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Deleted the wrong partition...

NorthLake
By NorthLake
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I know, I know, it's the stupidest thing I could do... Don't judge me...

So I've accidentally deleted the wrong partition on my laptop (from internal drive instead of the external one). It seems that Windows used it to boot, because now I get a BSOD every time I boot it up. Besides the now empty space of about 17MB there are three other partitions: Windows (1TB), Recovery (524MB), and ESP (105MB).

Does anybody know what the partition that I've stupidly deleted is, and whether I can do anything to revert my stupid actions without reinstalling Windows?

 

This is a screenshot of all the partitions on the drive made with a Kali drive I had lying around:

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that is (or was) the windows bootloader, no idea if it can be restored without reinstalling

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You can actually restore that with a kinda re-install. grave your winDVD and do a inplace upgrade it should rebuild that partition and just copy over the windows files without affecting too much

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1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

backups?

 

there are ways to recovery, but backups are great.

I do have a backup, but it's only of the Windows partition. :(

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it is possible to get back that partition without losing data at all (i have deleted a 1tb partition by mistake before), but i dont know how you would do that without windows..

 

 

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easiest option is to put windows on USB and do a recovery, maybe windows could fix that by itself without losing anything

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3 minutes ago, NorthLake said:

I do have a backup, but it's only of the Windows partition. :(

Ouch! Sorry! This is a little late for you you but your experience should underscore for others the importance of having backups of your data. Ideally, you should have two backups, one kept onsite and the other offsite and the two backups should be swapped out frequently to facilitate keeping the offsite backup as up to date as possible. But even only one backup trumps no backup.

Jeannie

 

As long as anyone is oppressed, no one will be safe and free.

One has to be proactive, not reactive, to ensure the safety of one's data so backup your data! And RAID is NOT a backup!

 

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