i just installed LINUX in my laptop.i had window 7 , i replace UBUNTU with window 7. the drives data(D:, E:) in window is not showing in LINUX. how to recover my drives data. i didn't use LINUX yet. how to get my data back.in this(LINUX) it shows 490 GB free. my Hard disk is 500 GB.how to get back my 150 GB data now. Please describe me the way to get all the deleted data.please help me.i need your suggestion.thanks a lot for helping me.
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I have a Toshiba satellite A-200 laptop with a Vista OS on it with 4 NTFS partitions  (C:) Vista  (D:) Entertainment  (E:) Work  (F:) Sources   and I wanted to start using Ubuntu instead. So I tried it first from the live CD and everything was OK and all the partitions were shown and working and so I decided to install Ubuntu to replace Vista on the (C:) drive. After I did that I can no longer find my folders and files on the (D:), (E:), (F:) partitions and the only file system that is shown is one 198 GB although my HDD is 320 GB.  I can't access the lost data on the remaining 120 GB which I hope is still there and not totally lost  I am now working from the live CD but I am unable to install testdisk. Can I recover the Vista partitions by the product recovery CD to get my laptop back to the factory settings? Can I recover the NTFS partitions using a recovery program for Windows or will that make the problem worse?   I need these data badly as I don't have a backup for them.
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My Portable harddisk was working fine. I once accessed it from a linux terminal. Later when I tried to use it in window it said You need to format it before you can access  In Ubuntu also when I plug it, it does not appear.  I tried running chkdisk but Windows says Raw file system could not be processed.  Is there any way I can get back the disk data?  Recovery software does not preserve folder when it recovers data. Also When I tried it it says "1 days remaining to process" nearly 350GB data.
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I have a small issue. I was having some issues in getting some libraries to work and to resolve it, i deleted some shared libraries by mistake(sudo ...).Now ubuntu fails to boot up but i can access the files from recovery mode. I can see my home folder intact but i cannot even run sudo nautilus as it says it shared libraries not found. The data in my home folder is quite important and i want retrieving it is important. I am running a windows dual boot, if it helps. If anyone could help copy the home folder to a windows drive from the terminal itself(as i can access it at recovery mode) it would be of immense help. Thanks.:-)
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I have one hard drive. It's partitioned into 4 partitions, one of them is encrypted by Windows 7 Bitlocker, then I used Acronis Disk Director to merge both partitions during the process PC power off now the encrypted partition and when I try to enter the partition I have a message to format it, the other partition seems to contain 20 MB but when I open it I found nothing.  all data in this partition is so important to me , so please if anyone can help me recover my data I will be thankful
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After moving to SSD I deleted the System Partition (100MB) from my previous drive, causing mass destruction.  I tried to delete the System Partition which windows 7 creates (on my previous disc as I moved to SSD) and when I tried to extend the main partition size to include the new Unallocated Space it asked me if I wanted to convert the disc to Dynamic.  I simply pressed yes and the partition simply disappeared into unallocated space. All of my family pictures / videos lost.  After reading an article on Microsoft they said to recreate the partition with the same exact size, so I tried to do that but it didn't work. I did not format the drive at all when I created partitions.  How can I possibly recover the partitions?  Thanks!
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I deleted lots of files &amp; folders on my laptop and then I put a new files in the same folders. I need to recover the deleted files. I tried a lot of recovery software and I couldn't recover my old files.   I read that if you refill the folders with new files after deleting old ones then I can't recover them again. Is that true?   What should I do?
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So, I have a friend who has a flash drive that was playing music on a dvd player. Everything was great then all of a sudden it just stopped. First, I tried to do some data recovery on it but the software i use couldn't find the USB. The usb was sending us the usual error not formatted messages.  I then did a quick format of it and now it only shows 4 megabytes of space. I tried using Disk manager, then DISKPART, but nothing i have tried works.  Disk Managment looks like this:    As you can see it doesn't even show the unallocated space. It doesn't look like it is anything but a 4 mega byte flash drive.  Is it still possible to, at the very least, resurrect the USB?
