Internal Disk E imploded into Disk C after I flashed it with Nodara iso with BalenaEtcher. All data saved, but how do I get my storage without formating Disk C?

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So I bought a used laptop with windows 10 that is about to expire. It expired and I wanted to try Linux, because Microsoft is not attractive to me anymore.
Full of enthusiasm I downloaded official Nodara iso. Downloaded BalenaEtcher. But since it was an option to flash the iso on disk E (one of two INternal hard drives), I decided to give it a try. Since i don’t have a flash drive in possession and that is an option, not recommended but an option, I gave it a try.
I did back up all my data from both disks (except system files) on an EXternal HDD that I have, and decided to boot Nodara from internal disk E. What’s the worst that can happen? Fail and format it? Data is backed up.
So after failure to install Nodara I wanted just to recover my formatted disk E. I right click on booted disk E, and there is no “format” option. I turn computer off, turn it on again, and my Disk E disappeared completely.

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Funny but I didn’t plan wasting so much time. I rescanned disks and it didn’t appear.
I will install Nodara or Ubuntu from USB, but will disk E appear there? I probably should recover it, and on internet there is only info on recovering flashed booting USBs. I know, it’s not much storage that I lost, but I can not ignore it.
I searched for this problem here, and nobody had it. Hope you find it interesting and have a good mood to help. Thanks in advance.

Windows update is not available and system restore is not available too.

I also ran some commands by instruction on internet, that ended up with “list disks”, and it listed only one.

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File manager says C has 101 GB storage and Disk manager says it has 225 GB storage. So it put disk E into disk C, but without access. You can see details on the screenshot. So. How do I format only part E of the disk without deleting the system is a question I can not find the answer to. I think Balena Etcher community is the best place to ask, because I didn’t do any hacking, just used an option available in the program.
And I kind of need those spare 100 GB. I don’t have much storage on laptop anyway.

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OK. Since there is no other similar topic I will leave it.

Here is the solution. So that new volume from Disk E (in my case) that was created in Disk C is separated, you can see on the right on the screenshot. It’s highlighted with green. Turns out you can format it separately, because it’s already separated.
Right click → format… Then follow through.
After it’s formatted, right click again → Change Drive Letter and Paths… → Add. Follow the standards through that, you can choose the letter, my standard was E, Disk that I lost. And voila! You have the access to your lost storage. It’s fully recovered and works.
You are welcome.