Question HELP! Accidentally formated Windows EFI/ESP partition!

[DIsraught-and-Confused]

While I was trying to format a different drive I accidentally formatted the EFI partition, now I'm aware that this contains important windows boot data. The computer is still on, so it's still working. I've been trying to recover the data but all programs are licensed. How do I recover the data or make new one?

 

[COLGeek]

Have you tried anything like this?

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us...-deleted/d6cc668a-2fe5-4848-86bc-91f1ab472360

 

[DIsraught-and-Confused]

A bit late, sorry. I already turned off the computer to see if it goes into the windows recovery menu and it says no bootable devices found. I downloaded windows 10 as an iso on another hard drive and thought that would be good enough for a clean windows installation but clearly not. Now I don't know what to do

 

[COLGeek]

Did you just download an ISO image? To use it, you need to burn to DVD or write to a USB drive. Is that what you did?

 

[DIsraught-and-Confused]

Did you just download an ISO image? To use it, you need to burn to DVD or write to a USB drive. Is that what you did?

Yes, that's exactly what I did. Is there any way to create a bootable drive from an Android?

 

[COLGeek]

I haven't used this method. Several sources offering similar via a simple Google search:

View: https/youtu.be/dsFPaNE9fVk?si=0j61RDilMQsOJh8Z

 

[DIsraught-and-Confused]

I haven't used this method. Several sources offering similar via a simple Google search:

View: https/youtu.be/dsFPaNE9fVk?si=0j61RDilMQsOJh8Z

Don't have the OTG cable. Is there really no way to boot up the windows recovery menu anymore?

 

[COLGeek]

Don't have the OTG cable. Is there really no way to boot up the windows recovery menu anymore?

Not if you removed/damaged it. Do you have access to another PC? Friend? Neighbor?

For future reference: https://forums.tomshardware.com/faq/windows-10-clean-install-tutorial.3170366/

If you had bootable Windows installation media, you could attempt recovery with tools available from it.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us...-windows-31ce2444-7de3-818c-d626-e3b5a3024da5

 

[DIsraught-and-Confused]

Not if you removed/damaged it. Do you have access to another PC? Friend? Neighbor?

For future reference: https://forums.tomshardware.com/faq/windows-10-clean-install-tutorial.3170366/

If you had bootable Windows installation media, you could attempt recovery with tools available from it.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us...-windows-31ce2444-7de3-818c-d626-e3b5a3024da5

Thank you so much for your help! I managed to use a very old PC to create a bootable drive, I imagine that the other links you provided are instructions on how to use said drive. Thanks a lot, I'm really sweating over here.