Boot Drive
Boot Drive
It seems the primary storage area might have been erased and labeled as unallocated. Verify this by starting in Windows Recovery mode using the hard drive and launching Command Prompt. Run the diskpart list disk command to check the status. If you can access Windows, proceed to Disk Management and capture the output for review.
It indicates the space is unallocated, meaning you likely won’t regain it. But you might recover certain items if the formatting wasn’t thorough. There are probably options online to help retrieve deleted data—searching quickly could yield useful results.
Welp, you've overwrited the drive with a boot disk image. You won't be able to recover your partitions anymore, you've probably destroyed the old partition table. Luckily, you can try using software like PhotoRec to recover individual files, but the issue is that since the partition table is gone, all the files are just that, *data*, no filename or where it was originally stored. So you're gonna have to sift through potentially gigabytes of data to recover what you need. To make matters worse, anything that's been overwritten by flashing the drive with the boot image is gone, there won't be any way to recover anything that was in the first 32 GBs in the drive. Hopefully that's all just OS data though.