I recently installed Windows on my pc and by mistake when i had to choose which hard drive to install i deleted my other hard drive thats Ubuntu with important data any idea how can i recover my Ubuntu system and partitions.
Thank you so much man! Even after 12 years of posting this video is still relevant. Thank you for your hardwork. And my heartfelt thanks to whoever have developed testdisk software. I got back the stuffs I lost in an unfortunate event. May God bless both of you ❤️
Thank you very much for your help, this video was very helpful. I recovered all the information that I need from a disk which, I drop the partition by mistake with DISKPART by using the CLEAN command thanks again.
Lifesaver!! I had to do a deep scan because I aborted a partition resize. After scanning about 2% testdisk found the original partition and restored the partition table. Note to self: never abort a partition resize. ;)
Very nice tutorial sans the circular back ground music. Too loud to concentrate on what is being said. Nevertheless, I accidentally soft formatted (Quick) a 1TB USB storage external HDD. Could you please provide some help? Looking forward to hear from you. Have a nice time and take care. :-)
Love the video! Hard drive problems? We've got your back. SalvageData has been recovering data from hard drives since 2003 with a 96-percent success rate, and we save you the hassle of trying to fix something that isn't broken - because sometimes it is!
I am going to see if I can use this to recover my brother's HP laptop OS. He deleted the OS and the HP recovery partition. He didn't know what he was doing and thought he did.
i have a ssd having windows 10 and a 1TB hard drive having Linux(PopOS). Few days ago i was re installing the windows and i accidentally deleted the drive having Linux on the windows partition menu screen. Now i have unallocated space of 1TB. Is this possible to recover the whole drive or the data inside the drive. My data was inside the Downloads folder of the PopOS. Please Guide , I'll be grateful to you.
I accidentally wiped my dual boot setup trying to put Ubuntu 14.04 over 12.04, and although most of it is stuff that doesn't matter, there is some importantish data, and I feel like I complete idiot. I haven't finished trying the steps here, but THE MUSIC, oh, god, I could have run over a small child and still felt good about myself, listening to the happy music, listening to a kind gentle understanding voice.
replaced win7 with ubuntu but deleted all my previous partitions during the install process( accidentally, didnt know its gonna delete other partitions, sign of dumbness ,,lol.. ).. so can i recover those partitions which had mostly the pictures in it.
I have a question. I have a 16gb SD card and I deleted the NTFS file not knowing that it will mess up my data. Could I used this to download an NTFS back into my sd card?
The music made me hate life, but it worked out for me. Most of the data stuff I know how to do involves when the drive is defective or damaged. (Using Safecopy) so I was glad there was an easy way haha.
HELP HELP HELP while installing ubuntu i clicked on delete data and now my whole harddrive is formatted and all the partitions are removed please help me how can i get my data back
My disk had three partitions on it that was setup by Windows 7 as a boot drive. The first part was the boot part, the 2nd I thought was the main part, and the 3rd part I thought was the recovery part. I recovered the 2nd part and it turns out it was the wrong one. I tried to recover the 3rd part with no luck. Any suggestions?
I'm getting a lot more partitions that I had created, and all are showing Deleted. Please help me out finding which one is bootable and what are legacy and primary options?
i would like fisrt to thanks you for your effort i'm a new use for ubuntu and when i installed it i figured out that i lost all other partitions that i had while i was using windows my qst is how did you skip the "sudo pass" after taping "sudo testdisk" ? thanks
I almost never comment on videos, but I have to for this one: Thank you so much! Was seconds away from reinstalling OSX when I came across your video, the instructions are almost identical for Mac, and I now have all the files I was sure I had lost.
Hello there.. I mistakenly used sudo mkfs.ext4 on /dev/sdc1 instead of using it on /dev/sdb1. Needless to say, my partition got formattted. Somewhat luckily for me it was not my boot partition but an old data drive. I installed testdisk, and reached @5:16 but that is where we start to differ in outputs. I get "The harddisk (640 GB /596 GiB) seems too small! (
This did not work for me, Out of 4 Partitions, the deleted empty partution is still empty. WORSE, after i did what you have shown here on my system - my other healthy partition got deleted - now it is shown as free space. PLEASE HELP!!
