And you may use DMDE to recover entire partitions located after 32 GB.
Lost Data while preparing USB Bootable Media
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i made a partition specifically for the bootable drive but still lost all my data.
i had 5 total partition and one of them is for the bootable disk. i installed it there to prevent overwritting, but still it over written everything.
someone please help me
Windows for home | Windows 10 | Windows update
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Igor Leyko 111K Reputation points Independent Advisor2022-10-01T20:16:41+00:00 Hi Michael,
My name is Igor, I have 12 Microsoft MVP awards. It's a pleasure for me to help others and I'll do all my best to help you. I'm sorry you have a problems.
Unfortunately, this is expected and announced behavior: Media Creation Tool removes all data from the USB drive.
You may use third party tools such as DMDE or Recuva to recover files from your drive. Unfortunately, there is no success warranty. Please note, recovered files should be restored to another drive.