I wanted to install Windows 10 64bit on my pc with Windows 7 32bit. (I have a 64bit processor.) Then, I download the media creation tool from Microsoft and create a bootable drive from it. I choose a hard disk with 16 GB of Free Storage as the bootable disk. After the process is completed Windows Explorer shows that Hard Disk with a different name and show it as a drive with 32 GB Storage. (It was a 250 GB Hard Disk previously.) Can you please advice me what happend to the Hard Disk ? Is it formatted ? Please Help me.
Was the hard drive previously a 250gb single partition? Then it's formated into 32gb volume (partition) with windows bootable files and other 218gb as unallocated space(not shown in explorer).
Use Windows disk manager to regain the whole 250gb hard drive usable via either extending 32gb volume with other unallocated space or deleting 32gb volume and creating a whole new simple volume. (Windows Disk management guide link).
But if you had important data on the hard drive previously then they are formatted (media creation tools has a warning about this). You can still use a data recovery tool to recover you data back or get your data recovered by a professional. If so please don't use windows disk manager, keep the hard drive as it is to get best chance of data recovery.
