data recovery

[wilfdell]

Hi
not sure if I'm in the right forum here, I hope so...
I've got to try to recover data from a hard disk, I accidentally installed a bootable linux installation on it instead of my USB stick.
Can anyone help me?

Ta
Wilf

[joehk2018]

try test disk

https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

[oldfred]

If testdisk finds files that can be best case as it will find full file name.
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Step_By_Step

You can also try photorec, but it only finds files by scanning entire drive for file by type and then only has extension, not full file name.
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec_Step_By_Step

What was partitioning before and what is it now?
sudo parted -l

[TheFu]

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DataRecovery is pretty comprehensive.
There is no silver bullet and tremendous work will be installed.

1000000x easier to have backups.