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Hi,

I had a dual boot with Windows 8 and Linux. When I installed Windows 10 on the partition where Windows 8 was, suddenly I don't see the GRUB on startup anymore and when I go to the partition manager it says that my Linux partition has 100% free space.

Is there still a way to fix this or has Windows 10 just screwed me over?
 
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Sounds like the upgrade wiped out your linux partition. I would just reinstall the Linux distro back on that partition.
 
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bassfisher6522 said:
Sounds like the upgrade wiped out your linux partition. I would just reinstall the Linux distro back on that partition.
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I don't think that windows formatted that partition, but reset the pointers and counters that tells the OS how much data there is and where it is.

In other words, I don't think that the partition is empty, but it just looks that way.
Is there a way to mount that partition so I can recover some files?
 

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