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I had an ext2 partition and by mistake I reformatted it to ext4.
I immediately noticed the problem because at the next reboot my system wouldn't mount the reformatted partition, which got a new UUID and therefore did not match the one in /etc/fstab.

After reformatting I did not write anything to the disk.
Is there any chance I can recover the data files on this partition?

Pabi
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Giorgio
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Maybe. I have never tried the following steps, but there are several links to data recovery in AskUbuntu:

Partitions disappeared after power loss while installing

http://www.geekyprojects.com/storage/how-to-recover-data-even-when-hard-drive-is-damaged/

How to recover deleted files?

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Charles Green
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