I had accidentally installed Ubuntu 13.04 on Windows 8 while trying to Dual Boot. I had a single partition(973GB) which had windows with NTFS filesystem. But by the accidental install of ubuntu the filesystem had changed to ext4.
When I tried testdisk, it showed me three partitions:
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P EFI System (with very less data)
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P MS DATA (the large disk of around 950GB. I think this partition has all the data)
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P Linux Swap (same size as my ram)
Now when I tried searching, it showed that the partition MS Data cannot be recovered. I dont need the partition or the windows 8 back. I only need some of my important files that got deleted. Can I recover these files? Please help.
Best Answer
You can still recover them by using
photorec
which comes withtestdisk
after you install it. Type in a terminalphotorec
and select the hard drive / partition you wish to analyze and the place where you want to store all recovered files (Should be a place not on the same hard drive you are trying to recover from).Your same case has also happened to me. Trying to recover files from a previous NTFS or FAT32 partition that was formatted to Ext3 or Ext4. In the end it recovered all files we needed.