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After my Windows on my Laptop refusing to work for 1 week straight despite me and experts trying everything I/we could, (Still no idea why windows would never leave the boot menu) I decided to wipe the partition and give it to my trusty Fedora 30...
Loosing all my music, wallpapers, saves and photos I ever took is a hard blow but at least I back-up-ed everything important. (Should have done that with everything though....)
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Oh wow, you even bitlocked it. I don't remember what I had used back then. You might want to search for something like "restore data from formatted hard drive" but most probably you will find tools that will try and sell you stuff. But if you have the time, you might give it a try and maybe even find some freeware.
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A quick search led me to this:
https://www.techradar.com/news/the-best-free-file-recovery-software
(#2 seems promising. #1 seems to overwrite your files so be careful. I had good experience with the company of #3, EaseUS, but that was with their partition tool not with their recovery tool). Most of them have restrictions for the free version though. Be careful when executing them and read everything carefully so you don't wipe your current data
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Yeah - a few years ago I though encrypting it was smart... for some reason I don't even understand myself anymore. Considering that it was wiped, and with it technically the encryption too, I tried to do some Linux magic but so far I had not success. I'll check out what you have posted. Messing with hard drives is usually dangerous, but since I gave the partition that had windows to my Linux I might be able to get some stuff. Thank you!
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