Lesson to be learned: Backup before showing off. =)
I used a program years ago (can't remember the name now), but it was on an
existing NTFS partition. I am not sure how well any program will work on a
partition formatted as something else. I searched for open source data
recovery, and found http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk. Worth a try. If
it doesn't work how the disk is partitioned now, consider changing the
partition type back to NTFS, and try it again.
Good luck. Go spend some serious money on your grandson to reclaim your hero
status!
Jeremiah E. Bess
Network Ninja, Penguin Geek, Father of four
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 09:04, Elon G. ("Matt") Matthews <[email protected]
> wrote:
> In the process of showing off to my grandson I was installing Ubuntu
> on his laptop and repartitioned his hard drive, as I have done several
> times before. However, this time I had either a finger check or a
> brain cramp and (using gparted) deleted his Windows 7 ntfs partition
> where all of his personal files are located. I am not a hero any
> more! Since the partition has not been accessed since the deletion I
> have to believe that the original information is still there. Can
> anyone recommend a utility that might recover the partition at least
> to the point where I can retrieve the personal files? In order of
> importance I need a utility that: 1. recovers the files, 2. runs as a
> bootable standalone utility or under Ubuntu, 3. is free or of minimal
> cost, 4. makes me a hero.
>
>
> Any and all help or suggestions will be deeply appreciated.
>
> Matt
>
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