Recover files from formatted ext4 partition???

[sienile]

I needed to do a reinstall, and thought I'd be fine moving my files to some directories off of root that did not exist in the Ubuntu directory tree. Wrong!

Ubuntu formatted my drive before reinstalling, so now I've lost everything! I'm using the LiveCD now to try to recover the files, but everything I've found so far has command line only interfaces and some only work with just deleted files.

Is there a GUI file recovery program for formatted ext4 partitions?

[rukiaEnix]

Use photorec, it comes with testdisk.

Is with command line but is not science from other world really...

With photorec I always recover lost stuff.

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download

[sienile]

testdisk was what I was trying to use, but apparently it only works with whole partitions and not files. I'm using photorec now. It seems to be finding a lot of stuff. Too bad it seems all the filenames are gone. It will take me forever to sort through 100GB of files if it manages to find everything.

Does anyone else have any suggestions?

[rukiaEnix]

Truth is... is the best options..