How to recover data in Ubuntu saved as windows partition?

Asked Jan 21 '17 at 10:53

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I am a novice at Ubuntu. I had windows 10 installed in my laptop with 500gb of space which had 4 partitions. I tried Ubuntu 16.4 from Live CD but when I tried restarting the system I could not boot windows as it says “windLoad.exe is missing”. Plus reinstalling the windows shows only partition now which it says cannot be used to installing windows. How can I recover my data from the HD. Please suggest as data is critical.

My current partition layout: output of vgdisplay:

edited Jan 21 '17 at 11:57

asked Jan 21 '17 at 10:53

yuvraj

Did you install over the whole hard disk or just dualboot? – Jan 21 '17 at 11:05
No i didnt install, I was trying it with live USB. Please let me know for any info to dig deeper into the issue. thanks in advance. – yuvraj Jan 21 '17 at 11:08
if you didn't uninstall Windows, something removed your windload.exe file. Are you sure this was Ubuntu's fault? – Jan 21 '17 at 11:09
Yes, specifically while using live USB, i tried installing ubuntu but on checking the disk status, i cancelled the installation. And when I restarted my machine. I faced this issue. – yuvraj Jan 21 '17 at 11:11
What do you mean exactly by checking the disk status? – Jan 21 '17 at 11:12
Means the part where I need to select a partition for installation. On that step, I canceled the installation. – yuvraj Jan 21 '17 at 11:13
Let us continue this discussion in chat. – yuvraj Jan 21 '17 at 11:14
added the snapshot of sudo vgdisplay. – yuvraj Jan 21 '17 at 11:50
@DavidFoerster based on chat, not a dupe – Jan 21 '17 at 11:55
Thanks guys for helping with this. Just for the information, even after deleting the partitions, i tried using testDisk and yes i am able to get back atleast some of my useful stuff back. – yuvraj Jan 21 '17 at 14:15
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Possible duplicate of Recovering broken or deleted NTFS partitions – Andrea Lazzarotto Jan 21 '17 at 16:53

How to recover data in Ubuntu saved as windows partition?

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