For my Laptop HDD, 500GB Samsung,
this hdd had gone exteremly slow...
So i was trying out installation of fresh Win7 & Ubuntu...
In this process mistakenly i formatted the HDD and delelted the partition...
There was some important data on the HDD partition..
Is there anyway i can recover some of the important data ? any software which can recover it from RAW?
first, the warnings : DONOT USE THE HARD DISK. you may need lots of storage space. always work with a backup which is in a safe place.
clone entire hard drive (it'll make an image file, iso or something), make a copy of it for backup, and work with the 2nd one.
mount it in a virtual drive, and use a recovery software like recuva, photorec or something.
you'll need some linux knowledge, or use a virtual OS, if you're so inclined.
also, USE A PORTABLE OS, like a linux live cd/usb. try to connect the harddrive externally via usb.
more reading :
Data Recovery in Linux, Part-1 - Open Source For You
TestDisk - CGSecurity
I'd recommend testdisk, it managed to partially recover files from a portable drive with bad sectors.
tonight .. i will try to connect this HDD to my Desktop (which is having Win7) as a secondary HDD and try to recovery the Data ..
hope so the desktop detects the HDD ...!!
Instead of ubuntu.
Connect hard drive with another workable windows computer.
And Try to recover with Active file recovery
Once I formated whole drive while installing ubuntu.
i'd advise NOT USING windows to do any kind of recovery, since it auto-mounts disks, and that may seriously **** up whats left of your data.
