My laptop is (maybe was) Linux and Windows 10 dual booted. I was reinstalling the Linux OS and in the process I accidentally formatted the Windows 10 boot partition. At least I think it is the boot partition because I don’t really know how Windows works (or doesn’t work amirite).

This is the lsblk output:

$ lsblk -f
NAME        FSTYPE     FSVER LABEL [...] MOUNTPOINTS
nvme1n1     zfs_member 5000  zroot [...]
├─nvme1n1p1 vfat       FAT32       [...] /boot/efi
├─nvme1n1p2 swap       1           [...] [SWAP]
└─nvme1n1p3 zfs_member 5000  zroot [...]
nvme0n1
├─nvme0n1p1
└─nvme0n1p2 ntfs

The nvme0n1p1 is the one related to booting. I accidentally formatted it.

I have a Windows 10 USB prepared. I tried looking online and I never found a question asking exactly for this. The ones I found that were similar enough suggested different commands.

Anyone has experience with this?

Thanks in advance.

  • Emperor@reddthat.comEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    Try mounting nvme0n1p2 to see if your data is there.

    If it is you should be able to just use the install USB to repair the boot partition or just install it on top while preserving data.

    • loathsome dongeater@lemmygrad.mlOPEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      The data is still there thankfully. Haven’t solved the problem yet but I don’t wanna lose the stuff on it despite most of it being junk.