This worked after I mistakenly wiped a Windows 7 install from my second hard drive (sdb/sdb1)..during a Windows 7 install from boot disk. Yeah..OOOPS! Since My sda drive was running Ubuntu Studio 18.10 and i immediately rebooted back into the Ubuntu environment, installed testdisk using 'sudo apt-get install testdisk' command at a terminal. Then ran gparted as su launching 'command sudo gparted' from same console. For some reason, Ubuntu Studio seems to disallow me any use of gparted unless i do this. Then followed your steps from there. Results? FULL RECOVERY. THANK YOU!!! Saved a very careless mistake on my part about 175GB of data. 10 years after your initial post, its on point my dude. Thank you!!!
@amzertech - here's what happened I have a computer with dual boot Ubuntu and Windows, I decided to delete Ubuntu coz it's for my gf and she doesn't know how to use it. When I deleted the partition in Computer Management, it also deleted the Storage files of my Windows partition. My face got cold blue, and my mind started to fade out. Glad I searched in Google recover deleted windows partition ubuntu then I saw your video. I will watch all your videos on the weekend. Thank you sir! Subscribed!
I had drive C & D & E and I decided to install Ubuntu and i choice to erase everything I thoughts it will delete my old Ubuntu but it deleted my all drives and data so now I have Ubuntu with no data :( i really need help its important files I cant control my mind plz anyone happened with him like me and he knows how to recover data to tell me
Great stuff..I lost hopes after trying to recover files from Windows..Thanks for the eye opener tutorial..recovered my files totally from all partitions.kudos to you :)
Question please, I deleted by mistake my External HardDisk WD. I tried to recover it but no hope! When I used TestDisk the HDD appears in the Drives list. So, now how can I get to it? I cannot find it in the Computer icon. I guess it says "un-allocated" What should I do? Can you help please? Thanks
An OK tutorial if you have the simple, easy, problem of a simple freshly deleted partition. What about when you have a more complex situation such as when Linux has grabbed two NTFS partitions and converted them to Linux partitions - how do you recover from that? All the data is still there (I can see it with PhotoRec) but I want the partitions back so as to avoid a horrendus recovery job.
The secret is to not perform any actions on the lost partition such as create a new partition etc. I switched the HDD that was affected OFF as soon as I had realised that I had screwed up and TestDisk worked perfectly. Your situation sounds more complex. Good luck.
i wish this would have worked for me... i deleted 465 Gb movies, music etc... right now im trying Active undelete enterprise edition and I hope it works...
hi. i'm new in ubuntu os. i try to install ubuntu to a HDD (old wind hdd) from a usb . the pc boot from the usb and install the os ubunto in the internal hdd. i restar the pc and remove the usb. now i boot from the hdd but nothing happend.. i took the hdd out and tested in a different pc (wind 7) but the hdd do not work. know. do not appear in my computer folder.. something happend whit the hdd after install the ubunto os.. i need help
Hi, very good video. I'm using Linux Mint and I deleted accidently the unique hard disk partition. Next time I turned on the cumputer I had no access to the O.S. (underline blinking at the corner of the screen) so I boot from a Linux Live CD installation and follow this instructions. After that I rebooted it and still no O.S. found in hard drive so here I am in the Live CD again. The partition e showed as ntfs in g-parted (should it be ext?) but still can't find my stuff.
Hello, my computer runs windows 7 and linux. I had 4 partitions in total. 1 for windows and the other 3 for linux. I completely messed up and deleted 3 partitions on my hard disk. I cannot start my computer, but I can boot from a live linux CD. I want to perform this procedure on my computer to recover the deleted partitions but, wanted to know if I could do this on the 3 partitions I deleted and how to do it. Thanks!
I loaned a WD 1TB My Book to a friend and it came back w/o being able to access the files - over 350GB of music and 200GB of photos! The error stated that "the disk was not formatted do you want to format now?" I chose "No" and used TestDisk (on Win XP) to try to find the partition. It found the right one in a backup sector (the primary sector was bad) and rewrote it. Works great now, all files are accessible. Thanks! You might want to tell people where to download TestDisk.
ugh... I cannot do this because after I accidently deleted a partition of an essential folder in ubuntu, I get an error whenever I try to install something! when in terminal, when I try to install an app, it says "E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (100)" or something very similar. PLEASE HELP if you can, it would be greatly appreciated.
