Need Help: Messed up my drive

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TheGuavaLegolas

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Ok here's the story: I have a PC with an ssd and a hard drive. The ssd has my Windows OS and everything, and the hard drive has a Hackintosh macOS Sierra on it. I decided to clone macOS to a partition on the ssd to get much faster speeds, but now I can't boot into windows. I followed instructions to install a Uefi boot loader onto the drive (clover) and I think this was the problem. I have tried to erase the partition using mac disk utility and formatting it as a Mac OS journaled extended, exfat, and ms-dos (fat). What my computer gives me when I try to boot is a black screen with a console like blinking line. I am looking for a way to not lose any files, but at worst I can lose the files but I need my Windows OS intact. Thanks for reading and please help. Perhaps there is a way to uninstall the boot loader?
 
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At this point it is anyone's guess what has been done to the drive.

Try switching computer back to legacy boot (so not UEFI) and see if it boots windows?

If not you can download a windows 10 OS using WIndows Media Creation Tool (can download from microsoft), then boot form usb and see if it even detects an installed Windows OS. If it does have it do a repair.

If that does not work then your OS is screwed up (or completely overwritten) and there is no recovering it.

Moral of the story, dont mess with your OS drive before backing it up first. Macrium Reflect is free and a 1tb hard drive is only $50.
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At this point it is anyone's guess what has been done to the drive.

Try switching computer back to legacy boot (so not UEFI) and see if it boots windows?

If not you can download a windows 10 OS using WIndows Media Creation Tool (can download from microsoft), then boot form usb and see if it even detects an installed Windows OS. If it does have it do a repair.

If that does not work then your OS is screwed up (or completely overwritten) and there is no recovering it.

Moral of the story, dont mess with your OS drive before backing it up first. Macrium Reflect is free and a 1tb hard drive is only $50.
 
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