how to recover the lost Data and Windows 10 after installing Ubuntu Desktop 14.10
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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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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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After I ran Windows 10 update this afternoon my partition table broke... I had dual boot with Windows 10 and Ubuntu 14 with Grub as the boot loader. The error that came up was "Error no such partition, Entering rescue mode... grub rescue>". I googled it,  about the boot-repair ISO, installed it on a USB, ran the repair, got this report, but still no luck:    Now the boot skips Grub entirely and goes to Windows boot manager which fails with "The boot configuration data for your PC is missing or contains errors". So now instead of dual boot I have zero boot. Thanks Microsoft.  Anyway can you guys help me interpret the disk info in the pastebin link? I don't remember my partition configuration but I believe Ubunut had slightlty less disk space than Windows. Questions I have:   Is the Ubuntu partition still there? Could it be the one named "Extended"? (sda4) Where would GRUB be? Gone? Can it be reinstalled? how?   I don't really care about the Windows partition anymore, but it would be nice to rescue Ubuntu.
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I have upgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 10 and I miss the Desktop Gadgets from Windows 7. What happened to them and can I bring them back?
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I know that a fresh Ubuntu install can wipe Windows files completely.   But I've heard that Windows writes random hidden data everywhere without your permission. Can there be remains of Windows after a clean install of Ubuntu that can be potentially used by malicious software against your data or passwords?  I had a nasty malware attack recently and left Windows for good, but the software service installed Windows again. So will a fresh Ubuntu install by me over Windows wipe it for good?
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I had 500GB portable hard drive. it fell from the table and when i joined it was not showing any data and asked me to format it. i did format. Then again it was not functioning properly so i had to quick format it again.  Now i had lots of data in it. Is there any software which can recover my files and folders with same structure as original
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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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I am about to sell my old desktop PC and I am cautious about some of my sensitive information being available to the purchaser, even after reformatting the hard-drive, using data recovery software.  How can I securely wipe the hard drive so that the data on it cannot be recovered?  Although I specifically want help with my Windows PC, it wouldn't hurt if there were suggestions for Macs as well.
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A friend's Vista-based computer won't boot, so I am just going to format and reinstall.    The problem is that she never kept her product key for Vista.    Is there any way to recover that key from her hard drive (which is currently plugged into my computer as a secondary) without booting from it?
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I accidentally removed some files on a NTFS partition  How can I recover them staying inside Linux without rebooting ?
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I accidentally deleted the initrd image on my system.  How do I restore it?
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Is there a way to read ext4 partitions from Windows? If so, what can I do?
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I had to immediate shut down, and I lost about 20 unsaved tabs, is there any way to recover these?
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I have already had the same problem before. On that occasion, I found a program that could scan my entire hard drive for string pieces so I could recover it. Unfortunately I don't remember the name of the program. It had to access the hard drive data directly, normal searches won't get any data from the hard drive before formatting.
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I have Ubuntu 12.10 and was using guest account. I downloaded some files on desktop and shutdown my m/c after use. Now today when I logged in to guest account to copy those files but surprisingly those files were gone and desktop was clear. I guess ubuntu deletes all files from guest account on shutdown.   Can you please guide me to recover those lost files.  Thanks
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I was experiencing problems with Ubuntu Desktop like missing and broken system packages, missing Unity package and other problems. So I decided that the best solution (without touching Windows files) is just to reinstall Ubuntu.  I looked everywhere and found the way but got confused as some say that I supposed to choose "Erase Ubuntu and reinstall", others say that I supposed to choose "Something else" and just select it manually while installation. I thought the first option would be better and just safer as I don’t want any of Windows files to be touched but it says that it has a bug that erases all other partitions...   Current Ubuntu version: 17.04 desktop 32bit will be replaced with 16.04.0 desktop 32bit (as 32bit 17.04 version is no longer available)   What’s the safer option to choose? And if the second one is, how to make sure it’s Ubuntu partition?
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Help I want to remove my partitions everything apart from my windows 7 how can I do this ?