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how to recover lost partition of vista

Asked by chachi

I recently allowed someone to install ubuntu onto my computer which already had vista on it. The end result is he did not partition it manually and so instead it apparently installed and also wiped my vista out completely. I was told that to get the files back from vista i would have to send my hard drive off to a data retrieval company at a very high cost to possibly recover those files. Is this the only way? I have very important court documents on the vista that i must have.
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Rajkumar.R (rraj-be) said : 		#1

If your Vista partition is simply erased it could be recovered easily.But if it is overwriten its a complicated task to recover.

Get here for good guide's.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DataRecovery

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=417761

Hope this help's you.

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dino123 (mnikstllr7) said : 		#2

Don’t get panic when you lost your data. Few days back I have also face the similar situation. To recover my lost partitioned data, I have searched on Google and find software Stellar Phoenix Window data recovery which helps me to recover my files. You can try this software may be it will help you out to recover your lost data. You can download the software from http://www.partitionrecovery-software.com/

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tea_b (lynn3521) said : 		#3

i know how to recover lost partition for Mac, not for vista

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tea_b (lynn3521) said : 		#4

http://www.bestshareware.net/howto/recover-lost-mac-partition.htm

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