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Deleted partitions How to fix to boot again
So it looks like I screwed up my hard drive pretty good.
In the process of doing a restore of data so while I'm waiting I figured I'd ask questions and do research
I had a MBR system I recently upgraded to SSD and converted to GPT.
Only been a few days so hadn't gotten to backing it up yet.
I deleted both 100MB partitions.
Still doing a restore but looks like I'll have my 2TB and a 500-550MB partition.
I really don't want to format and do a clean install as I have some old stuff migrated from Windows 7
Once I get booted with a USB (Windows or another utility I have) what is the best way to use DISKPART to fix.
Looks like I need a 100MB partition and need to format it
format z: /fs:fat32
(I chose z but any letter I assign to it)
then at some point BCDBOOT c:\windows /s z: /f UEFI
Also what is the order of these partitions. (I have AOMEI if I need to move them)
Also I see my laptop has a 4th partition. I'm assuming that is optional and if wanted I can create a 15GB drive later and put the Windows ISO files there.
Worse case I can restore a backup from October (try to convert it from MBR to GPT) and then go from there.
OR is this the best option
Clean installing Windows 10 on the drive >
confirm that Windows boots and runs properly >
restore an Acronis of only the Windows partition C: >
perform a startup repair as necessary >
OS Name Microsoft Windows 10 Enterprise
Version 10.0.19045 Build 19045