Boot Repair Ate My Files

Hey Peeps, Murphy;s back. I have a BIG problem, so I am hoping against hope that someone can provide a miracle, or at least help. Ok, I\ll cut to the chase. I moved, which necessitated getting a new ISP. The minute I plugged my desktop in I started having problems. So I thought I'd better protect my laptop, although I don't use it much at home. But of course, now I had to since my desktop was behaving badly. My laptop is a multiboot, with Win 10 #1, Win 7, and Win 10 #2, with Win 10 #1 being my main one, with 551 GB. So I put Zonealarm on my 2 Win 10's. Well, I didn't like it any better than I did years ago when I tried it, so I turned off the internet and using Hibit I uninstalled it from Win 10#1. It didn't seem like it uninstalled quite normally, so I booted into Win 10 #2, turned the internet on, and using Hibit again, I uninstalled it. All seemed to go smoothly. So I rebooted. With Win 10#1 being my default; it didn't boot. I don't remember the error message, but I think it was unaccessable boot device, or perhaps bad system config - one of the two. So I rebooted into Win 10 #2. No problem. I then booted into Win 7. Again no problem. I wasn't too worried, since I'd fixed many such problems in the past Not this time. I tried everything, and more. No dice. So I plugged in an Aomei boot stick I had laying around. It showed all 3 partitions had "irregular boot" situation. So, whether I should have or not, I ticked all 3 partitions and clicked repair. After a time it said that the job was completed. So I shut down, removed the boot stick, and started again. Win 10 #1 didn't boot, just as before. So I tried Win 10#2 and Win 7. Both booted seemingly ok. So, while in Win 10#2 I went to file explorer and lo and behold Win 10#1 was empty, except a few files/folders. To say I was fit to be tied is the understatement of the year. I tried a few things, then for the first time Testdisk failed me. So that is where I am now. I am looking for a program that can restore with a tree structure and more or less correct file names. Yeah, I know everyone will tell me about backups; I have 6 or so external drives, all full. And where I live it is not always possible to buy the HDD's I need, internal or external. Plus I am old on a fixed income with 2 kids in school, so most of my money goes to food, utilities, tuition, etc. I did manage to find an old HDD that I made room on and cloned the bad HDD in its present state. I know some will ask, so I have a Dell Latitude e6530. So, working with the clone, I tried and tried, using about every program I could find, but none worked; all they find are the few files/folders that Aomei put on after they erased it. I'm not quite ready to give up yet, but I am getting close. I always see ‘’buy a geek a coffee’’ on your site. Well, if you can help me, I’ll buy several coffees, and donuts as well. Thank you for your time and patience. And if I posted this in the wrong place, tell me and I will do my best to correct my error. Thanks again, and have a good day all.

 

Yeah booting 3 OSes is an ""irregular boot" situation" that you probably should not of fixed. Try booting into your primary Windows 10 installation and use a dedicated tool like EasyBCD or the native Windows command-line tool bcdedit to repair or rebuild the menu paths safely.
On the "empty" partition are the folders Users, Program Files, and Windows still there?

 

Thank you for your response foogoo. I almost always have 3 OSes that boot on my computers... I did try some of those command-line tools and Easy BCD, with no luck. But I did quit too soon probably. I never had one that I couldn't repair before. I think perhaps my biggest mistake was to leave all 3 OSes marked for repair on Aomei (probably shouldn't have even tried it, but I was frustrated), I could just have checked the one OS. Anyway, too late for that thought. I'm not very good at this, but I'll try to upload a pic of what is left on that partition.