My 1tb HDD olny shows one 70 GB partition

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My storage HDD only shows one small partition on windows 10, I used to used to have windows 10 on this HDD but it stopped working, so I made a 70 GB partition to install windows because I didn't want to format it, now it only shows 70 GB of unallocated space
 
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You are confusing the two drives and what you did with them. You said you have a 74 gb drive that was bad, that is disk 0. The other drive is disk 1 and is your 1TB drive. There is no issues with the drives, the issue is...
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As always with issues like this...we need a screencap of your Disk Management window, and a clear description of exactly what you did, and what parts you have.

Just so that we're all on the same page.
 
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Exactly, plus you said "70GB of unallocated space" meaning most of it should currently be usable.

You can RECOVER that space in Disk Management anyway. Just delete the unallocated partition then resize the other one (or something like that, I forget the details).

Anyway, whatever space is NOT allocated can be recovered in Disk Management.
 
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so this used to be my only hdd, so i had windows 10 installed on it, suddently it stopped booting into windows, i got an error screen instead saying that winload.exe was corrupted, so what i did was create a 70 gb partition and install windows on it, but when that windows booted, my other 2 partitions were gone (my main partition with win 10 and a storage one) and only the 70 gb one shows up, now i connected this hdd to another pc and it's the same thing
 
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hmmm...
That does not look right.

We may have to go nuclear on that drive.

So, let's test.
What happens if you take that 1TB (Disk 0) out.
Does the system boot up properly?

Is there anything on that drive that you actually need and cannot move elsewhere?
 
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just removed the hdd and pc boots up fine, there is (or was) a lot of personal stuff in it, so if possible i'd prefer not losing it, unless i already lost it
 
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OK...I'm completely lost here.

Disk 0 - 74.54GB, containing the H drive/partition which is 74.04GB
Disk 1 - 931.51GB (a 1TB drive), containing 2 lettered partitions....the D of 788.82GB and the C partition of 61.59GB, and an E partition of 80.44GB (Copy of D)

Is this correct, as your screencap shows?

And if you remove the Disk 0, the system boots up normally
Yet you state that there is "a fresh windows 10 install on the 70GB partition" on this Disk 0.

You've lost me here.
 
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okay so the disk 1 is the one i've been using since disk 0 broke, when i plug in disk 0 to my pc it only shows one partition (the 70 gb that i just mentioned) when there should be 2 more, as of now, disk 0 is a 70 gb hdd, it should be a 1tb one and i should have all my stuff, but it's not working properly and i don't know why, sorry if my writing is confusing and i really appreciate your concern

in case you're wondering, if i plug in disk 0 only, i can boot into that fresh windows, but there's nothing there
 
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I suggest one-pass sector-by-sector cloning of this hard-drive, and the cloned HD be put away for safe-keeping, for now.
If your Data partition is now un-allocated, that means something strong such as a USB-residing and/or DVD-residing portable MiniTool Partition Magic version 9, or any such utility of your choosing, is going to be needed to, hopefully, if not over-written, bring back that Data partition.
IF you do get that Data partition back and you do a look-see to determine your data is aok, usable, savable, and not a bunch of names with garbage content:
THEN immediately, using a USB or DVD backup / restore / cloning program of your choice, make a verified-on-the-fly full image of that Data partition, like "yesterday if not today".
After, the data partition, assuming it was truly recovered, has been backed up onto reliable external media, then you can begin the process of rebuilding the problem internal hard-drive.
 
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You are confusing the two drives and what you did with them. You said you have a 74 gb drive that was bad, that is disk 0. The other drive is disk 1 and is your 1TB drive. There is no issues with the drives, the issue is that you are getting mixed up about what you are looking at or doing with the system. It's like saying "before I had the Sun out and it was hot and bright but now the Sun is not hot and it's dark". The issue is not that the Sun changed, the Moon is being mistaken for the Sun.

I suggest you bring the system to a local tech before you start messing with the system and fully delete your files by accident. From the way the thing is setup, you need someone to try to get your data out now and start over fully with killing everything on the drive and doing a clean Windows setup. The partition setup on the 1TB drive is all over the place with partitions in all sorts of odd locations.
 
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