External SSD destroyed?

I had a perfectly normal 512 GB external SSD that connected via USB. A year ago, I formatted something or something similar, and the storage shrank to 32 GB. I didn't have time to deal with it back then, but now I have some time and wanted to know what I can do.

As far as I remember, you could choose between two formatting options and I chose FAT32 without thinking twice.

Reformatting with NTFS doesn't undo it. Can anyone help me?

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flauski
1 year ago

As you write FAT32, I’m just going out of Windows.

So you plug in the SSD and open the Disk Management. Fastest way, right mouse button on the start icon and there you find it quite centrally.

In the now opening window, you will see all computer drives listed, now identify your external drive. It should just have the highest number. To verify the size, because what’s gone is gone.

Example on my PC with a USB stick.

You should see why the drive is so small. So there should be only a small blue and a quite large black area. Right-click the respective areas to open the options. After copying all the important data from the disk to the PC, I would delete the blue area and then create a new volume that covers the entire drive. So right mouse button, new volume, then clickibunti maximum size, episodes….., NTFS, Standard and Finish.

flauski
1 year ago
Reply to  Johennn3112

Sure.