I'm absolutely freaking out right now. I upgraded my PC from old gen intel CPU and asus rog strix Z390-E mobo to a AMD 5 Ryzen 7800X3D cpu and rog strix B650E-F mobo. I saw online when you switch mobos and cpus ESPECIALLY from Intel to AMD you should fresh install windows.
Like an idiot I didn't think about what a fresh install means and when you're at the window to choose the disk what deleting all those partitions does (I know you get a message that files will be lost). However, it wouldn't let me fresh install unless I deleted all those partitions and many websites/videos confirmed this. So, I happily deleted them all with nothing backed up.
The PC boots up fine and I see nothing but the drive I put the windows install on and all my data is gone. This absolutely will turn my life upside down losing all those files. I know it's my fault, but I rushed thinking it would be fine. I fresh installed long ago in the past with no issues, but I have no clue what I did different (I think I unplugged all the other drives except the drive I wanted windows/boot on - then plugged the other ones in after it was fresh installed).
My question is, am I completely screwed? Is there anyway to recover what was on those drives, or did I completely wipe them without any hope of getting it back? It's really over for me if that's the case...
Like an idiot I didn't think about what a fresh install means and when you're at the window to choose the disk what deleting all those partitions does (I know you get a message that files will be lost). However, it wouldn't let me fresh install unless I deleted all those partitions and many websites/videos confirmed this. So, I happily deleted them all with nothing backed up.
The PC boots up fine and I see nothing but the drive I put the windows install on and all my data is gone. This absolutely will turn my life upside down losing all those files. I know it's my fault, but I rushed thinking it would be fine. I fresh installed long ago in the past with no issues, but I have no clue what I did different (I think I unplugged all the other drives except the drive I wanted windows/boot on - then plugged the other ones in after it was fresh installed).
My question is, am I completely screwed? Is there anyway to recover what was on those drives, or did I completely wipe them without any hope of getting it back? It's really over for me if that's the case...