Ubuntu killed Windows?

Question

Windows

There were 3 partitions on the hard drive - the first was win7, the second was xp, and the third had a bunch of personal files. I installed ubuntu 10.10 in multiboot mode and indicated, they say, walk to the fullest and take the whole screw, in the hope that ubunta will figure out where to put it, so as not to screw up other people's bootloaders. She allegedly looked for systems and during the installation about the disk did not ask anything else. As a result, it turned out that she took the entire disk for herself and shows that it is almost completely empty.

I tried to restore win7 from the rescue disk - to no avail. Now I'm thinking what to do. I'll rearrange the systems, I'm much more interested in personal files on the third partition. Did ubunta brazenly erase them all?

Tell me what can be done in this situation?

Answer 1

Testdisk + photorec to help you
and make a disk image if you really care about data

Answer 2

Not surprisingly, this happened, because you had to choose the "Install next to other systems" option, and your option simply formatted the disk and installed ubuntu on it.
If my option was not there, then there was not enough space on the hard to install ubuntu.

Answer 3

So them, girlfriend - it hurts more, conquer the world :) (it's me ubunte)
It was a joke (and this is for people without a sense of humor)

Answer 4

I read the title and thought that the Vendekapet had come.

Answer 5

Look for backups. If they are not there, use something like PhotoRec and search for files by signatures. And write as little as possible to the disk before restoring everything important.

Answer 6

R-Studio will help you get the data

Answer 7

In such cases, I did this: I deleted the partition, all partitions through Acronis Disk Director (installed on the boot recovery disk) and recovered data from the unformatted area using R-Studio.

Answer 8

Next time I advise you to first read this one - help.ubuntu.ru/manual/%D0%B2%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0% B5.

Answer 9

By the way, about the birds ... Just now I put Ubuntu on a clean screw for business reasons and also chose "Use the entire disk" in the hope that it will create the right size partition for swap and /home, and it stupidly like Windows installed on one partition. OpenSUSE is much smarter in this regard, it breaks everything according to the mind. I don’t understand that everyone is so sunk in ubuntu, it is far from the top of Linux perfection.

Answer 10

The Get Data Back program has helped me many times. I do not know how it is now, but earlier there were versions for FAT and NTFS. And you, apparently, the file system is now completely different. It's worth a try though.

Answer 11

If I say that you need to re-format the disk to the state it was in before, it probably won’t help in any way ...

Answer 12

If we are talking about simply restoring Windows, then it is better to reinstall it. If we are talking about data recovery, then it is better to do it with the help of a special program (we already wrote about R-Studio and Get Data Back above), but we must remember that the data must be restored to another screw (i.e. it is better to insert the screw into another computer and restore data to the screw of this computer), or (if the data is very valuable) as an option, contact the office where they are engaged in data recovery.

Answer 13

Ubuntu offers three options during installation: put Ubuntu next to Windows, use the entire disk (i.e. kill everything), and mark it manually. I always choose the third option, regardless of whether I have Windows or not. Because that's the only way you can control what happens to your drives.
So what did you choose? If the option is "kill everything", then follow the tips above for data recovery. If the option is “put side by side”, then trust your old NTFS disks in Ubuntu itself. Ubuntu reads (and writes) them just fine. Remember that if you had three NTFS partitions, then Ubuntu had to install itself somewhere, i.e. Ubuntu cannot be installed on a Windows partition next to Windows (probably), it should have reduced the size of some partition, created the necessary partitions for itself and installed there. I understand that Ubuntu is installed? Mount all possible windows partitions (if there are any, you will see them in the Go menu, just click on them) and run the command
df -h in the console
and drop the result here

Answer 14

For good data recovery, you need to do it from another computer, or at least from a system loaded from another hard drive that has enough free space to copy the recovered files. There are fancy paid utilities like Easy Recovery, the trial version of which shows that it can recover.