Restoring factory image of WD Elements 500gb hard drive

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Hello. I recently used HDD raw copy, a hard drive image duplication software, to try to rescue one of my failing drives. The program locked up and my hard drive became inaccessible. So I tried to use the program again to see if it would unlock it, problem is I accidentally chose my Corsair 16gb flash drive as the source, so now my hard drive went from 500gb to a 15gb Corsair E: Photo shown below

Is there a way I can restore the original files/image of the drive back to its original 500gb settings?

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Welcome to the Community.

Is the hard drive detected within Windows Disk Management? If so, you should be able to delete the whole volume and format the entire drive as a single unit with no partitions.

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Alright, here’s what I did.

  • I went to Disk Management

  • I right clicked the drive and clicked ‘delete volume’

  • I went into the bottom pane and found my drive and right clicked where it said “unallocated space” then I clicked new simple volume