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Is there a way to recover my files?

Asked by Abcede dela Cruz

hello,
       Apparently i had change OS from windows 7 to Linux Ubuntu, I accidentally made my hard drive into only one partition and my back-ups are on the other partition which is now part of my single drive.. The question is... Can i still recover my back ups even if they are in the same partition which I am using?? Please help!!
       Thank you for your help.!!

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Could try foremost to restore data. You will need a partition mounted writable to spit the files out to. Backing up to the same drive is a REALLY bad idea. If the drive fails you have no backup. If you backup to a different drive or a remote storage and the drive fails you can restore the data easily

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bcbc (bcbc) said : 		#2

Use testdisk. It might even be able to recover the entire partition. Don't boot the computer from the harddrive as this could destroy the data. Boot from a Live CD and install testdisk.
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Step_By_Step

If that fails, you can use photorec - that's included with testdisk.

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