Data recovery

[Entity]

So I'm slightly retarded. I accidentally overwrote one of my important HDs (digital photos, music) with a new installation of linux. The old HD was NTFS and had about 45gb of data on it; it's been overwritten with a 1.5GB linux (Ubuntu) installation.

Is there any way for me to recover any of that data? I've heard of tools that can do similar things (my roomate used one for his OSX installation a while back), but I don't know what they are, or if any of them actually can work in this sort of situation.

Rob

 

[screw3d]

Uh oh.. I don't know what software can do this, but I hope you've unplugged that HDD so that you won't overwrite anything more1

 

[Entity]

Yeah, I've already booted onto a separate HD.

 

[Jeff7]

Get the demo version of R-studio and let it scan the drive. The demo only lets you recover files up to 64KB, but if it's able to find and recover a number of small files from all over the disk, the chances that it can get the rest are pretty good.

 

[Entity]

Just for future reference: TestDisk + Ontrack's EasyRecovery software package works very well for this task. I got about 8gb of data recovered, which was most of what I hadn't remembered to back up. We'll see how many digital photos I get out of it -- that's my biggest concern.

Thanks for the responses.

Rob

 

[screw3d]

Originally posted by: Entity
Just for future reference: TestDisk + Ontrack's EasyRecovery software package works very well for this task. I got about 8gb of data recovered, which was most of what I hadn't remembered to back up. We'll see how many digital photos I get out of it -- that's my biggest concern.

Thanks for the responses.

Rob

:thumbsup: Good to hear that