NTFS filesystem recovery

[steve reilly]

Shashikant Joshi wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> I had Windows Vista and NTFS file system. Now I have installed the 
> UBUNTU 9.10 but unknowingly i have selected "erase hard disk and format 
> ext filesystem" option.
>  
> Please let me know how i can recover my data which was in NTFS filesystem.
>  
> Any link to software/utility would be highly appreciated.
>  
> Thanks,
> Shashikant
> 
> 

stop using the drive immediately if you can, otherwise your overwriting 
whatever your trying to recover.  remove the drive and mount on another 
system and try using photorec or testdisk to recover whatever it is your 
looking for.  chances are most of it is still there, just gonna take 
some digging to find it.

more info here  https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DataRecovery


steve