted to change the partition from NTFS to FAT32

Why did you do this?