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Ok I give up... time for a fresh windows install. Spend more time trying to fix this than it would take to redo a few things that got deleted.

cgrenier wrote: 11 Jun 2018, 05:59 If it doesn't work, use PhotoRec. Be careful to store the recovered files on another partition.

Just tried it twice.... nope only found EFI partition files. Any other ideas?

You can try to recover your old partition using testdisk, analyse, quick search, stop, deeper search...
If it find your old partition, use 'p' to list its files, if it works, set the partition as P(rimary) and on next screen, choose write, confirm, Quit and restart your computer.
If it doesn't ...

This happened to my 500gb nvme SSD in my laptop. I originally used it for a triple boot hackintosh (100gb OS X, 100gb Ubuntu and around 300gb Windows) but ended up deleting Ubuntu and OS X after a while.
I still had the partitions but I never really cared because I had a ton of free space and ...