I have described how to use the program step-by-step in another answer, in the Software Reccomendations community. Nevertheless, you could use it to recover the sane portions of the file system even if the damage is severe. It works with : DOS/Windows FAT12, FAT16 and. It is very useful in recovering lost partitions. Keep in mind that it currently comes with no GUI and it does not support NTFS compression. TestDisk checks the partition and boot sectors of your disks. The following is a comparison table considering four test cases with various kinds of damage, taken from my MSc thesis: RecuperaBit is free software and it rebuilds directory trees very precisely. There are several programs that claim to recover data from NTFS, however most of the good ones are commercial and Windows-only. You need a specialized software which thoroughly analyzes the disk and recovers intact portions of NTFS partitions, reconstructing the directory tree precisely.ĭisclaimer: I am the author of RecuperaBit. However, you cannot do that because your file system is corrupted. Normally, with a simply "lost" partition you could use testdisk and restore it pretty quickly.
Since you installed Ubuntu, I assume you could have overwritten the first 4-5 GB of space on your drive. This fact is extremely important, because the strategy you need to use depends on two factors: To be more precise, you want to recover the contents of the file system. However, depending on the amount of data that was overwritten, you can recover some (or many) of the files contained inside the partition. You cannot recover your partition, in the sense that there is no easy way you can get that partition as it was before your accidental formatting.
Is there any way I can recover my partition?
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