Data recovery after installing win8 consumer preview
I had Win XP in my laptop and installed Ubuntu alongside XP on a later date . While booting, Ubuntu was coming first to give the choice of O.S. However, while installing the Win8 consumer preview everything got mixed up, I couldn't access any o.s and laptop became unusable.
However, I installed Ubuntu again, which brought the laptop back to life but erased all partitions and data and converted the total hard disk into a single large partition of .XT4 file system, which the Win XP installation CD declined to recognise.
With the kind help from the user community, especially from 'actionparsnip' I have managed to take back the hard disk space through Gparted in live cd and now I can again install Windows, if I like.
While using the Live cd, I tried to recover lost data through data recovery in GParted and I can see that 16GB of data in NTFS and 1GB of data in FAT 32 is there but when I am clicking the 'View' button, it is informing about some problem and the dialogue box is closing down.
Is there any way to solve this? I downloaded and installed "Foremost" but can not use it as I know nothing about writing any command to run programs.
Can anybody help please?
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