By being tired and trying to wipe away a partition on a USB Stick to put an operating system on that, I inadvertently ran dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1M count=16
and not what I wanted to run
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc bs=1M count=16
By which time when I re-did the command I'd wiped the OS partition which has my NTFS partition with all my files and the recovery system files
![Neutral :|](./images/smilies/icon_neutral.gif)
Lesson 'don't do things on computers when tired' lol
I'll try http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec_Step_By_Step and see where I get to and the File Opt too ..
X fingers