You can only extend partitions on the same physical drive. Have you gone back into disk management and you should see the D: drive as an unallocated drive. You will have to allocate the drive again and format.
As for using the D: drive once you recover it. Just use the C: drive for your OS and important programs and install games, other programs on the D: drive. When you are installing a program it will prompt you to install on the C: drive..something like C:\ProgramFiles\Games...etc. Just change the C: to D: and the program will use the 1 TB HDD.
And be sure to tell Windows to move its default folders, eg documents, videos, pictures, music, etc to D: so it stores your personal files on that drive and they won't eat up space on your C: drive.
You can google for instructions how to tell Windows to move the default folders...
JOcean
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January 5th, 2019 10:00
You can only extend partitions on the same physical drive. Have you gone back into disk management and you should see the D: drive as an unallocated drive. You will have to allocate the drive again and format.
As for using the D: drive once you recover it. Just use the C: drive for your OS and important programs and install games, other programs on the D: drive. When you are installing a program it will prompt you to install on the C: drive..something like C:\ProgramFiles\Games...etc. Just change the C: to D: and the program will use the 1 TB HDD.
https://www.disk-partition.com/windows-10/recover-lost-partition-windows-10.html
Kwaz
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January 5th, 2019 12:00
That's great, thank you
RoHe
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January 5th, 2019 19:00
And be sure to tell Windows to move its default folders, eg documents, videos, pictures, music, etc to D: so it stores your personal files on that drive and they won't eat up space on your C: drive.
You can google for instructions how to tell Windows to move the default folders...