Installed Fedora 25 and now Windows 7 is gone, please help.
Hello people,
First of all I would like to say that I'm new here on Fedora. And therefore I do not know a lot about Linux.
Yesterday I have encountered a problem. When i was taking an online course I wanted to learn more about Linux. After hearing about it I downloaded the newest version, Fedora Workingstation 25 on my USB stick. Eventually I needed to start up my PC again. As I did, my USB stick was (I guess downloading) Fedora workingstation 25. It wasn't taking long. Probably around 10 minutes if it could be less.
When it was done I wanted to switch back to Windows 7. While trying to startup my PC, I couldn't boot up Windows. Everytime Fedora was starting up. I search on the internet for a solution for putting the 1st boot for Windows. But I didn't had that option.
Is there any way to check if i still have Windows 7 on my desktop? And I would really want to know how to get my files back from Windows 7, is there also a way for this?
Please let me know. Many greetings,
Yama.
open the terminal and paste the result of lsblk command here, this will let us know what partitions exists on your machine to see if there is a Windows partition, is there is one you may be able to recover your files.
I'm not really sure how to do that. But without the USB inside the computer I can't pas the message " Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key." But I can get to the BIOS menu.
It looks like you have and issue with your drive. Please open a terminal from the Fedora live USB and run lsblk to see the state of your drive partitions.