Hey amzer! Its a nice video, but I could not yet install testdisk. Don't know whats going on.. I have lost my partitions for win 7 while trying to install ubuntu along with it. I have downloaded testdisk-6.14-WIP.linux26.tar.bz2 and installed it (sudo dpkg -i testdisk_6.14-2_all.deb). But still I could not run testdisk. please help
Bro I really need youre help. Basically I tried to install mac on pc but the installation failed and I accidently deleted the windows files. After this I installed ubuntu and I'm running test disk now and ik coming up with the Linux and I think the mac stuff and I can't find my files. What should I do. Please reply
@marcusthedog WOW! It has been 5 months since I responded to your comment. I still need to create a Live CD for TestDisk as it will still provide a great solution for what I need to do. At the same time I will also promote your video through my Google+ network. I'm sure that the "techies" will enjoy the information.
hello, I accidentally instaled Ubuntu on my 117 GB partition and it didn't formated it ... but I wanted to install Ubuntu on my 12 GB partition ... and it accidetally jump on 117 GB .. and it changed from NTFS to ext4 thnen I was able to boot Ubuntu but ubunutu told me there are ony 1 partition with 128 TB space (on160 GB) disk. can any1 help me ? how to give it back ? please
Thanks for the video. I have an XP HD which cannot be seen in XP, but in TestDisk it is there as are the files.. If I hit Write will is there any chnace that it will delete my files... 496GB of them? I have subscribed so will get around to looking at them all. Good job!!
Go to Ubuntu Software Center and search for Synaptic. Install it. Once it's done and you open it, click first on Reload (it's a must). After this, search for "testdisk" and when you find it, click on Mark to install, then Apply. It'll install Test Disk. Good luck.
hi got a question, great vid btw. I partitioned my hard drive in 2 parts. I realized that I accidently made the 2nd partition too big so i changed it back to 1 partition and at that point i lost all my data. Will this work? I'm trying it now and its not working so just wondering if i should keep at it.
Does this software work also if I erased the partition with disk utility trough my mac changing from a Windows NT filesystem compressed to a mac OS extended Journaled? I need recover my old Windows NT partition that contains important Final Cut projects!! Thanks
Right I've had trouble dual booting Linux and have made Many attempts to install thus making several partitions, I'm now fed up and I'm just completely installing it I'm going to use the whole hard drive and delete everything off my windows os, will I still be able to use the whole hard drive?
I had an external hdd 500gb with two partions - one a mac time machine back up (HFS+) the other FAT32. on ubuntu i hit the format button with the wrong hdd seleted and it deleted both partions and created one fat32 partion. should Testdisk be able to get back my partions or at least my FAT32 partion?
hey when i was installing my OS xp by mistake i delete my partition now i need all my stuff wht i formate it from D partition can some one tell me how to recover i google there are bounch of software i don't know which one works
hi, i have a question a made a mistake while installing ubuntu , and i deleted my xp and all the data i really dont care about recovering xp, but i need to recover all my data, can this software do that???nice vid
thank you for info about deleted partitions. After shutdown my ubuntu i have lost data.The partition does not mounted and does not show info about free space etc. Actually i working on this for rescue my data. Thank you!!
hi i have a problem @ 4:26 this screen doesn't appear yust the screen @ 4:34 and i cant quicksearch i deleted the partition of my desktop hard drive by accident help please :( oh and 5 stars
Hi, I installed Ubuntu and lost Windows and all the data on it. I am trying to follow the video but I can't find the synaptic package manager. I tried to install it from the terminal and it says it is obsolete ... So I am stuck right now. Please can someone help
i accidently made my primary c drive windows 7 my swap partition in unbuntu 14.04, I just noticed it , I stop the swap, do u how what I can do to revocer my win 7 partition.
i deleted them all using the command key ' rm -f -r /home/ ' then tried recovering it using this demo graph. i did everything you did and i can't find my files afterwards. most of my files where on my desktop. plus the testdisk says there's more data in my hard drive as if it was restored. are they in a certain file i need to find? i'm kind of lost what should i do next? should i redo the process?