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I installed Ubuntu on my laptop and something happened and my Windows 7 bootloader is missing. I can boot only Ubuntu. So, I tried to do something like suggested here  or , but when I see system recovery option there is no Windows 7 option.
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I have a 500 GB HDD in my laptop, but when I add up the partitions, they take up 465GB, and there are no unallocated spaces anywhere. Where did that 35GB go?  This is what my HDD looks like in the Windows partition manager:    As you can see, the space used is 0.6 + 0.3 + 409.19 + 37.25 + 2.79 + 15.53 = 465.66GB. On the left, Windows does indeed report the size of the drive as being 465 GB, but I know for a fact that this is a 500GB HDD, unless Newegg, Ebay and Amazon all made mistakes. Can someone please help me get back the 35GB I'm entitled to?   Note: I do know that the HDD has 7 partitions, even if only 6 are shown. The one that you can't see is Microsoft Reserved, and is very small, so that's not what is missing.
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Is there a possible way to recover data on my Western Digital 2TB drive?  I have tried different ways like using gparted and fdisk etc.. but nothing helped. The error I get is that it cannot find a partition table. I can create one but then it will remove all data on the disk which is not what I want.  See printscreen what gparted says.    Any solution?   I thank you.
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i started installing ubuntu and took out windows 10 completely during the installation.. but after the installation, when i checked my disk partitions  927gb on linux filesystem 3 gb on linux swap 512 mb on efi  but my hard disk size is 1tb (1024gb so now rest 94 gb is missing  can anyone help me out. i tried if the windows 10 is still existing on the disk, but i didnt get any method  and while booting the system i get a message on the top left corner  /dev/sda2: clean,223062/60760064 files, 5079494/243030464 blocks ... so does this mean.
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Windows allows the  of certain files or folders. I currently have a Windows folder that is set to "encrypt contents to secure data". (The Windows partition is NTFS.)  If I mount this drive under Linux, is there anyway to decrypt the contents of the directory so that I can read the files without having to reboot into Windows?
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Recently, I accidentally deleted a partition off of my external hard disk. I had a copy of Minitool Power Data Recovery left over when the same drive had become RAW about a year ago. When I selected lost partition recovery, it immediately identified my deleted partition and allowed me to access and recover the files that were there.  My question is this. Is there any way to change the deleted partition back to NTFS without having to have a drive that you need to recover the files to and then move them back after formatting, as I don’t have any space left on either the computer or on my other external hard drive, so that I don’t need to buy a new one. The files on the disk were really important.  I am using Windows 7 Home Premium.  I appreciate any help in solving this crisis.
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I want to reinstall Ubuntu keeping my data intact. I have 160 GB hardrive (sata or pata I don't know but it's slim and made in China) with a 40 GB ext3 partition, a 4GB swap memory and 3 other partition with a FAT32 file system. I have around 4GB space on my drive where Linux is installed.  I'd like to keep the data intact, especially the Downloads folder, desktop, and /var/www; And I no longer have access to any other machines or external storage devices.
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I've been wondering this for a while, why is there free space at the end of a drive that was formatted to NTFS in windows?  You can only see the unallocated space in Linux. So why is it there? Does it serve a purpose?
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I have 4 drives in Windows: C:, D:, E: and F:. Except C:, all of them are empty.    Suddenly it shows up to 2 GB space used – even when there are no files.     [  When I format the drives, it's fine for a while until it shows used space again.  I use Windows 8.1 Pro 64 Bit.
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I'm a new Linux user. I've reinstalled my Wubi from scratch at least ten times the last few weeks because while getting the system up and running (drivers, , etc.) I've broken something (X, grub, unknowns) and I can't get it back to work. Especially for a newbie like me, it's easier (and much faster) to just reinstall the whole shebang than try to troubleshoot several layers of failed &quot;fixing&quot; attempts. Coming from Windows, I expect that there is some &quot;disk image&quot; utility that I can run to make a snapshot of my Linux install (and of the boot partition!!) before I meddle with stuff. Then, after I've foobar'ed my machine, I would somehow restore my machine back to that working snapshot. What's the Linux equivalent of Windows disk imagers like  or ?  Note: I found a similar question: