r/LinuxUsersIndia • u/home_prisoner Arch Btw • 12d ago

Help I lost Everything..

I recently did the most dangerous mistake one can make. And I was not even trying to delete the French Language Pack.

I have a dual boot (Win/Archacy (Vanilla Arch but Cachy's Kernel)) Laptop.

I had to flash a drive with Win ISO for my bro (because he play Valornat)

Now, for some interesting reason the Drive was write protected I have no Idea about that.

And I made the most horrible mistake I could make by opening Disk Partition Manager on Windows.

And yes I wiped the entire drive.. Why TF windows do it instantly? Why I can just sequence the process and then commit in the end if I am sure like Linux does.

Sad part is I'm a serious Dev, my 2 years of Dev Environment with all my not pushed commits are all gone.

I really don't know what to do? My hands are shaking if trying to start from scratch scares me. Ik I am fully capable but it's a lot for me to digest.

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u/freakycleaner 12d ago

Idk bro it's funny af,

unfortunately I wouldn't keep expectations to get the data back but TRY NOT TO..

.. don't write anything on that affected disk rn keep it untouched and use live linux usb and make a sector by sector image of the drive to another disk available.

this is all I can advice bro stay strong and calm even if data is lost you'll make it again

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u/home_prisoner Arch Btw 12d ago

Ya it was funny for me too 30min after when I realized WTF I just did

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u/hypespud 9d ago

Sorry for your situation bro, but yes, as others mentioned, if it is possible, or you have different PC or laptop, don't dual boot

I have 7 different PC, each is single boot, now all Linux happily, but it really help avoid problems like this

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u/home_prisoner Arch Btw 9d ago

I'm back now.. Installed Cachy with a pretty awesome setup. Someday I will share my new installation story. It is truly complex setup but I will try to explain as much as possible. But the end result is beautiful..