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When I do
grep -R =I pattern I do not get the files I want. Does this mean I have lost it permanently or is there a possibility that it is still out there?

I was able to recover the home directory but the not the files I wanted.

When I actually zoom in to the directory I want it actually starts the whole process again. What I meant by this was - I went under/home/ashwin/xyz for the specific files I want. It is basically doing the whole thing over ...

Thanks for your response. It(photorec) is doing the recovery and I am not sure how many files will be recovered.

Is it dangerous to shut it down while it is doing it ?

I have a Dell desktop 3800. I have never installed Windows on this. It is a pure Ubuntu system Linux system. I had 14.04 Ubuntu on it last week. I did not back up my /home directory before reinstalling Ubuntu 16.04 directory. Would testdisk help me recover my home directory ?