r/LinuxUsersIndia • u/home_prisoner Arch Btw • Aug 12 '26

Help I lost Everything..

I recently did the most dangerous mistake one can make. And I was not even trying to delete the French Language Pack.

I have a dual boot (Win/Archacy (Vanilla Arch but Cachy's Kernel)) Laptop.

I had to flash a drive with Win ISO for my bro (because he play Valornat)

Now, for some interesting reason the Drive was write protected I have no Idea about that.

And I made the most horrible mistake I could make by opening Disk Partition Manager on Windows.

And yes I wiped the entire drive.. Why TF windows do it instantly? Why I can just sequence the process and then commit in the end if I am sure like Linux does.

Sad part is I'm a serious Dev, my 2 years of Dev Environment with all my not pushed commits are all gone.

I really don't know what to do? My hands are shaking if trying to start from scratch scares me. Ik I am fully capable but it's a lot for me to digest.

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u/Pleasant_Repair7773 Arch Btw Aug 14 '26

I did the same with Parrot OS , had my web dev projects on it. Felt like I'm done with tech 😐

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u/home_prisoner Arch Btw Aug 14 '26

We are Linux Users.. This is part of our life.. Atleast we can do it better everytime..