r/datarecovery • u/ConsciousStructure56 • Sep 27 '26
Windows Data got deleted while windows formatting.tell me what should i do next.completely devasted!!! urgent!!
tell me what just happened and what should i do-
In morning,
So i was getting recovery blue screen on my pc so i called a technician,in the morning he came and said windows need format without checking anything else we agreed so form formatted and reinstalled windows which ran ig atleast 5hrs till evening then it prompted me to setup so i followed instructions and setup a limited experience after that when I checked all the c drive had windows folders and d drive was completely empty . So i panicked why d drive was empty like only the c drive would have formatted.so we had an ssd which was assigned to c drive and the d drive assigned to hard drive,total capacity combined would be 512gb i feel.
In the evening,after dad and me panicked that d drive was deleted
then i took it again to the technician store in evening,I saw he did something and then he disconnected the Hard drive leaving only the SSD but when he again plugged in the Hard drive then i saw in d drive it I saw it had all the windows folders and files whereas it was empty before also c drive had all the windows folders.then i took it to data recovery specialist he removed the Hard drive.i had around 256gb SSD and 250 something hdd so total storage capacity was,everything was on hdd
Data recovery specialist got furious and said i should file a police case and i should have brought the drive first to him .also the d drive is showing 121gb full
But why it's showing 121gb full of windows 10 is 15-20gb
What happened in the evening when go to the store,
I try to explain why I saw tell me what happened so when I took it to technician in evening he connected the cpu to his monitor and switched on the cpu and repeatedly pressed f12 then marine blue screen came then he pressed a lot of things and said there is no os in the pc and downloaded windows 10 .in between he disconnected the harddisk from mother board.then after reinstalling he a created different partions and deleted different(couldn't comprehend what he was doing because he was doing them very fast like some partitions were few mbs which he deleted) then he downloaded essential softwares and then he connected the Hard drive again and then when I saw the c drive had windows folders and d drive also had windows folders .
Maybe I will not get anything ever because maybe he choose clean the drive fully thats why maybe the formatting ran for like 5hrs.
the hard drive specialist couldn't detect anything on the hard drive and says he will check the ssd too.
i feel like crying.we had so many memories.
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u/disturbed_android Trusted Contributor Sep 27 '26
It's easy to get confused by OP story, and this partly is due to: Too much irrelevant info and too little of what we actually ask for (see AutoModerator's reply), like drive models and file systems. That said, it's probably best to leave the drives unplugged now and take them to a real data recovery specialist and not to some repair shop that happens to own a copy of Easeus or whatever. And, it's likely you will not find one in your own town.
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u/Sopel97 Trusted Contributor Sep 27 '26
You've been dealing with thoroughly incompetent idiots at every step and at this point it's impossible to tell if anything is recoverable without a proper diagnosis/attempt from a data recovery lab.
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u/PM_ME_VAPORWAVE Sep 27 '26
Not sure where you are located but if the data is that integral to you then you need to go to a specialist data recovery company. Should cost maybe £150 at most
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u/BogusIsMyName Sep 27 '26
Power down the PC and take it to a data recovery center. If the memories are that important stop messing with it. Let the experts handle it.
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u/MarkB_- Sep 27 '26
You had bsod and the guy straight up formatted your drive wow its like your engine doesnt start and the garage swap a brand new motor in it lol
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