Rescue mode: Unable to find manjaro partition

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Hi,
I had a manjaro XFCE running system. Recently I installed Windows 10 on one the partition, i am this was not Manjaro installation that I used to install Windows.

After windows installation, I checked that I have manjaro deepin edition (2-3 years old version) iso file. So just gave it a try to rescue. I created live USB using manjaro deepin iso. It booted well. When I tried to find my manjaro installation partition, I could not.
It didn’t appear in fdisk -l or lsblk -f output.
Also sudo manjaro-chroot -a showing error.
Swap partition do appear, all other partitions are appearing, not Manjaro installation.
Manjaro was installed in legacy mode, and so is Windows.
Meanwhile I have downloaded XFCE version and will give it a try to rescue Tomorrow.

Please help me to rescue my system.

Regards

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Hello,

Unfortunately this doesn’t look good. Anyway you are not giving enough information to help you.

Please use the installation media and run this commands:

parted -l
efibootmgr -v
lsblk -f
inxi --admin --verbosity=7 --filter --no-host

Post the output of every command. Enclose every command output between these marks ``` like this:
```
Command output
```

To get something like this:

Command output
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    $ parted -l

Model: ATA HGST HTS545050A7 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 500GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags:

Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 1049kB 525MB 524MB primary ntfs boot
2 525MB 51.1GB 50.6GB primary ntfs
3 51.1GB 471GB 420GB primary ntfs
4 471GB 500GB 29.0GB extended
5 496GB 500GB 4302MB logical linux-swap(v1)

Model: Generic USB Flash Disk (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 8053MB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags:

Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 4194kB 8053MB 8049MB primary fat32 boot, lba

$ efibootmgr -v
EFI variables are not supported on this system.

$ lsblk -f

NAME FSTYPE LABEL UUID MOUNTPOINT
sda
├─sda1 ntfs System Reserved 8624834E24833FE3
├─sda2 ntfs BC34DAB134DA6E40
├─sda3 ntfs F8CCF6E0CCF69858
├─sda4
└─sda5 swap 8f4d2e72-3eec-4187-b772-1b3651788344 [SWAP]
sdb
└─sdb1 vfat MYLINUXLIVE AEE5-E395 /bootmnt
sr0
loop0 squashfs
loop1 squashfs
loop2 squashfs
loop3 squashfs

 inxi --admin --verbosity=7 --filter --no-host

/usr/bin/inxi: illegal option – -
Error 7: One of the options you entered in your script parameters: --admin
is not supported.The option may require extra arguments to work.
For supported options (and their arguments), check the help menu: inxi -h

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Was Manjaro installed on a logical partition inside of the extended partition? It look like it was the first logical partition in the extended partition betwee ~471 GB and 496 GB, so 25 GB large, right?

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It looks really like Windows has overwritten the manjaro installation somehow. If Windows is needed, it is always recommend to install it first and then a linux distro, or install it in another drive and unplug the the linux one. Windows love the behavior to be the only one in the cave. :smiley:

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@Wollie probably you are right.

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I guess the partition data is still there but you lost partition table information, no idea how to restore that… :thinking:

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