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Solved secondary hard drive not full size after new OS install

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I have an older system with 2 seagate sata hard drives. 1TB and 3TB. I kept the OS and program files installed on the 1TB, and I would only keep media files (video, audio, images) on the 3TB. I had to use Seagate's Disc Wizard to be able to use the entire 3TB drive, as a 2TB and 1TB.

I recently upgraded the OS on the main drive from Win7-64 to Win10-32, which required a clean install. Once Win10 was installed, I could still see the secondary 3TB, but only as one 2TB drive (not the 2TB+1TB).

I downloaded and installed Seagate Disc Wizard again to get the full size back on the 3TB, but the only options I am seeing will require to format and delete everything to get it back to the full 3TB.

Is there a procedure I need to do to get the drive back the way it was with it's data? I can still see all data on the 2TB section of the drive, but missing the remaining 1TB section along with the data I had on that.

I do have a backup of my other 1TB drive that the OS was installed on. This also has the old Seagate Disc Wizard program that created the 3TB. Is there a file I need from it's folder to map the drives back?
 
Yes, sorry for the late reply. I actually found a backup of all data that was on the missing section of the drive. Therefore I used Disk Management to reformat to all one drive and replaced all data with the backup I had.

I actually preferred one drive for the whole space anyways. Thank you for your reply.
 
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