Windows 10: linux partition erased by windows update

Well, it happened again. The unallocated 252.00 Gib section is where my old ubuntu installation's /home folder resided. Luckily this time I already had copied all my important files to another distro in another harddrive. Or else I'd have to spend 3 days recovering everything again.

Will microsoft ever fix it ?



Technical:
As windows supported only 4 main paritions, I had only 1 HDD & wanted my /home folder on separate drive from my / due to distrohopping habbits, I partitioned the drive in the following way.

• linux /
• windows C:
• windows diag
• extended
  • linux /home
  • windows D:
  • windows E:

:)

 

linux partition erased by windows update

Well, it happened
again. The unallocated 252.00 Gib section is where my old ubuntu installation's /home folder resided. Luckily this time I already had copied all my important files to another distro in another harddrive. Or else I'd have to spend 3 days recovering everything
again.

Will microsoft ever fix it ?

Technical:

As windows supported only 4 main paritions, I had only 1 HDD & wanted my /home folder on separate drive from my / due to distrohopping habbits, I partitioned the drive in the following way.

• linux /
• windows C:
• windows diag
• extended
  • linux /home
  • windows D:
  • windows E:

 

linux partition erased by windows update

It is very unusual that a Windows update deleted a partition, if the updates deleted the partition, then the updates should be installed in Linux partition. There must be something going on in your PC like what Valdemar have mentioned. We always gett a
confirmation before deleting a partition, right? Just sharing my opinion.

 

linux partition erased by windows update

Windows Updates do not erase partitions.

You have some other issue going on as Arjay Dom very rightly noted.