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Does your WD, Seagate, Toshiba or LaCie external hard drive only show 32GB on your computer? When your 1TB, 2TB or 750GB external hard drive shows only 32 GB capacity on the computer, don’t worry. Here on this page, you’ll find reliable methods provided by EaseUS software to help you out of external hard drive shows only 32GB error and even restore the drive to full capacity without losing any data now.

Don't worry when your external hard drive shows only 32GB. We have a complete fix for you. All you need is to follow through provided methods in the below and you will get your drive full capacity back:

“Hi guys, do you know how to restore a 1TB external hard drive which shows only 32GB on Windows 10 PC back to its original space without losing any data on it? I have a 1TB Seagate external hard drive which saves about 200GB of useful data. Last week, I installed Windows 10 on my computer with the external hard drive, creating an installation tool on it.

After the Windows installation, I connected the external hard drive to my computer, and it turns out that my computer can only read 32GB files which are just about Windows installation. Where are my old data? Is it possible to access the lost data back and restore the 32GB external hard drive to its full capacity again? How?”

According to the online searching result, it seems that many ordinary people have encountered the external hard drive or hard drive, USB, etc. not showing the right capacity issue. And external hard drive showing 32GB is a top issue that has confused many ordinary users. So what makes 1TB or even 2TB external hard drive shows only 32GB?

Here is a list of reasons why external hard drive or USB shows only 32GB:

1. Creating WinPE bootable disk
2. Creating a Windows installation or Windows backup image disk
3. External hard drive storage error

So how to fix this issue and restore the full capacity to your external hard drive or USB, hard drive? Here this page has gathered reliable methods for you to try and you can follow the two parts below to fix this issue right now:

Part 1. Fix and restore external hard drive which shows only 32GB to full capacity

As we’ve mentioned in the above paragraphs, the reasons why external hard drive, hard drive or USB with huge capacity becomes only 32GB available are varied. So the ways to fix this issue and restore full capacity to the storage device are also multiple. Here you’ll find three recommended methods, and you can follow and follow one to fix and restore your device to its original full capacity now:

Method 1. Update external hard drive driver

Step 1. Connect the not working USB flash drive to PC, right-click on This PC/My Computer and choose Properties.

Step 2. Click 'device manager' on the left taskbar > Expand USB Serial Bus controller, then you'll see a yellow exclamation mark, and right-click on it and select 'Update driver' or 'update driver software'.

Step 3. Click 'automatically search for driver software online'...

Method 2. Update the firmware of an external hard drive

To do this, you’ll have 3 steps to take and follow to see the detail operation steps now:

Step 1. Check the firmware version of your external hard drive/hard drive/USB

1. Connect your external hard drive to the PC.

2. Right-click on Windows icon and select Device Manager.

3. Select Disk Drivers, expand it, then find and right-click on your external hard drive, select Properties.

4. Click Details and then select Hardware IDs from the Properties drop-down menu.The manufacturer and firmware version information will appear in the Value box.

Step 2. Download the firmware update of your external hard drive/device

1. Go to the website of your external hard drive’s manufacturer and enter the support page of the company or searching for download drivers on the website.

2. Click Support, Download or Drivers.

3. Then enter the model number of your external hard drive or hard drive in Search Knowledgebase, Search Downloads or Model / Parts ID to find the right one.

4. Check for update firmware.

1. If the new firmware of your drive is available, click Download, Install or Download Firmware to download and install it to a portable USB drive.

Step 3. Burn downloaded ISO and upgrade the firmware

1. Open the portable USB which saves your firmware ISO of the external hard drive and right-click on the ISO file, select Burn Disk Image.

2. Insert a writable disk or USB to your PC and select the optical drive from the Drive Burner and click Burn.

3. Restart your PC and the burned disk or USB drive, press F2, F10, F12 or Esc to bring up BIOS.

4. Select your optical or USB drive using the arrow keys and hit Enter.

5. Follow the firmware upgrade instructions and when you complete the upgrade process, you’ll get a working external hard drive with full capacity by then.

You can now check whether it’s recognized by the computer with its right capacity or not. If not, try Method 3 and it’ll help you to solve this issue.

Method 3. Delete 32GB partition and create new partition to restore full capacity on the external hard drive

When the computer only recognizes the 32GB partition on your external or internal hard drive, the best way to restore it to full capacity is to delete the 32GB partition and create a whole new partition on it:

1. Connect the external hard drive to PC and right-click on Device Manager, select Disk Management.

2. Locate and right-click on a 32GB partition on your external hard drive, and select Delete Volume.

Note: If you have important data saved on the drive, you can now follow Part 2 to restore all lost data with the help of powerful data recovery software now.

3. When Disk Management shows you a whole unallocated space on the external hard drive, right-click on it and select the New simple volume to create a new partition with all space on it.

4. Rename the drive and set the file system to NTFS.

After this, you should be able to use the external hard drive with the full capacity to save data again.

Part 2. Restore data from an external hard drive which shows only 32GB

If you have important data saved on the external hard drive which used to show you with only 32GB space, you can apply the best hard drive data recovery software provided by EaseUS to fully scan and find all lost data with ease now:

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Step 1. Choose the external hard drive

Since you're going to recover data from the external hard drive, run EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard and under the External Devices tab, choose the exact drive where you lost data. Click Scan.

Step 2. Scan for lost data

The software will start immediately to scan all over the selected drive for all lost data. During the scan, you could see more and more data showing up in the results.

Step 3. Preview and recover data

After the scan is over, check the scan results for the desired data. You can preview the file by double-clicking on it. Click Recover and choose another location to save the recovered data.

