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Unfortunately i did replace windows7 with ubuntu os . my hard drive is formatted please help me any one to recovery my files

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  • See http://askubuntu.com/questions/286181/how-do-i-recover-my-accidentally-lost-windows-partitions-after-installing-ubuntu – Rinzwind May 05 '14 at 08:34

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This is almost impossible. The hard disk has a new FS (Linux's ext4) and the data has probably been overwritten by Ubuntu's data.

If it's really important data you should shut down the computer ASAP as every time you write data the chance on recovery decreases.

You could try a few recovery tools (try them while using Ubuntu live on a USB drive to prevent writing to the disk) but I don't think they'll work because you're using a different FS now.

Your best bet would be to bring the hard disk to a data recocery company but this can be really expensive.

So next time be careful what you're doing when partitioning and always make backups.

Louis Matthijssen
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