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I followed an online tutorial! All I had to do was replace Windows 8 with Ubuntu and the tutorial clearly said that you choose 'Replace OS with Ubuntu' during installation. That option was not available but the installation had one "use entire disk and install Ubuntu, this will delete your files and programs in all your operating systems"

Windows is the only Operating System and Ubuntu has wiped my whole disk now on Ubuntu, the command mount on terminal gives me this

NAME   FSTYPE   SIZE MOUNTPOINT LABEL
sda           298.1G            
├─sda1 ext4   294.2G /          
├─sda2            1K            
└─sda5 swap     3.9G [SWAP]     
sr0            1024M

It only shows one 298 GB partition. I had very very important data on my partitions. Ebooks,Important Pictures I had collected through out the years (I am a self learned programmer). Yes, I know I Should have created a back up but I did not. My system is a laptop. How can I retrieve my Lost data from this partition?

Braiam
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shahab uddin
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"Clean disk and install ubuntu, this will delete your files and programs in all your operating systems"

You understood that this means you told the system to remove Windows? You probably need to consider that the data is gone forever.

Possible things that could save you:

  1. Restore a backup. Very simple reasoning: if you have important data on a disk you make backups of that data. If your OS has a problem you re-install that OS and then restore your backup. If you do not have a backup you do not yell at other people for you wrecking your system.

  2. If you did NOTHING with your system after installing Ubuntu you might get away with it with a problem called testdisk. Here is a guide on this. Good luck with this. And I am serious with the "nothing": if you used Ubuntu and started installing software in sectors where Windows used to be you will corrupt the files you want to restore.

    Warning: you need to do this from a LIVE DVD. Not from your current installation.

    Focus on restoring your personal data and not on getting a complete Windows.

Rinzwind
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