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I installed Ubuntu on my PC and by accident it formatted my whole hard drive. I can pick the hard drive up with Windows and everything but its basically formatted. Is there a way I can restore it using Ubuntu?

Zanna
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Wihan Griesel
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I recommend you use Testdisk for this purpose. https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Step_By_Step

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhWbSM-630E

I am a real beginner in this topic. Once I lost my partitions while playing with windows diskpart and Testdisk helped me out.

I recommend you to boot your PC with a USB stick. As far as I know this prevents data loss, because your OS might be writing on the Disk and by doing so, overwrite some data.

Zanna
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AlexOnLinux
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  • Assuming the beginning of the partition has been overwritten testdisk may not work (but it is still a good first thing to try, in case the old partition layout was different and you haven't overwritten the start of the important one). In this case photorec (by the same developer) will be able to recover some files but not all. – thomasrutter Jan 10 '18 at 23:00