How to recover deleted files

[Aaron]

On 18/04/10 13:17, Vijay Shanker Dubey wrote:
> Hi
>
> My laptop has two os. one is windows vista. and other is Ubuntu. I am 
> currently on ubuntu system, this is my primary OS.
>
> There are 4 partitions of my hard disk
>
>  1. Windows OS
>  2. Linux(Ubuntu OS)
>  3. Data
>
> Now the problem part. The data partition is NTFS. I have mounted this 
> partition on the location `/media/windrive-a` under ubuntu OS.
>
> A little while back i decided to delete the mounting of the data 
> partition and i fired command `rm -r /media/windrive-a/`. To give me a 
> shock; all my data on data drive is gone.
>
> Now, I know this is not the command to remove mounted partition. But I 
> have committed the wrong. Is there any way i can get my data back. 
> These are very important data for me.
>
> Please suggest.
> Regards,
> Vijay Shanker Dubey
>
I would recommend the following link:

http://man.linux-ntfs.org/ntfsundelete.8.html

To use it you will need to install 'ntfsprogs'. Due to the nature of 
deleting files it may not be possible to recover them, but it may be 
worth a try. I personally have never used this tool.