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Can I retrieve work wiped by the Media Creation Tool?

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I just downloaded the media creation tool after 3 failed attempts of trying to install windows 10 (I can't access the internet with windows 10).
It asked for 3GB of free data but my USB stick for uni is a 16GB stick and it had about 11GB free.
I didn't know it would wipe my data..

Any idea where I can find my uni work that was on my thumbstick? :/
 

charlatan1978

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Hi, you are not going to be able to retrieve it.
The Media Creation Tool would have formatted the USB stick in the process of setting it up.
 

orlbuckeye

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I had the same thing happen to me. I just recopied the files as I had backups of them.