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Recover Data From Formatted Hd My son attempted to install Linux on top of my XP NTFS filesystem

#1 User is offline   josiegross 

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Posted 22 June 2012 - 12:56 AM

Hi, my son attempted to install Linux over my XP installation and now I would like to recover data from the drive. I would love to not have to buy software for this as I don't anticipate having to do this often. I am able to see the files using the demo mode of some of the commercial packages that do this, but I have not been able to find something that is open source to help me. BTW, I did try testdisk and diskpartd but it was unable to see the files

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Posted 22 June 2012 - 05:47 AM

You can use this tool:
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

It is free and it works well.
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Posted 22 June 2012 - 10:46 AM

If you have another Windows machine, put the hard drive in it, and run Recuva on it. (see this: http://www.piriform....formatted-disks)
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