If you are not able to recover from an image of your overwritten drive (this will need an external drive with more than double the free space than your laptop's hard drive) you need to save all your data on an external drive soon after recovery. You will not be able to recover your Windows installation, as this was overwritten by Ubuntu. The content of our USB is now listed, and can be browsed for deeper directories: We have to browse to the mountpoint of our external drive (here /media/23GB_USB but this will probably be /media/ubuntu/ #Ddrescue gui systemrescuecd windows# When we press C in the example above our above selected sktop, and the folder rsynctest will be copied to the external USB drive. To verify we had succeeded we can now open Nautilus in our live system and see the content of the rescued files. After we are done, do not forget to unmount the USB drive. If there are any dependencies issues, run: sudo apt-get -f installĪfter qphotorec installation, execute it, like so: qphotorec or search via the dash, for qphotorec Install like so: sudo dpkg -i qphotorec_1.0_all.deb Insert your Ubuntu CD/DVD/USB and boot from it Since no one provided a GUI alternatives for the terminal impaired Ubuntu users, here is a GUI for Testdisk. Select the drive you want to recover, and where you want to recover all the data too.QPhotorec is a 32bit application, if you have a 64bit Operating System, you need to install the 32bit libraries, to run QPhotorec: sudo apt-get install libc6:i386 libncurses5:i386 libstdc++6:i386 Pray to our Human Deity, and hope you get everything back.Īlso, let this be a lesson: ALWAYS BACKUP.
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