Did I just write over my C Drive

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Hi. I am totally new to this but I was trying to install Manjaro on an external hdd connected via usb. Now I fear I just installed over my C Drive. I can not boot into windows.I dont know where to go from here. Any help is appreciated. I did google the issue and found this thread…

t/windows-wont-boot-after-installing-manjaro/26987

So I did this in terminal…

sudo parted -l

and this is the result…

Model: Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 2TB (nvme)
Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 2000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags: 

Number  Start   End     Size    File system  Name  Flags
 1      1049kB  556MB   555MB   ntfs               hidden, diag
 2      556MB   661MB   105MB   fat32              boot, esp
 3      661MB   677MB   16.8MB                     msftres
 4      677MB   234GB   234GB   ext4
 5      234GB   2000GB  1766GB  ext4

Model: Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 2TB (nvme)
Disk /dev/nvme1n1: 2000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags: 

Number  Start   End     Size    File system  Name                          Flags
 1      17.4kB  16.8MB  16.8MB               Microsoft reserved partition  msftres
 2      16.8MB  2000GB  2000GB  ntfs         Basic data partition          msftdata
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As you intend to recover your Windoze install, best support has to be expected in a Windoze forum?

Your output not even clarifies where your Windoze was installed, I guess /dev/nvme0n1. When you wish help here, you should at least spend some time in thinking about what type of information might be required to help you. :wink: If Windoze was on /dev/nvme0n1 - nevertheless, I can tell you it’s gone.

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To answer your (topic) question: no, you did not write to any drive at all.
That command reads and lists the partition layout on all block devices.

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