>just deleted my entire hard drive trying to dual boot windows+linux

How did you manage that

Never dual boot

how the fuck do you even manage to fuck up that bad

>>57103177
>>57103200
everything was going good. i shrank my SSD to make an empty space of 175gb for the antergos installation. i installed it successfully but then when i rebooted i found out GRUB didn't install so i couldnt get to the OS. i figured it was becausei messed up something installing it so i figured id just reinstall it. i tried to use diskpart to delete that 175gb partition but i couldnt do it on windows, i had to use a windows recovery stick (that i had from yesterday). i found the volume that had a 175gb drive (with filetype RAW, which i found odd), selected it, and then did 'clean.' thinking everything was ok, i tried to boot back into windows, only to find the entire hard drive was somehow deleted. and also somehow the boot files on my old hard drive. so i had to just fix that. and now i'm reinstalling windows, again, on my SSD.

Uefi or BIOS?

Just restore from backup

Next time, buy 2 hard drives and make 2 copies of your data.
If it's important then you can spend some fucking money on 2 cheap hard drives. I learned it the hard way, too

>>57103283
> thinking that MS "tools" will actually repair anything
Next time try to use proper Live USB for partitioning and stuff. Windows tend to spread and destroy the surroundings like cancer

Windows is cancer. It always has been, since Vista. Now it's like... aggressive childhood leukemia with AIDS and Parkinson's.

>>57103196
Why not? Im dual booting win 7 + ubuntu :^)

>>57103283
you probably doesn't understand diskpart and did sth wrong
>>57104247
actually diskpart can fix pendrive that is displayed in explorer as corrupted e.g. if there was used raw dd copy on it