[SOLVED]Windows10 Anniversary nuked my linux partition table

[Hammerhead_Corvette]

Boot-repair has options for backing up partition tables and clonezilla is great for making image backups of those partitions/drives in their entirety.

A LUKS encrypted Volume ? I will definitely give that a try then, since overwriting more than the drive header usually spells doom...

[skrappjaw]

I font know about luks encryption. Do your trades rich first. I don't mess with encrypted volumes at this time.

[gesof]

Step One - Find the partition.

Gparted will show your lost partition as unallocated space. In my case this was an extended volume with 2 logical partitions inside. Windows for whatever reason deleted the table for my ext4 logical volume but left the swap alone. You can use gparted to just create a “new” ext4 in place of the old. This only writes tables not data. So once you have that the data should show up.

I face the exact same problem…
Could you please describe in detail how you did this? i am afraid i will delete my data, or i make my distro unable to ever boot again…
What do you mean create a new partition, in the place of the old? Could you explain this process a bit more? I also use elementaryos, and below is the output of what gparted shows in my pc, when i booot with a live cd

[skrappjaw]

Man, been so long. So much trial and error. From what I remember you should just create an ext4 partition in the unallocated space where your 68.85gb partition used to be. I since stopped putting windows and linux on the same drives. Hope you figure(d) it out. Sorry it took so long to get back with you.

Just don’t delete the extended partition that contains your swap partition. Bad idea.