I wanted to upgrade a very old version of ubuntu to recent one so I made the following steps:
1) I created a large (over 30GB) tar.gz archive containing all data from my home directory
2) Moved it to ntfs partition
3) Launched ubuntu (12.04) from cd
4) Resized the ntfs partition during installation
5) Completed the installation
Then I launched my brand new ubuntu and wanted to copy the archive so:
1) I mounted the partition on which the archive was located
2) I have run 'ls -l' in the place of filesize, modification date etc. '?' appeared instead of any values
3) I launched Windows XP which is installed on the same machine and it did not show that file on the partition at all
4) Linux also does not show the file anymore
I tried running chkdisk under windows which did not fix the problem. I also tried ntfsundelete in Linux which shows that this file cannot be recovered.
I would appreciate any help very much! I have lost a lot of data. What could have happend? Is there any chance of recovering this file?
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