Long story short, I had 2 partitions on my hard drive. The bigger one for windows (it came installed with the laptop) and the smaller one for Ubuntu. The kernel(4.13) was acting weird after I messed up a few system files as root. So I went ahead and tried to reinstall Ubuntu (16.04 LTS). I was presented with 2 options - (1) reinstall Ubuntu on the same partition it was originally installed on and (2) delete all partitions and install Ubuntu. Honestly the sentences the installation wizard used to describe the two options was so similar I got confused and went for option 2. Now I'm sure (not so sure) that once a file system has been changed to a different kind there is no way to retrieve the data that was registered/represented by it. If there is, can somebody tell me what software I can use to recover my data?
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It may be by Testdisk
It can navigate, where the deleted files were, and copy them off.
Open your terminal and install testdisk by given below command
sudo apt-get install testdisk
sudo photorec
Thank You :)
