Windows 10: I accidentally wrote over my Windows partition with Android

I am kind of at a loss on how to go backwards. I've got important stuff on the Windows partition that I must recover.

Prior to loading Android 8 onto my Surface Pro 5 I made a separate partition. Somehow the boot loader didn't see that partition and treated the entire drive as one. This ended up formatting windows off the machine and now all I have is Android.

This mega blows. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I am some what tech savvy, even if it's in a bumbly way. Please let me know if this is doable on my own or if I should just hire a pro.

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If you accidentally shrink the volume of your SSD partition, there is an option to extend the volume as well. To extend the volume of your SSD partition, follow the steps below:

• Press Windows key + X on your keyboard and select Disk Management.
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• Select the amount of space that you want to extend.

Keep us in the loop with the result.