Duplicate files deleted, now won’t boot.
Let me start by saying yes, I am an idiot. No defense or excuses. I ran out of space and didn’t want to screw around with external storage or putting in additional storage, so I ran a duplicate finder. And yep, you guessed it, I deleted all of the duplicates without looking at them. Stupid rookie move. I am not an expert by any means, but I should have known not to do that. Now the stupid thing won’t boot up. Tried ALL of the fixes and recovery options, a recovery usb, and a windows installation usb. Nothing, just errors.
It is an Acer Nitro 5 that was working great, even after 4 years of regular use. Just ran out of space, knew I had a lot of old junk files and thought I could do it the easy way. Now I am frustrated and annoyed.
Any suggestions? I am not that worried about my files. Most of it is on my one drive and pics are all backed up to other storage. There are a few craft files I might lose, but I can live with it. I just can’t afford to replace this darn thing right now.