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I recently installed Ubuntu. Unfortunately during the process all the partitions have been erased which contained my backup data. Is there any way of recovering the data? It was almost 400 GB of data.

Bart
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Johnson Stanley David Makumbo
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You can give a try. You will need:

  1. Live CD (USB drive) with Ubuntu (for simplicity I will call it Live CD)
  2. External HDD to backup recovered data (I will call it ExtHDD)
  3. A lot of luck

The steps:

  1. Boot from the Live CD, and connect to your network (the HDD which will be recovered I will call it /dev/sda)
  2. Plug in the ExtHDD (aka /dev/sdb), and mount it
  3. Install testdisk (sudo apt-get install testdisk), and follow the instructions described here.
Frantique
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