THANK YOU SO MUCH GOD BLESS YOU , I AM A PHOTOGRAPHER AND LOST THE PARITION WHEN TRYING TO REZISE IT! I had tons of very important files !! thank you so so much !!
i like this video, it was really very clear, simple English. this really happened to my computer, its my first time to use Ubuntu. i have been following your directions closely now i am going to restart the computer now and i see if it helps me recover my partition. Iam really excited .
do you know how to recover files, when de external hard disk don't show my files, i already try everything, i know my files still in the drive because of de gb, thanks
THANK YOU!!!!!!! I just managed to restore all my business work of more than seven years from a failed lost partition drive using your method from a virtual machine.
Thank you very much ! You are a lifesaver. I followed your easy instructions and BINGO the 2 TBs of data I had accidentally wiped have been returned intact. Cheers.
Thank you so much. I had a GParted Live USB drive that I had used to accidentally delete an important partition. It turns out testdisk was on the same USB drive and I just needed to run terminal to use it. Thanks again.
hi , i needed to do the deeper search since my whole harddisk was formatted by the clean command in command prompt , now the search is complete and many partitions are listed here , so how should i select the particular partitions to recover them ( the next step is enter to proceed and then write but before that how to select the partitions to recover them ? )
Hey, you can avoid the reboot by using partprobe. Every partition on the drive should be unmounted to be successful. It works in the most cases... Best regards!
Thank you my friend, let me tell you, you have just saved my life! I accidentally deleted my Windows partition which contained some VERY important files and photos that I hadn't had time to backup yet, and following your excellent instructions I managed to recover the partition absolutely intact. The moral of this story I suppose is, back up back up back up! Thank you very much.
Thanks for the vid; greatly appreciated! I accidentally formated one of my FAT32 partitions on my external harddrive on my PowerMac G5, I tried booting into Ubuntu and Kubuntu with a live CD, like I always do when things go awry, (for GParted and Partition Editor) but they both didn't boot :( Now, I'm scanning my 1TB HDD for that partition, thanks again. BTW, what screencasting program do you use?
Yep, it worked thanks! for me the partition was green and set to L or logical. This only worked when I set it to D for Deleted, and it turned green and i could access it finally
Thank you, I have revovered an external disk with 2.0 tb of data!
Nice choice of music too, it helps relaxing in such dire moments..
@XohshitztonysbackX
Yes it does..I'm actually trying it now and so far so good =)
I recently installed Windows on my pc and by mistake when i had to choose which hard drive to install i deleted my other hard drive thats Ubuntu with important data any idea how can i recover my Ubuntu system and partitions.
Thank you so much man! Even after 12 years of posting this video is still relevant. Thank you for your hardwork. And my heartfelt thanks to whoever have developed testdisk software. I got back the stuffs I lost in an unfortunate event. May God bless both of you ❤️
These instructions still worked(with some modificatiions and despite me being drunk) in 2024. Thanks for sharing.
@XohshitztonysbackX yes, it does! i recovered a partition in windows 7 (it was created in windows xp)
Thank you very much for your help, this video was very helpful. I recovered all the information that I need from a disk which, I drop the partition by mistake with DISKPART by using the CLEAN command thanks again.
Lifesaver!! I had to do a deep scan because I aborted a partition resize. After scanning about 2% testdisk found the original partition and restored the partition table. Note to self: never abort a partition resize. ;)
i am install Ubuntu but my old windows OS all partition data totally loss.
How can windows data to get back in Ubuntu?
same here! Please help!
Same here any one here to help
Very nice tutorial sans the circular back ground music. Too loud to concentrate on what is being said.
Nevertheless, I accidentally soft formatted (Quick) a 1TB USB storage external HDD. Could you please provide some help? Looking forward to hear from you. Have a nice time and take care. :-)
THANKS A LOT DUDE ,DUE TO YOUR WONDERFUL VIDEO, I RECOVERED MY ALL LOST DATA..THANKS A LOT AGAIN.....
