How to recover deleted boot drive
How to recover deleted boot drive
I noticed something might be wrong with your setup. You mentioned using Windows 10 on an older drive, but it seems like the OS partitions were cleared during installation. Double-checking confirmed you didn’t remove your boot drive, yet you can’t boot now and your BIOS blocks access. The drive is a Samsung Evo 970 with 500GB. It’s possible the formatting caused issues—try restoring the original OS or checking for errors before proceeding.
SSDs lose data quickly when TRIM is active. I’ve experienced this firsthand—when I replaced my flash drive with a system drive, I realized the importance of checking boot modes. If the OS was set to UEFI and you booted in legacy mode, the drive might not appear, making accidental deletion easier. Recovering data from such situations is generally not possible. You might attempt recovery, but if you requested erasing the partition table, it’s likely gone. However, if only the EFI partition was affected and the main data remains intact, disconnecting the drive, reinstalling Windows on another device, and reinserting it could help retrieve information from the primary partition. This assumes you didn’t delete the entire drive; otherwise, a secure erase might have been triggered.
I've looked back in and this is what I see... I do have another ssd I can install windows to and try to get some stuff back. I really want to try to get the old one back though cause I don't want to redownload/install everything. Thankfully I kept the important stuff on a seperate drive.