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While installing Ubuntu 13.04 I selected Replace Windows 7 with Ubuntu.

Apparently by doing so I have lost all my data that is stored in local disk:D. Is there any way that I can recover my lost data?

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    Please edit your question to include more details of your hard drives and what you selected during installation. If your D drive is a second hard drive, it may still be there and you just need to know where to find it. – ImaginaryRobots Sep 11 '13 at 16:12

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You can recover your data from formatted disk using testdisk and photorec, these are good open source software that is used by thousands of user when such case arrived in Linux type system.

Here are your steps how can you restore your datas:

  • Boot from live CD/DVD/USB or Ubuntu, if it is opening fine..

  • Install testdisk:

      sudo apt-get install testdisk

  • Run testdisk to fix your partition.

  • If testdisk fails then you can give a try to another s/w photorec. Find out here How to use Photorec step by step

If you had valuable data then you can give a try to this.. I recommend to use PhotoRec.

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