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WD Hard drive not workng after naking it a recovering drive for WIndows 8

I purchased a new laptop a few days ago and my dealer told me to make a Windows recovery drive. I had a spare WD passport 320GB external HDD so i thought to use it. When I was making the recovery drive, Win8 formatted my eHDD to 32GB. Then after some time it gave an error that "Recovery Drive not successful" (something like that). Now I am strucked up. I can use only 32GB of my HDD. I formatted it "normally" a hundred times but I can only use 32GB. Rest is not shown in Properties of HDD.

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If you repartition the drive, clearing the 32Gb partition, if the drive is not damaged, it should then format properly.

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