So I accidentally deleted both the main partition and the recovery partition the drive I keep all my program installers/music/movies on (tried using acronis) doesn't work with gpt/guid got suggested this app by a friend so spent 3 hours doing a deep scan, and it found all files still intact however it froze shortly after it started recovering the files, while searching the web I found a post from 2009 on these very forums about being able to undelete the partitions directly instead of wasting hours recovering the files. And i would love to explore this option, as I have no idea how to recreate the recovery partition outside deleting all partitions and trying to install windows after pulling the other drives out of the system.
Also since a partitioning forum seems like the perfect place to ask does the way a drive is partitioned effect it's performance I ask because I have both the evo 860/870 but the 870 appears to be much slower when its data sheet says it should be marginally faster (takes nearly 2 minutes to boot after fresh installation of win11 as a 2ndary instead of primary boot drive while the 860 with the EFI partition from its initial setup being a Windows 10 install boots in just 40 seconds even after being shoved in a completely different computer and having an upgrade/dirty installation of Windows 11 and filled to 80% of capacity other than the Efi the boot/recovery partitions also appear to be about 100mb larger.