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

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