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today i installed ubuntu 14.04LTS on windows 7 then in ubuntu , win 7 partition didnt appear. it shows whole drive 3.1gb used and 147. gb free how to recover win 7 partition and uninstall ubuntu and win 7 back

user309719
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If you selected "Replace Windows 7" when installing Ubuntu, there unfortunatly is no way to recover your Windows 7 partition, because it has been formated and overwritten by Ubuntu.

jnuk
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  • i dint select Replace Windows 7 – user309719 Jul 27 '14 at 18:06
  • Did you install Ubuntu using a Live CD or using wubi while running windows? Try installing gparted in Ubuntu and check what partitions are on your hard drive – jnuk Jul 27 '14 at 18:08
  • thanx for ur reply my com had 3 drives c, d and e in drive d and e is data deleted or not? – user309719 Jul 27 '14 at 18:09
  • i installed ubuntu using live usb – user309719 Jul 27 '14 at 18:10
  • Do you have multiple hard drives or just one with three partitions? Could you post a screenshot of gparted? – jnuk Jul 27 '14 at 18:14
  • i have one hard drive with 3 partitions i cant download gparted because of slow net . what is size of gparted? – user309719 Jul 27 '14 at 18:19
  • gparted itself is about 512kB, but there might be dependencies that also need to be downloaded – jnuk Jul 27 '14 at 18:24
  • i saw gparted size on sourceforge its 200mb not possible for download now may be tomorrow any other option or how to recover data on drive d and e sorry for late reply i m using it from mobile – user309719 Jul 27 '14 at 18:37
  • What you saw on sourceforge was a bootable live iso image with gparted installed. But you don't need to download the whole iso, just the program itself since you already have the operating system. Just open a terminal and type in sudo apt-get install gparted and it will install only the program and the needed dependencies, which shouldn't be more than 5MB – jnuk Jul 27 '14 at 18:42
  • i did this but it says reading package lists ... done reading state information...done E: unable to locate package gparted – user309719 Jul 27 '14 at 18:59
  • Try sudo apt-get update and then running sudo apt-get install gparted again. – jnuk Jul 27 '14 at 19:03
  • it taking too much time should i downld gparted-0.19.1.tar.bz2 file on sourcefroge – user309719 Jul 27 '14 at 19:13
  • You could try that, or just use the live usb stick you already have, its preinstalled there. – jnuk Jul 27 '14 at 19:15
  • this is 2mb file download complete. how to installed this file? – user309719 Jul 27 '14 at 19:24
  • tar xvf gparted-0.19.1.tar.bz2 to extract it. Then cd gparted-0.19.1. This way, you need to build it for yourself. ./configure, make and make install should compile gparted. Then run it with sudo gparted – jnuk Jul 27 '14 at 19:32
  • i didnt understand what u say bu i did this open with archive manager then it becomes 10.8 mb file then i extract and in extractes folder click on INSTALL with green icon then new windoe appear then save current file and then type in terminal sudo apt-get install gparted
    the it shows gparted is already the newest version     – user309719 Jul 27 '14 at 19:49
  • Fine, so it was already installed :D please launch it using sudo gparted or by searching for it in unity. Then, take a screenshot of the window when it's done loading and upload it to imgur.com. Then post the link as a comment. – jnuk Jul 27 '14 at 19:52
  • screenshot http://imgur.com/YAhnHLO – user309719 Jul 27 '14 at 20:04
  • I have some bad news for you: your windows partition isn't there anymore and has been overwritten by Ubuntu. And, as I said in my answer, there is no way to recover it. Sorry :( – jnuk Jul 27 '14 at 20:10
  • had i lost data while it on drive D and E in windows 7 – user309719 Jul 27 '14 at 20:13
  • As gparted tells you, there are only 2 partitions on your hard drive: one ext4 which is for the Ubuntu filesystem and one swap partition which is for Ubuntus memory. There are no other f.e. NTFS or FAT32 partitions on the drive and because you said you only have one hard drive, yes, you lost all data on C, D, and E. Again, sorry for that :( – jnuk Jul 27 '14 at 20:17
  • thank you for ur help. i saw testdisk cant it recover? – user309719 Jul 27 '14 at 20:25
  • No. If you format a partition (or a drive), data can't be recovered. You could search for a local hard drive recovery professional, he might be able to recover at least parts of the data. – jnuk Jul 27 '14 at 20:32
  • after installing ubuntu i tried to install windows 7 from live use and in booting

    this appeared

                    windows boot manager

    Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the case.to fix the problem:

    If you do not have this disc, contact your administrator or computer manufacture for assistance.

    File: \Boot\BCD Status:Oxc0000098

    Info :The windows boot configuration data does not contain a valid OS entry.

    screenshot link http://imgur.com/ikuiiKF

    how to install windows 7

     – user309719 Jul 29 '14 at 18:08