Please help, something went horribly wrong

[SoulSails]

Hello, I had an incident that resulted in my computer's hard drive being wiped completely. as a result of this, I have lost access to basically everything (with the sole exception of my forum account, I was actually able to remember the password this time). Could I please have assistance in making a new VT account? I can't exactly do anything with the old one anymore. (both of my original emails are lost too)
I deeply apologize for the inconvenience.

 

[Flamma Bellum]

Hello, I had an incident that resulted in my computer's hard drive being wiped completely. as a result of this, I have lost access to basically everything (with the sole exception of my forum account, I was actually able to remember the password this time). Could I please have assistance in making a new VT account? I can't exactly do anything with the old one anymore. (both of my original emails are lost too)
I deeply apologize for the inconvenience.

For hdd, if it had important files try Recuva app while having connected hdd to your pc, it can restore deleted files. Sometimes if it was deleted long ago the quality can be worsen of restored files, but still.

 

[SoulSails]

For hdd, if it had important files try Recuva app while having connected hdd to your pc, it can restore deleted files. Sometimes if it was deleted long ago the quality can be worsen of restored files, but still.

I suppose I'll try it, most likely won't get anything out of it (My operating system is just outright gone)
I already had it taken somewhere, and nothing was able to be done.

 

[Ol argedco luciftias]

Yes, there are software tools available to detect the partitions and file structures that were previously written onto a drive. Even if information has been deleted, really nothing is deleted and it is still there in many cases. Only the small instructions to point to that exact specific memory location is what was deleted, but all of the memory addresses themselves have not actually been overwritten or replaced by all 0s. Unless of course you continue using it, and some new thing is later written into that same memory location, which would then actually erase the original.

Stop using this drive immediately. Set up your computer again with a new drive, preferably a solid state drive which will be far less likely to die in the future than a mechanical hard drive. A 2.5 inch solid state drive will be more durable than a 2.5 inch hard drive, but it will still be limited to a slow Sata III communication speed of like 6Gb per second. You may have a place on your motherboard to install an M.2 NVME drive instead like a 2280 nvme ssd stick. 2280 means size 22mm wide and 80mm long. Depending on your motherboard and other components, you can use a gen 3 or gen 4 drive which will be a lot faster than a 2.5 inch solid state drive or hard drive. You can always use a Gen 4 drive, and just you might not get the fastest possible speeds from it if your motherboard is meant for Gen 3, but there are no compatibility problems and it will still be very fast.

Set your computer up with a new drive. Stop using the old drive. Then you can get a 2.5 Inch Hard Drive to USB Adapter to plug your old hard drive into the computer, and use a program to scan for what file structures were written on there before and will able to possibly back most documents or files.

 

[Ol argedco luciftias]

This is something that has happened to everybody, and it is a good lesson to learn for the future. You will see that even if it has been inconvenient, it is probably not really a big deal. There is likely nothing on there that is really so important that you can not download or find again. And it is a lesson to back up the most important things to another external drive which you can disconnect and keep somewhere safe. Or preferably multiple different types of backups.

A common phrase people say is 3, 2, 1. Have 3 different copies, on at least 2 different drives, and with one of the drives in at least 1 other different location. Even just having 1 large USB stick or external hard drive where you can put another copy of the most important things is an important idea.

 

[Ol argedco luciftias]

I suppose I'll try it, most likely won't get anything out of it (My operating system is just outright gone)
I already had it taken somewhere, and nothing was able to be done.

It likely is not so serious. The file structure is probably still on there, like I described in my other message. What is very common to happen on a hard drive is the Boot Sequence gets corrupted which will prevent the OS from being able to boot up, so it will look like it is missing. But really only a few folders are corrupted. You can make a USB stick into a Creation Media for that operating system, the same way you would use to install the operating system for the first time. Write on the outside with a marker what this is so you remember. And many times if there is a corrupted boot sequence or other problem like this, you can go to Advanced Options and plug in the Creation Media USB stick, and use this to rebuild and repair the damaged files.

 

[Flamma Bellum]

I suppose I'll try it, most likely won't get anything out of it (My operating system is just outright gone)
I already had it taken somewhere, and nothing was able to be done.

After deleted windows from HDD wiped with everything, it was still recovering lost files, even the system files was able to be recovered. So sure try it.

 

[SoulSails]

Guys, I am just asking for help in getting back on VT, I need to make a new account but can't because it tells me to "contact your workspace admin".
That is all I am asking for, I have several USB's to back up the info on to now.

 

[Nikólaos666]

Guys, I am just asking for help in getting back on VT, I need to make a new account but can't because it tells me to "contact your workspace admin".
That is all I am asking for, I have several USB's to back up the info on to now.

Why do you need to create another account? You dont need you HDD to access your email adress...

 

[SoulSails]

Why do you need to create another account? You dont need you HDD to access your email adress...

When I said everything, that included my protonmails, I had stored it locally like a moron. Plus I had my passwords saved in a text document, and get around to copying them somewhere else in time.

 

[SoulSails]

After deleted windows from HDD wiped with everything, it was still recovering lost files, even the system files was able to be recovered. So sure try it.

Yeah so I tried it and a few others and got nothing. I think it's because of how my hard drive got fucked (wasn't in any normal way, my files literally blew up before the OS was deleted)
Thank you for your suggestion though.

 

[Ol argedco luciftias]

When I said everything, that included my protonmails, I had stored it locally like a moron. Plus I had my passwords saved in a text document, and get around to copying them somewhere else in time.

This is a very good news. Because something like passwords stored in a web browser's password manager setting, it would be very difficult to recover that. But if there is a text document, that probably could be recovered by finding it in the folders.

 

[SoulSails]

This is a very good news. Because something like passwords stored in a web browser's password manager setting, it would be very difficult to recover that. But if there is a text document, that probably could be recovered by finding it in the folders.

Believe me, I learnt the uselessness of password managers when I lost my previous computer to liquids.
Aside from that, no the files literally exploded, they are completely unretrievable in any sense, I tried nearly everything before making this thread.