After this, you should be able to use your 1TB or 1TB WD, Seagate, Toshiba or Lecia etc external hard drive for saving data again.

Can I clone a large HDD to a smaller SSD in different size?

'Owing to some reasons, I cloned my 1TB hard drive to a new 500GB SSD. I know the size is not the same, but my drive only has 157GB used space. How do I clone hard drive different size without reinstalling Windows? It makes me confused. Any ideas?”

Cloning hard drive is a very popular way to boost performance, replace old hard drive, or just make a copy of backup. You can choose to clone large HDD to smaller SSD, 1TB to 500GB, for example, or clone hard drive to larger drive per your needs.

But there are some potential disk cloning issues you may need to know, such as, unallocated space after cloning. Please learn them in the following and then clone hard drive different size with a free yet powerful disk clone software.

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Disk cloning issues you need to know

In general, your computer comes with a hard drive. However, with the increasingly files added and programs installed, your disk may run out of space and the computer performance slow down dramatically. In this case, you may want to replace a hard drive in Windows 7/8/10.

But the hard drive does not comes with same size, usually, the SSDs are smaller than HDDs in most situations, which may cause cloning failure due to not enough disk space when cloning large HDD to smaller SSD, only most disk cloning software lacks of intelligent clone feature. AOMEI Backupper Standard is one of them.

Also, you may encounter the cloned hard drive shows wrong size issue. As a a matter of fact, after cloning hard drive to larger drive, the new hard drive is exactly the same as the old one, but the extra space still lies at the end of the new disk and is marked as unallocated space. You clone and resize hard drive with a little effort to make fully use of the space.

How to clone hard drive different size without reinstalling Windows?

Whether you want to upgrade hard drive to bigger one or clone large HDD to smaller SSD free in Windows 7/8/10, you could use disk cloning software AOMEI Backupper Standard. It works well in cloning hard drive with different sector size, even to smaller one. The premise is that the used space on larger disk requires to be equal to or smaller than SSD.

If not, you can still use “System Clone” feature to migrate only Windows 10 to smaller SSD. This feature is only available on the advanced version, such as, AOMEI Backupper Professional.

Here is a quick navigation to clone and replace hard drive.

Before you start to clone hdd with different sector size in Windows 7/8/10, you need to download free disk cloning software AOMEI Backupper and install it on your computer. Then, connect the target disk via USB cable and make sure it can be detected.

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Case 1: Clone 1TB HDD to 500GB HDD/SSD step by step

Step 1. Launch this software, click Disk Clone under the Clone tab.

Note: This version only supports cloning system disk with the same partition tyle, such as, cloning GPT disk to GPT disk. If you want to clone GPT to MBR or vice versal, you could consider upgrading to AOMEI Backupper Professional.

Step 2. Select the large hard drive as the source disk, here is a 1TB HDD, and click Next.

Step 3. Select the smaller SSD you plug in before as the destination disk, here is an 500GB SSD, and click Next.

Step 4. Tick 'SSD Alignment' to improve the performance of SSD disk. Then, click Start Clone to clone large HDD to smaller SSD free.

Notes:
◒ It's suggested to tick 'SSD Alignment' if your target disk is an SSD. Because it can accelerate the reading and writing speed for SSD disks using 4k alignment technology.
◒ Please do not check 'Sector by sector clone', otherwise the cloning process will fail. Because it will clone all sectors of disk to SSD but the SSD does not have enough space to hold everything on the larger disk.
◒ You can clone any size of disk to another one, such as, clone 2TB HDD to 1TB SSD, clone 1TB HDD to 250GB SSD, clone 500GB HDD to 250GB SSD, clone 1TB HDD to 500GB HDD etc.

Case 2: Clone hard drive to larger drive in detail

Step 1. In the main page of AOMEI Backupper Standard, click Clone and Disk Clone in order. Then, select the old 500GB HDD as the source disk and click Next.

Step 2. Select 1TB HDD/SSD as the destination disk and click Next. Then, back to the operation summary window, click 'Start Clone' to clone a hard drive to larger one.

Notes:
◒ Please remember to check 'SSD Alignment' to keep your SSD in the best condition.
◒ Beside cloning HDD to SSD, you still can clone smaller SSD to larger SSD in different size, such as, clone 250GB SSD to 500GB SSD, clone 250GB SSD to 1TB SSD, clone 1TB SSD to 2TB SSD etc.

Cloned hard drive show wrong size

As you know, the cloned hard drive show wrong size is a common question. But how to solve it? You can use 'Edit Partitions' in the advanced version, such as, AOMEI Backupper Professional.

It has three options, you can use any of them, including 'Copy without resizing partitions', 'Add unused space to all partitions', 'Manually adjust partition size'. The last option is more flexible, you can select any partition you want to adjust including system partition.

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AOMEI Backupper is a great choice for you to clone hard drive with different size, because it works well in disk cloning and can ensure secure boot. You can use it to clone large HDD to smaller SSD if the used space is smaller than or equal to SSD disk. Even if your SSD disk cannot hold all the data on the hard drive, you still can choose to clone Windows 10 to smaller SSD with 'System Clone' feature.

Also, you can use it to clone 500GB to 1TB HDD/SSD without the cloned hard drive different size not right issue. In brief, after cloning disk to larger disk, your target disk will show full capacity and you can use it to store more files and install programs etc on your computer.

In addition, the advanced version has more useful features, you are allowed to clone GPT disk to smaller SSD, clone hard drive from 2TB to 3TB, fix unallocated space after cloning a hard drive to larger drive with 'Edit Partitions', migrate OS with 'System Clone' if destination disk is too small etc. Want to enjoy these features? Please download AOMEI Backupper Professional at least.