You are getting a surprise repair on your new LG Gram when you think everything is fine.
You are getting a surprise repair on your new LG Gram when you think everything is fine.
Help me, I'm so upset! On my LG Gram laptop, I accidentally started a PC recovery from the console. Now when I turn it on, it asks if I want to proceed with the restore. Can I just reset my hard disk in two seconds? If not, how do I get back my data? Thanks so much for any help.
It might take a few steps to wipe all of your files, so if you haven't reached that point yet, just close it. If you are on the LG Recovery Center, click the red X in the top right corner and leave without saving anything. Then you will start up Windows normally. If you pressed 'Next' after seeing the warning about losing data from a factory reset, then all your files were gone forever.
What kind of disk is it? If you put it on another computer either directly or inside a box over USB, you might be able to get the stuff back onto another drive using a little program called Recuva. If it was just a few seconds, the drive didn't have all its data wiped out with zeros, so at least some of the files are still there in theory. The question is if it wrote over something quickly, and that stuff would be gone (that's why keeping backups, especially more than one backup, of important things like your PC is just as basic as changing the filter in a furnace or the oil in your car).
At the very least, all your partition details were wiped clean. If you can put that drive in another computer or use some other method, maybe DMDE could find what's missing. DMDE Data Recovery for PC and Mac is a strong tool to help search for, edit, and restore lost data on hard drives. You get up to 4000 free files from any folder you pick it out of, no strings attached. dmde.com
It only took four seconds. Do you need a fancy external stick like the BC711 NVMe to fix it?
If you just entered the recovery screen and didn't move forward yet, your files are still safe there. It takes about 5 or 6 steps to delete everything. Your hard drive (SSD) is very fast and can write a lot of data in just four seconds. But that doesn't mean your stuff is gone; you'd have to take the SSD out to find it back. I didn't mean anyone was at fault for what the messages on the laptop told me. The same thing happens if you ignored the warning signs. Your data stays on the drive until someone actually moves it away or starts the deletion process.
Caveat to this... Some/most of the data may be recoverable. I strongly doubt that the entire drive including the whole OS is 100% recoverable exactly as it was. Recovering half of a txt file in a readable condition is one thing. 100% of the system as it was is something else.
If you need an NVMe, you usually put it into another computer or set up new Windows on the old drive and then move your data from there. Most of your information should be safe to get back, but you can't count 100% sureness in this situation. Once you recover everything and store it safely somewhere else, wipe out the hard drive and start a fresh install of Windows. Also make plans for the future since losing data without backups is easy to happen again.