Me: *reinstalling windows10 using the recovery disk.

"Your partitions will be reformatted if needed... warnings this, that... Continue?"
Me: do it already!

"Recovering... 1%..."
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"Recovering... 1%..."
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"Sorry cannot recover. We didn't change anything."

Me: *reboot
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"No bootable drive found"
YOU MOTHERFUCKING LIAR! *throws away the thumb drive with the laptop attached out of spite

is it testdisk time

i think it's testdisk time

It seems that Windows users are used so to it that they don’t expect anything else.

An incident like this was the last straw for me, in 2016. Since then, I have only run Windows in a VM, a cloud instance, or a local parsec machine.

0 <— number of times this has been successful for me.

@bahua sadly I still need to work with Windows on the regular.

@lastNick I don't know man. Microsoft likes fucking with users.

@Parzi instructions unclear. Tested dick. Length : 12 MICROmeter.

@Nanos You definitely are not the only one.
I'm now used to the abusive relationship with Windows, I guess. I have lost some recent changes but I have another disk that I can maybe clone.
Let's see how it goes.

@Nanos 😄
Hibernation will never work correctly!

Trying to create usb to install win on my pc... "This tool cant run on this pc - the reason is unknown" - Congratulation Winfuck

Time for linux

@jak645 for gaming not possible, for working i use mac

@neoliun

I game entirely on Linux. No complaints.

@neoliun hehe. gaming on Linux is about to be a strong thing thanks to steams project proton.

@Techno-Wizard

"about to be?" Proton is brilliant TODAY.

@bahua people dont realize it exists, but it's already almost identical in performance to native. Amazing considering its posix system call translation.

@bahua it's still not 80% complete yet... it will be AMAZING once it's over that!

this shit never works

make a linux bootable usb... configure or format all your partitions in linux live...

make a windows bootable usb... just install in that partition... no using of any fancy bells which never work

@dr-ant

This just occurred to me:

If this is a work machine, wtf are you doing messing with recovery and EFI? I would think that company policy dictates that you would turn it over to your desktop support people in an event like this.

@bahua no this isn't a work machine. When I said I need to work with Windows regularly I meant at home. Since my workplace uses Windows extensively, more of my time is spent on Windows even at home. The side projects I think of are often Windows based.

I have recovered some of my stuff. Dual booted again. 😬
Let's see how much longer it lasts.
This has woken me up to how lazy I've been with periodic backups. I'm thinking of investing for auto backups.

@Nanos yeah that's the thing. I was thinking of getting some hardware and writing my own tool that will at least work for me.

@Nanos oh! Didn't even think of that. Thanks for the warning.