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sonicseaweed
March 15th, 2011, 07:44 AM
Hi,

I installed ubuntu 10.10 and selected my /dev/sda3 partition to be mounted as /home, however, the installation program formatted the partition (I did not check the format box). Now I have lost 300 GB of data. What I am mostly concerned with recovering are graphics (raster and vector) and documents. The rest I can live without. ANY help is welcomed. I have tried photorec which I will keep running despite the segmentation faults I keep getting, but it just gives me odd chunks of data.

I am currently running as the root user to avoid writing more to partition. Doomsayers need not comment.

mörgæs
March 15th, 2011, 10:15 AM
Have you seen this?
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DataRecovery

A couple of years old, but it might give you some ideas nevertheless.