Love the video! Hard drive problems? We've got your back. SalvageData has been recovering data from hard drives since 2003 with a 96-percent success rate, and we save you the hassle of trying to fix something that isn't broken - because sometimes it is!
I am going to see if I can use this to recover my brother's HP laptop OS. He deleted the OS and the HP recovery partition. He didn't know what he was doing and thought he did.
i have a ssd having windows 10 and a 1TB hard drive having Linux(PopOS). Few days ago i was re installing the windows and i accidentally deleted the drive having Linux on the windows partition menu screen. Now i have unallocated space of 1TB. Is this possible to recover the whole drive or the data inside the drive. My data was inside the Downloads folder of the PopOS. Please Guide , I'll be grateful to you.
I accidentally wiped my dual boot setup trying to put Ubuntu 14.04 over 12.04, and although most of it is stuff that doesn't matter, there is some importantish data, and I feel like I complete idiot. I haven't finished trying the steps here, but THE MUSIC, oh, god, I could have run over a small child and still felt good about myself, listening to the happy music, listening to a kind gentle understanding voice.
Thank you, but my partitions merged into one after installing a fresh copy of Xubuntu.
How do I separate them again?
replaced win7 with ubuntu but deleted all my previous partitions during the install process( accidentally, didnt know its gonna delete other partitions, sign of dumbness ,,lol.. ).. so can i recover those partitions which had mostly the pictures in it.
bulletbugs I did the same too :( , could you solve it?
+bulletbugs did you find a solution? I made the same mistake
@bulletbugs I did the same too.. did u find a solution please let me know..
Hai.. anybody got solution.. Please help me also
I also do the same mistake during installation
Accidentally i have lost my all partions after installing Ubuntu, How can i recover my partions? Is there any solid way...?
@Charcha Vishay kuch solution nikla iska
I have a question. I have a 16gb SD card and I deleted the NTFS file not knowing that it will mess up my data. Could I used this to download an NTFS back into my sd card?
The music made me hate life, but it worked out for me. Most of the data stuff I know how to do involves when the drive is defective or damaged. (Using Safecopy) so I was glad there was an easy way haha.
HELP HELP HELP while installing ubuntu i clicked on delete data and now my whole harddrive is formatted and all the partitions are removed please help me how can i get my data back
My disk had three partitions on it that was setup by Windows 7 as a boot drive. The first part was the boot part, the 2nd I thought was the main part, and the 3rd part I thought was the recovery part. I recovered the 2nd part and it turns out it was the wrong one. I tried to recover the 3rd part with no luck. Any suggestions?
Can you please tell me, How to get back of formatted external hard disk data?
Saved my life, man. You are amazing. This tutorial is easy to follow and worked for me
Meu HDD é de 4TB e aparece partition Protetion GPT, será que também funciona e não perco meus dados?
It works, thank you so much you saved my life :)
I'm getting a lot more partitions that I had created, and all are showing Deleted.
Please help me out finding which one is bootable and what are legacy and primary options?
i would like fisrt to thanks you for your effort
i'm a new use for ubuntu and when i installed it i figured out that i lost all other partitions that i had while i was using windows
my qst is how did you skip the "sudo pass" after taping "sudo testdisk" ?
thanks
good knowledge provide in the video..i would also like to know which screen recorder application you are using in ubuntu.
I am prety sure that in this case you dont need to reboot to see the recovered partition, the partprobe command should be enough
I almost never comment on videos, but I have to for this one:
Thank you so much! Was seconds away from reinstalling OSX when I came across your video, the instructions are almost identical for Mac, and I now have all the files I was sure I had lost.
Hello there.. I mistakenly used sudo mkfs.ext4 on /dev/sdc1 instead of using it on /dev/sdb1. Needless to say, my partition got formattted. Somewhat luckily for me it was not my boot partition but an old data drive. I installed testdisk, and reached @5:16 but that is where we start to differ in outputs. I get "The harddisk (640 GB /596 GiB) seems too small! (
This did not work for me, Out of 4 Partitions, the deleted empty partution is still empty.
WORSE, after i did what you have shown here on my system - my other healthy partition got deleted - now it is shown as free space. PLEASE HELP!!
