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So, I installed Ubuntu and it wiped my hard drive... can I get it back?
SO.
I had a partitioned hard drive on Windows Vista, and you know how Vista sucks... anyway, 2 years and over 200gb later, I decided to install Ubuntu to fix the problem.
And I selected an option that wiped the hard drive (I don't have a back up), and now the 250gb drive is in ext4 format.
Is there any way to undo, or undelete what just happened? I'm not looking to recover a couple .png files, but the whole hard drive.. because I know that when things are deleted, only the reference is deleted--technically the data is still there.
But now the drive is in ext4 format (as opposed to ntfs that it was on Windows, I believe..), and everything appears to be gone..
CAN I UNDELETE MY LIFE BACK???
2 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
You will need to recover the data using something like asoftech data recovery.
I've had to use it many times in the past but it will require that you plug that drive into another system as an external drive and run the software from there. It will rebuild the drive and hopefully recover the files.
Good luck.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
When you *delete files* (in Windows), only one byte is changed. When you format the partition (it was formatted as an ext4 partition), EVERYTHING IS OVERWRITTEN. Is it possible to recover the old data? Do you earn a few hundred pounds of hundred dollar bills a week? The starting price for a job like that is in the 5 digits - with no guarantee. It involves a Clean Room, a scanning electron microscope and a team that knows what to do. So practically speaking, no, you can't get your data back.