Hard Drive Wrongly Formatted

[PandaBOT-]

Hi I was helping my cousin back up her laptop and i miss read the notification since it was in korean so i accidently formatted my 1tb hhd into a 32gb recovery disk. I managed to find the missing patrician and restore her data but my hhd is still lacking a lot of space. Is there any way i can restore this some how?

 

[terry4536]

You can repartition it or reformat it.

http://pcsupport.about.com/od/windows7/ht/partition-hard-drive-windows-7.htm

 

[PandaBOT-]

Thank you i'll give it a try. The reformatting i have tried that but that didnt work so i'll have to read it and try to repartition it

 

[BBrent]

The way I usually do it is:

1) Launch Command Prompt
2)Type "diskpart"
3)Type "list disk"
4)Select the correct disk by typing "select disk #" (# being the number of the disk you want to select)
5)Type "list partition" to show current partitions.
6)Type "select partition #" (# being the partition you wish to select).
7)Type "delete partition"
8)Do this for all partitions on the HDD you're trying to reformat.
9)Type "create partition primary"
10)Go to my computer and format the drive for use.
11)Enjoy

Make sure you select the other disk and not your OS disk.