Recovery help for formatted drive

[crazylogic]

Initially I had dual boot machine (Windows Vista and Windows 7), and I tried to install ubuntu 14.04 by replacing windows 7. While installing it prompted me if I need to install along with windows 7 or delete windows 7 and install ubuntu. I selected second option and proceed. After successful installation of ubuntu, it is showing entire hard disk as a single partition and the memory stats as "3.2 GB used 245 GB free" (my hard disk is of 250 GB), I got shocked. How can I recover the important data which I have in D,E,F,G drives of my hard disk?

 

[i7Baby]

I doubt you can recover data after you installed over it. I'd install each OS on a different physical drive next time.

Try MiniTools.

 

[Saga Lout]

There should also have been a third option "Something else" and that's what you choose then make the relevant choices later. The chances of recovery are pretty thin but might be able to get something back. Text files seem to disappear forever, photographs have a decent chance. Excel files are usually totally screwed but Word docs might have survived.

You need to slave the disk into a Windows machine to run the recovery software. Restoration2514 is usually a good one but finds nothing when this happens. Recuva has a fiighting chance and you find it at www.piriform.com.

 

[crazylogic]

Got my data on entire hard disk except some data on C drive. I ran ubuntu live CD and used testdisk, photorec utilities to get my data back

 

[stillblue]

Give the man a Kewpie doll. The only data you lost would have been where Ubuntu actually takes up space, the 3.2 GBs and windows was probably there so no big loss of data.