kiltedscotsman

my computer is saying 4tb now so hopefully that's it I will now start the process of putting my data back on it thank you so much for all your excellent help theres no way I would of managed that by myself my next thing I want to do is when my new hard drive comes for my all in one pc I have to get windows on it ive got a usb stick which has all the files for that if I have any trouble is it ok if I sent you a message I believe the windows you get a month then have to buy an activation code better than buying a whole new all in one pc which my wife uses for her work

ok kenb think ive done it I used a third party software to do your last suggestion convert to gpd disk then came back on to diskmgmt.msc then did the extend volume and it seems to have worked just going to test out just now will let you know

hi kenb as you can see the the convert to gpt disk is greyed out will check in regurlary on hour and half hour thanks again andy

hi kenb this is the message I get up when I try to extend the volume

hi kenb well progressing to a point ,everything went as you said until I try to right click on unallocated partition the new simple volume is greyed out cant do anything with it any ideas thanks again andy

h kenb sorry been a day before getting back to you , success with getting my files retrieved over 800 gig , I got it back with your recommendation for easeus recovery worked a treat but took absolutely hours upon hours next thing is to try get my hard drive back on line as a 4 tb would using a partion programme help me to do this thanks again with help for data amazing result

hi kenb thank you very much for trying to help appreciate it , I have sent a pic of what you told me to look at ,and yes I have loads of photos and documents I would hate to lose , now ive been told by a friend that the windows download I did put files on as an iso which is a different file structure and he thinks I would have to take it to a specialist well ive been looking at a few online and quoting £200 upwards more than the hard drive lol if theres any more you can suggest please do I may have to face fact ive lost all the data on another note if I have lost all data can I get the hard drive working as before showing the full space available 4tb ive only used about 1tb and half that films not worried about losing that any way look forward to hearing from you again take care in these testing times andy

hello everyone im andy from Edinburgh hope everyone is ok and taking care of them selves ive posted a hard drive problem would love if you could take a few minutes to look thanks

can any one help im waiting on a new hard drive coming so last night I thought id download windows 10 on to my usb stick in preparation of new drive coming heres the trouble I accidently downloaded the files onto my external 4tb hard drive instead of my usb stick and now my external hard drive is showing 32gig size instead of 4tb and all my files are not there I think there still there but cant access them any help be apprecieated