While installing Ubuntu, by mistake I gave my C drive as the Swap space. It ended up formatting the logical drive(E, but not C !). I realised my mistake in the middle and forcefully ended installation. However it formatted the disk. On windows, the disk space appears to be unallocated. Is there a way I can recover the data?
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You gave it as swap?! And you're currently using this Linux? I think you lost all your files. Disable this swap space immediately (swapoff). The longer it remains active the less chance you have of saving anything. If you can keep this PC off, it's better.
I suggest you boot your computer with Hiren's Boot CD. It has a number of tools for maintenance... among these, there are a few for recovering deleted files/files from lost partitions.
Good luck. If your computer has sufficient RAM, maybe Linux hasn't used your swap partition yet and you may have a chance of recovering your important files.
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