I was playing around in linux...

[Danman]

I was playing around in kali linux and i accedently wiped my c drive instead of another drive. Windows 7 and windows 10 is gone (had a dual boot) I used kali flom bootable flash drive and i need help getting the files and my windows operating systems back. Is there anything i can do?

[xAlphaStick]

If they are legitimate copies then contact microsoft and they can give you an .iso,,, 

 

As for your files they are gone. Formatting a drive is pretty much changing every binary digit to 0 as far as I am aware.

[Danman]

Have OEM are u sure theres nothing i can do :wacko: :unsure: :angry: :huh: :mellow: :blink: :wacko:

[Guest]

If they are legitimate copies then contact microsoft and they can give you an .iso,,, 

 

As for your files they are gone. Formatting a drive is pretty much changing every binary digit to 0 as far as I am aware.

 

Pretty sure it only initialises an empty file system, whereas a secure erase would indeed change every bit to a binary 0. 

[amp88]

It depends how you formatted the drive. If you overwrote the actual data you're probably going to struggle to recover much. Even if you didn't overwrite much, the chances of being able to recover a fully-functioning Windows install are slim to none. At best, you're probably going to be able to recover parts of some of the files on the drive (but, unless you have a set of file hashes from before you formatted the drive to compare against, you're not going to know what files were actually successfully recovered intact).

 

Probably the easiest way to try and recover your files is to connect the drive up to another computer (e.g. in an external enclosure or a docking station) and use recovery software (e.g. Recuva or EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard Free) and recover files to another drive (if you attempt to recover files to the same drive you have a high chance of corrupting other data on the drive).

 

I wish you the best of luck, but don't get your hopes up too much...

[Danman]

so os cant be recoverd but i had mucrosoft office 2013 on there if i get new os will it still work with the product key?

[Extingquish]

Before you do anything, make sure that you don't save *anything* to the drive, as that will overwrite any data that may still be there

 

When I accidently wiped my hard drive (I had actually only removed the part of data at the start of a partition that told the OS there was stuff stored there, I can't remember what it's called however) I used TestDisk to recover it

 

It's a commandline program, but it worked for me and there's some great guides out there on using it, here's the download for it: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

[ggcs.tk]

Somebody point this man at a MFT (master file table) recovery tool that can do recover on the file tables of windows 10 (usually all that is deleted when an overwrite has occurred but i haven't attempted a windows 10 recovery myself so don't know what works).

Don't go putting anything on the drive as the data is still there (in all likely hood) just the "map" to the files is lost the system MAY be able to be recovered with a file table recovery tool.