This worked after I mistakenly wiped a Windows 7 install from my second hard drive (sdb/sdb1)..during a Windows 7 install from boot disk. Yeah..OOOPS!
Since My sda drive was running Ubuntu Studio 18.10 and i immediately rebooted back into the Ubuntu environment,
installed testdisk using 'sudo apt-get install testdisk' command at a terminal.
Then ran gparted as su launching 'command sudo gparted' from same console.
For some reason, Ubuntu Studio seems to disallow me any use of gparted unless i do this.
Then followed your steps from there. Results?
FULL RECOVERY. THANK YOU!!! Saved a very careless mistake on my part about 175GB of data.
10 years after your initial post, its on point my dude. Thank you!!!
I wish I had known about this about a month back when i accidentally removed a whole partition with EVERYTHING.
Thank you lots!
@amzertech - here's what happened I have a computer with dual boot Ubuntu and Windows, I decided to delete Ubuntu coz it's for my gf and she doesn't know how to use it. When I deleted the partition in Computer Management, it also deleted the Storage files of my Windows partition.
My face got cold blue, and my mind started to fade out. Glad I searched in Google recover deleted windows partition ubuntu then I saw your video.
I will watch all your videos on the weekend. Thank you sir! Subscribed!
I had drive C & D & E and I decided to install Ubuntu and i choice to erase everything I thoughts it will delete my old Ubuntu but it deleted my all drives and data
so now I have Ubuntu with no data :(
i really need help its important files
I cant control my mind
plz anyone happened with him like me and he knows how to recover data to tell me
Great stuff..I lost hopes after trying to recover files from Windows..Thanks for the eye opener tutorial..recovered my files totally from all partitions.kudos to you :)
Omkar Thopate Broo You need to have to Install Testdisk first
Question please, I deleted by mistake my External HardDisk WD. I tried to recover it but no hope!
When I used TestDisk the HDD appears in the Drives list.
So, now how can I get to it?
I cannot find it in the Computer icon. I guess it says "un-allocated"
What should I do? Can you help please?
Thanks
An OK tutorial if you have the simple, easy, problem of a simple freshly deleted partition. What about when you have a more complex situation such as when Linux has grabbed two NTFS partitions and converted them to Linux partitions - how do you recover from that? All the data is still there (I can see it with PhotoRec) but I want the partitions back so as to avoid a horrendus recovery job.
The secret is to not perform any actions on the lost partition such as create a new partition etc. I switched the HDD that was affected OFF as soon as I had realised that I had screwed up and TestDisk worked perfectly. Your situation sounds more complex. Good luck.
I Love You. You just saved my life bro. Thanks
Thank You For Help ... My problem got solved 👍
i wish this would have worked for me... i deleted 465 Gb movies, music etc... right now im trying Active undelete enterprise edition and I hope it works...
hi. i'm new in ubuntu os. i try to install ubuntu to a HDD (old wind hdd) from a usb . the pc boot from the usb and install the os ubunto in the internal hdd. i restar the pc and remove the usb. now i boot from the hdd but nothing happend.. i took the hdd out and tested in a different pc (wind 7) but the hdd do not work. know. do not appear in my computer folder.. something happend whit the hdd after install the ubunto os.. i need help
Hi, very good video. I'm using Linux Mint and I deleted accidently the unique hard disk partition. Next time I turned on the cumputer I had no access to the O.S. (underline blinking at the corner of the screen) so I boot from a Linux Live CD installation and follow this instructions. After that I rebooted it and still no O.S. found in hard drive so here I am in the Live CD again. The partition e showed as ntfs in g-parted (should it be ext?) but still can't find my stuff.
Hello, my computer runs windows 7 and linux. I had 4 partitions in total. 1 for windows and the other 3 for linux. I completely messed up and deleted 3 partitions on my hard disk. I cannot start my computer, but I can boot from a live linux CD. I want to perform this procedure on my computer to recover the deleted partitions but, wanted to know if I could do this on the 3 partitions I deleted and how to do it.
Thanks!
