3 Proven Ways to Fix External Drive Turned Into Esd-USB| Restore ESD Drive Back into NTFS Drive

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If you accidentally converted an external hard drive to ESD-USB format and now see it as an ESD-USB drive rather than an NTFS drive, this video will explain how to repair this.

Windows is installed from a disk drive (usually a portable USB Drive) which has an ESD format. You may wonder why an ESD drive is being shown on your computer, the answer is simple. You may have selected the wrong drive while creating a portable disk using Windows Installation Tool. Now, let's look in to the details of an ESD Drive.

📌Timestamp
00:00 Intro
00:34 How your drive turns into ESD Drive?
00:54 How to Recover Data from an ESD Drive?
02:08 How to Turn an ESD Drive back into NTFS Drive?
02:23 Method 1. Format the disk drive.
02:50 Method 2. Use CMD to delete and format the disk drive.
03:43 Method 3. Use Disk Management to delete and format the disk drive.

👉How your drive turns into ESD Drive?

If you accidently selected another drive instead of the USB drive. Windows would format it (deleting all your data) and make a copy of Windows installation disk on that drive. Whatever the size of the drive may have been previously, it would now only show 32GB space in the drive.

👉How to Recover Data from an ESD Drive?

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👉Method 1. Format the disk drive

Go to This PC and right click on the ESD drive. Select Format. Select the NTFS option from the File System dropdown menu and click format. Wait and let windows format the drive and it will be ready to use. However, please note it will only show 32GB free space. Follow the methods below to learn how to get all the space back.

👉Method 2. Use CMD to delete and format the disk drive

Search for CMD in the start menu and click run as administrator.Type CHKDSK D: /f
Here, D is the drive letter for your drive. Press Enter.
Let the scan complete, it will fix any errors with the drive. Then type: Diskpart
Now type Disklist. Select the disk drive and type "Select Disk 1". Here disk 1 is the ESD disk. Now type clean and press enter. After cleaning type "Create Partition Primary" and press enter. Now enter format fs=ntfs label-new quick. Finally type "Assign letter=f". This will create a NTFS drive with letter f. Type exit to close CMD.

👉Method 3. Use Disk Management to delete and format the disk drive

Open Disk Management and select the ESD Drive. Right click it and select Delete. This will delete the ESD partition and the 32GB space it had previously will be added to unallocated space. Now select the unallocated space and click create volume. Assign the drive space and letter. Right click and format it to NTFS. Now your drive is ready for use.