Windows 10: Is my Data lost?

So i wanted to make a fresh install on my PC, i grabbed a USB-Stick and used the Windows Media Creation Tool. After it finished, i wanted to access a .txt on my USB-Stick where i had some Information for me after the new install. However, i had choosen the wrong option for my stick and i converted the whole usb stick. My data seems to be lost right now, and with the usage from recovery tools i can only access old data from 5+ years ago which wasnt on the stick anymore. is there now a way to get everyhing back or did i lose all the data with 1 stupid click?[moved from de-de]

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Lost data from hard drive, what to do now?

Well, I'm sorry to hear that it's a WD My Passport that failed on you, @tomhenry ! *Frown
I'd recommend you to try using a different USB cable with it and see if that will help your system to detect it without it disconnecting.
I'd also suggest you to go to Disk Management and see how the drive is listed there. It won't hurt to check up on the health and SMART status of the HDD by running the QUICK and EXTENDED tests from the WD's Data LifeGuard Diagnostics. Here's a link to the available software: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=11ZOpD

Give these troubleshooting steps a try and keep us posted with the results!
SuperSoph_WD

 

LOST DATA ONENOTE

Hi Jeff,





There are a lot of possible factors for this matter. To isolate the issue, I have a couple of questions for you:

• 
  Were there any changes made before the issue occurred?
  
• 
  What activity triggered the issue?
  
• 
  Were there any error messages appear before your device went to repair mode?
  
• 
  What troubleshooting steps have you done so far?
  

I recommend that you perform a system restore and see if you can still recover the lost data. To perform a system
restore, follow these steps:

• 
  Go to
  Control Panel.
  
• 
  Change
  View to Small icons.
  
• 
  Choose
  Recovery.
  
• 
  Click on
  Open System Restore.
  
• 
  Choose the restore point to when the issue is not occurring.
  

For more information, check to the article entitled
"Recovery
options in Windows 10" and refer to the instructions under
Restore from a system restore point.



We'll waiting for any updates from you.



Regards.

 

Edge Search Does Not Permit Change of Region


I got these suggestions from the Microsoft Community forum.No. 1 worked for me:

Thank you for posting the query on Microsoft Community. I am glad to assist you on this.
We have reproduce the issue here and we are able to access non-regional search for google using Microsoft Edge.
I would suggest you to try the below steps and check if it helps.
Step 1:
Clear browsing data option of Microsoft Edge and check if you face the issue. To do so perform the steps below.

1. Click on the More actions icon next to the feedback icon present on top right corner of the Project Spartan homepage.
2. Select Settings and click on Choose what to clear.
3. Check the boxes Browsing history, Cookies and saved website data and Cached data and files and click on Clear.

Step 2:
I suggest you to create a new user account and check if the issue occurs.

1. Go to Settings.
2. Choose Accounts and then select Family and other users.
3. Select add someone else on this PC.
4. Enter a user name and hit next.
5. Click on Finish.
6. Sign out from the current Account and Log into the new account.

Step 3:
It could also happen because of network issue. I suggest you to try with different network connection and check if it helps.