I loaned a WD 1TB My Book to a friend and it came back w/o being able to access the files - over 350GB of music and 200GB of photos! The error stated that "the disk was not formatted do you want to format now?" I chose "No" and used TestDisk (on Win XP) to try to find the partition. It found the right one in a backup sector (the primary sector was bad) and rewrote it. Works great now, all files are accessible. Thanks! You might want to tell people where to download TestDisk.
ugh... I cannot do this because after I accidently deleted a partition of an essential folder in ubuntu, I get an error whenever I try to install something! when in terminal, when I try to install an app, it says "E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (100)" or something very similar. PLEASE HELP if you can, it would be greatly appreciated.
Hey amzer! Its a nice video, but I could not yet install testdisk. Don't know whats going on..
I have lost my partitions for win 7 while trying to install ubuntu along with it.
I have downloaded testdisk-6.14-WIP.linux26.tar.bz2 and installed it (sudo dpkg -i testdisk_6.14-2_all.deb).
But still I could not run testdisk.
please help
Bro I really need youre help. Basically I tried to install mac on pc but the installation failed and I accidently deleted the windows files. After this I installed ubuntu and I'm running test disk now and ik coming up with the Linux and I think the mac stuff and I can't find my files. What should I do. Please reply
@marcusthedog WOW! It has been 5 months since I responded to your comment. I still need to create a Live CD for TestDisk as it will still provide a great solution for what I need to do. At the same time I will also promote your video through my Google+ network. I'm sure that the "techies" will enjoy the information.
hello, I accidentally instaled Ubuntu on my 117 GB partition and it didn't formated it ... but I wanted to install Ubuntu on my 12 GB partition ... and it accidetally jump on 117 GB .. and it changed from NTFS to ext4 thnen I was able to boot Ubuntu but ubunutu told me there are ony 1 partition with 128 TB space (on160 GB) disk. can any1 help me ? how to give it back ? please
Thanks for the video. I have an XP HD which cannot be seen in XP, but in TestDisk it is there as are the files.. If I hit Write will is there any chnace that it will delete my files... 496GB of them? I have subscribed so will get around to looking at them all. Good job!!
Go to Ubuntu Software Center and search for Synaptic. Install it. Once it's done and you open it, click first on Reload (it's a must). After this, search for "testdisk" and when you find it, click on Mark to install, then Apply. It'll install Test Disk.
Good luck.
hi got a question, great vid btw. I partitioned my hard drive in 2 parts. I realized that I accidently made the 2nd partition too big so i changed it back to 1 partition and at that point i lost all my data. Will this work? I'm trying it now and its not working so just wondering if i should keep at it.
Does this software work also if I erased the partition with disk utility trough my mac changing from a Windows NT filesystem compressed to a mac OS extended Journaled? I need recover my old Windows NT partition that contains important Final Cut projects!! Thanks
Right I've had trouble dual booting Linux and have made Many attempts to install thus making several partitions, I'm now fed up and I'm just completely installing it I'm going to use the whole hard drive and delete everything off my windows os, will I still be able to use the whole hard drive?
I had an external hdd 500gb with two partions - one a mac time machine back up (HFS+) the other FAT32. on ubuntu i hit the format button with the wrong hdd seleted and it deleted both partions and created one fat32 partion. should Testdisk be able to get back my partions or at least my FAT32 partion?
hey when i was installing my OS xp by mistake i delete my partition now i need all my stuff wht i formate it from D partition can some one tell me how to recover i google there are bounch of software i don't know which one works
hi, i have a question a made a mistake while installing ubuntu , and i deleted my xp and all the data i really dont care about recovering xp, but i need to recover all my data, can this software do that???nice vid
thank you for info about deleted partitions. After shutdown my ubuntu i have lost data.The partition does not mounted and does not show info about free space etc.
Actually i working on this for rescue my data.
Thank you!!
hi i have a problem @ 4:26 this screen doesn't
appear yust the screen @ 4:34 and i cant quicksearch i deleted the partition of my desktop hard drive by accident help please :(
oh and 5 stars
Hi, I installed Ubuntu and lost Windows and all the data on it. I am trying to follow the video but I can't find the synaptic package manager. I tried to install it from the terminal and it says it is obsolete ... So I am stuck right now. Please can someone help
i accidently made my primary c drive windows 7 my swap partition in unbuntu 14.04, I just noticed it , I stop the swap, do u how what I can do to revocer my win 7 partition.
