@Leech i don't trust windows to read ext4 partitions. And your story proved it ...

Still i'm glad you recovered everything this way, congratz 🙂

Never mind it was an issue with the hdmi cable being dirty oops

Make sure you start the pad by pressing R + START.

Mine take several minutes for the connection to be established; if the blue led turns off, start the pad again (same thing if the pad connects only within seconds: it's probably a bad sign =))

Are you using a pi3 without a bt dongle ? We don't support the pi3 bt yet