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Hello good, to begin with I have made the biggest fuck up of my life. I took my father's hard drive where I kept all my photos, and I used it to format my Windows, then I installed the program that creates the Windows USB, and created a partition with this program, removing my photos.

And now its like this. (if the image cant not be seen, there are two partitions, one that is active with the windows exe, and other partition that is not allocated)

And TestDisk says to analize my disk in EFI-GPT mode. Is this correct? Is it possible to recover all the photos? Im very not used to the informathics world, and I need urgently help, because my dad will kill me :/

rikigarcia wrote: 21 Aug 2023, 20:13 Hello good, to begin with I have made the biggest fuck up of my life. I took my father's hard drive where I kept all my photos, and I used it to format my Windows,

If this disk is a data drive, how could you have used it to format the partition with your windows installation?

then I installed the program that creates the Windows USB

Do you mean a program that creates a USB pendrive that enables you to install a new version of the Windows operating system?

, and created a partition with this program, removing my photos.

And now its like this. (if the image cant not be seen, there are two partitions, one that is active with the windows exe, and other partition that is not allocated)

And TestDisk says to analize my disk in EFI-GPT mode. Is this correct?

Not necessarily. It depends on how the disk was partitioned before. Unfortunately you did not provide any information about your disk and the partition layout before the incident happend.

Is it possible to recover all the photos?

I guess you have overwritten lots of pictures.

Im very not used to the informathics world, and I need urgently help, because my dad will kill me :/

Please upload and attach your invisible picture to your posting using the attachments tab on the bottom of the tab.
Plase post your logfile as well.

Whatever image you have overwritten cannot be recovered. If Testdisk fails to show you a partition whose content can be listed using the "p"-key ("list files") in Testdisk
https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Step_By_Step
you are left to recover what's left with Photorec which comes at the price of losing picture names and folder structures.
As Photorec is the tool of last resort other commercial recovery software may still be able to recover content including folder and files in case of Testdisk won't be able to do that.