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i deleted them all using the command key ' rm -f -r /home/ '
then tried recovering it using this demo graph. i did everything you did and i can't find my files afterwards. most of my files where on my desktop. plus the testdisk says there's more data in my hard drive as if it was restored. are they in a certain file i need to find? i'm kind of lost what should i do next? should i redo the process?
THANK YOU SO MUCH GOD BLESS YOU , I AM A PHOTOGRAPHER AND LOST THE PARITION WHEN TRYING TO REZISE IT! I had tons of very important files !! thank you so so much !!
i like this video, it was really very clear, simple English. this really happened to my computer, its my first time to use Ubuntu. i have been following your directions closely now i am going to restart the computer now and i see if it helps me recover my partition. Iam really excited .
do you know how to recover files, when de external hard disk don't show my files, i already try everything, i know my files still in the drive because of de gb, thanks
Did you find a solution for this?
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THANK YOU!!!!!!! I just managed to restore all my business work of more than seven years from a failed lost partition drive using your method from a virtual machine.
Thank you very much ! You are a lifesaver. I followed your easy instructions and BINGO the 2 TBs of data I had accidentally wiped have been returned intact. Cheers.
What is the TERMINAL?
i dont know what is this and where can i download TESTdisk? and i have win7 is it work for me?
Thank you so much. I had a GParted Live USB drive that I had used to accidentally delete an important partition. It turns out testdisk was on the same USB drive and I just needed to run terminal to use it. Thanks again.
i selected create partition table under gparted but it made my drive appear as a 31.4gb drive instead of 61.5, what do
Hello, i Linux my data unfortunately deleted .only empty folders left. Please tell me how should i recover them in directory manner.
This is an *excellent* video. I may create a Live CD for TestDisk as a Plan B for a PC that may not startup.
I owe you a hundred of beers! Your video helped me out recovering a data partition.
What do you do in case of an EXT4 partition?
I think the drive wasn't formatted properly (taking some space) or there were other partitions along.
Thank you very much, I found files back on my NTFS partion after I deleted them on Manjaro...
hi , i needed to do the deeper search since my whole harddisk was formatted by the clean command in command prompt , now the search is complete and many partitions are listed here , so how should i select the particular partitions to recover them ( the next step is enter to proceed and then write but before that how to select the partitions to recover them ? )
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amazing video! Thanks!
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Wow all I had to do after 2 days is hit the write button
Hey, you can avoid the reboot by using partprobe. Every partition on the drive should be unmounted to be successful. It works in the most cases... Best regards!
Thanks for posting this so long ago! I was careless and cleaned the wrong drive in diskpart. This video and testdisk saved the day!
Also...the fat32 partition I was trying to recover was on a external USB enclosure.
I accidentally deleted a software raid partition mde in Windows 7. Can I recover it?
Thank you my friend, let me tell you, you have just saved my life! I accidentally deleted my Windows partition which contained some VERY important files and photos that I hadn't had time to backup yet, and following your excellent instructions I managed to recover the partition absolutely intact. The moral of this story I suppose is, back up back up back up! Thank you very much.
Thankyou, You saved my data and money !!
Saved my data! Thanks very much!
where i found synaptic package manager in ubunto 11.10? i'm new in ubuntu
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Will this work with elementary os?
I couldnt fix the drive and sometime soon it's going to get broke lol
thumbs up if your computer just committed suicide
Thanks for the vid; greatly appreciated! I accidentally formated one of my FAT32 partitions on my external harddrive on my PowerMac G5, I tried booting into Ubuntu and Kubuntu with a live CD, like I always do when things go awry, (for GParted and Partition Editor) but they both didn't boot :( Now, I'm scanning my 1TB HDD for that partition, thanks again. BTW, what screencasting program do you use?
I have msg to show command not found 😥
good man you just saved me from awful embarrasment i have subscribed well done
Yep, it worked thanks!
for me the partition was green and set to L or logical. This only worked when I set it to D for Deleted, and it turned green and i could access it finally