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Originally Posted by JSWolf
How did you get the partition back without losing anything?
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There is a Linux program named "testdisk". You can use this to recover from a deleted partition table. Doesn't matter if you run Windows, Linux, or whatever normally. You will be using Linux for this repair process.
You start out by booting your computer into Linux. You can do this by booting from a "Linux Live CD" or from a thumbdrive. You do NOT install Linux on your computer. You will need access to a second computer to create a bootable Linux thumbdrive or CD if you don't already have one of those laying around (and you SHOULD, even if you're a Windows user!)
Boot into Linux from your thumbdrive/CD and run the "testdisk" program. Rather than me detailing all the steps on how to use testdisk, I'll just point to a tutorial on partition table recovery I found with a quick Google search so I didn't have to type it all in myself in this post:
https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-recov...table-in-linux
Another important program for disaster recovery is named "photorec". By the name, you would think this is only for photo recovery. But it recovers a lot more than just photos.
I would recommend downloading and burning "System Rescue" to a CD (it might require a DVD to fit these days) or to a thumbdrive. System Rescue is a self contained Linux system that you boot from CD/DVD/thumbdrive. This is your key to fixing all kinds of computer disasters, even if you are a dyed-in-the-wool Windows user. "System Rescue" has all kinds of disaster recovery programs pre-installed. It is dedicated to system recovery, so you're not going to find word processors, video editors, and the like installed. But you will find most anything you would need to recovery from a computer disaster (even Windows disasters) except for the obvious "no recovery possible" scenarios - like your computer caught on fire and melted.
https://www.system-rescue.org/