Deleted Windows 10 Partion
Posted: 24 Apr 2026, 02:43
I have no idea what I'm looking at. I thought i would upgrade from windows 10 to 11 as 10 is no longer supported, I was hoping that the windows update thing would work but for some reason it says my hardware is not up to scratch, well it is. so to cut a very long and frustrating story short, I eventually got an iso file, with all my faffing I didn't do a backup. So I started a new instal and the installation said some thing about deleting a partition, and without thinking said yes, stopped and am now trying to recover said deletion. I was hoping to restore the partition so that windows can boot normally in ver 10 and then carry on with my upgrade. The hard drive is a SSD and the I have run TestDisk and have been presented with the following :
I'm also trying to learn from the experience on how to do these things but I think my capacity may be a bit limited
And I realised that I have no idea what I'm looking at, I've tried reading the examples and I just cant put two and two together. It says about checking the jumpers but its a SSD, no jumpers and all I did was delete one of the partitions? any help would be appreciated but also don't want to waste anyone else's time, so if I have to lose the lot and start over, well then that's the price....Disk \\.\PhysicalDrive2 - 960 GB / 894 GiB - CHS 116737 255 63
HPFS - NTFS 0 32 33 12 223 19 204800
HPFS - NTFS 0 32 33 12 223 19 204800
HPFS - NTFS 12 223 20 116672 5 52 1874129199 [Drive C:: Disk 2 SSD]
Invalid FAT boot sector
0 D FAT16 <32M 72287 37 30 271926 175 20 3207209220
FAT16 <32M 72287 37 30 271926 175 20 3207209220
Warning: number of heads/cylinder mismatches 16 (NTFS) != 255 (HD)
Warning: number of sectors per track mismatches 2 (NTFS) != 63 (HD)
HPFS - NTFS 30334 93 32 30334 191 31 6174 [Boot]
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Disk \\.\PhysicalDrive2 - 960 GB / 894 GiB - CHS 116737 255 63
The hard disk (960 GB / 894 GiB) seems too small! (< 2236 GB / 2083 GiB)
Check the hard disk size: HD jumper settings, BIOS detection...
The following partition can't be recovered:
Partition Start End Size in sectors
> FAT16 <32M 72287 37 30 271926 175 20 3207209220
[ Continue ]
1642 GB / 1529 GiB
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Disk \\.\PhysicalDrive2 - 960 GB / 894 GiB - CHS 116737 255 63 Partition Start End Size in sectors
>D HPFS - NTFS 0 32 33 12 223 19 204800
D HPFS - NTFS 12 223 19 25 159 5 204800
D HPFS - NTFS 12 223 20 116672 33 33 1874130944 [Drive C:: Disk 2 SSD]
D HPFS - NTFS 12 223 20 116737 37 36 1875175424 [Drive C:: Disk 2 SSD]
D HPFS - NTFS 30334 93 32 30334 223 33 8192 [Boot]
D HPFS - NTFS 116672 33 34 116737 5 4 1042432
I'm also trying to learn from the experience on how to do these things but I think my capacity may be a bit limited