Yesterday I had the message about an update on Windows 10. Because I had time, I clicked down now and install or something like that. I would not have preferred that. The PC does not boot up!
All data gone… I thought!
Have then removed the hard drive and attached in an external housing via USB to my laptop. As far as so good, this is also displayed to me. The disk previously consisted of the partitions C and D. I can only see D. This data I just secure on another external disk, fits.
The most important data I would have to secure necessarily would be found under C: \ Users \ MY NAME \ So the complete folder with documents, desktop, etc. I can't find this image of drive C. Yesterday someone told me I had to look for a WindowsOld folder. There's, but as a file with the extension .wim.
Did the unzipped with 7 Zip. There are actually all files from C inside, only my user folder is missing! Help… Can you find it somewhere? Do not think that he was deleted.
A first try with the purchased version of Recuva did not bring any useful result yet, but he is still scanning.
In addition, I have looked in the disk management, but all partitions are assigned and also have letters.
Any idea how I get to the data?
I would be very important.
I think that's not possible.
Try the following:
1. Rebuild your hard drive.
2. On your laptop you take a blank USB stick and download Windows from the Microsoft page, there's videos on the Internet.
3. You plug in the stick and start the computer (the manufacturer's logo should appear shortly, right?) While you press F12 (can also differ from each manufacturer) and go with the arrow keys in the boot menu. This looks different with every manufacturer, because I can't help you more exactly.
4. Here you choose to boot from the USB stick.
5. Now should come a Windows logo or similar. Bottom right / left should "Windows repair" stand. Click on it and if you're lucky the bug can be fixed.
Connect the hard drive and simply look in the corresponding folder.
Of course then with the changed drive letter.
If you do not find the appropriate partition, then it looks rather mau. Profile folders are a bit "strange" under Windows.
I would rather use a live Linux system. Reinstall disk into your PC and boot from a Knoppix or similar. http://www.knoppix.org
