urgent help needed- lost partition

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  1. Posts : 9
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    Thread Starter
       #11

    dalchina said:
    You will only find out by trying.
    As your PC is unbootable, you need a live boot disk.

    Possibilities:
    Kyhi's boot disk- several data and partition recovery programs included.
    Windows 10 Recovery Tools - Bootable Rescue Disk
    Download the iso, create a bootable disk from it e.g. using the instructions in the Clean install Windows 10 tutorial, but using this iso file.

    Then there are others e.g.
    Download EaseUS Bootable Data Recovery Software to Recover Files - EaseUS
    I have been able to install Windows 10, and thats what wiped the drive.
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  2. Posts : 44,648
    Win 10 Pro (22H2) (2nd PC is 22H2)
       #12

    Thank you for your reply.

    Ok, you can still use Kyhi's disk anyway, which has, as I said, a lot of tools on it.

    Further, where you have a disk from which you wish to recover data, you should immediately stop writing to it.

    Installing programs does exactly that. Using a bootable disk doesn't.
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  3. Posts : 9
    windows10
    Thread Starter
       #13

    dalchina said:
    Ok, you can still use Kyhi's disk anyway, which has, as I said, a lot of tools on it.

    Further, where you have a disk from which you wish to recover data, you should immediately stop writing to it.

    Installing programs does exactly that. Using a bootable disk doesn't.
    i realise that.

    i have partitioned the current drive again so i can restore there once i have recovered files.
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  4. Posts : 4,835
    several
       #14

    You have reduced your chances of data recovery by

    installing an os to that disk
    using that disk
    repartitioning that disk.

    All the wrong things.

    Try bootable data recovery media.
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  5. Posts : 44,648
    Win 10 Pro (22H2) (2nd PC is 22H2)
       #15

    Kyhi's bootable disk- some programs you can at least try...
    urgent help needed- lost partition-untitled.png
    -some of which have been mentioned above. However, I think you'll be very lucky to get much back now.
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  6. Posts : 18,471
    Windows 11 Pro
       #16

    lukem said:
    I have been able to install Windows 10, and thats what wiped the drive.
    I beg to differ. What wiped the drive was you converting it to GPT.

    lukem said:
    I then deleted the drive i created new and after reading about converting drive to GPT it worked
    diskpart
    select disk x
    clean
    convert GPT
    exit

    The clean command wipes the drive.

    Now that you've done so much on the drive, converted it to GPT and installed Windows 10 on it which re-partitioned the entire disk, your data is likely 90% gone and unrecoverable. You'll have to restore it from the backup you made.
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