Trying to restore partition and now the whole drive is gone
Posted: 11 May 2014, 11:55
I have a dell studio 1537 that I have a triple boot setup on. I have windows vista ona primary partion then an extended partion with ubuntu 12.04 and kali linux along with a small swap partion.
Recently while trying to copy files from a USB device to my laptop the partition with ubuntu on it was copied over. Using gparted live and a guide I found I attempted to restore it using testdisk but somehow something went horribly wrong, The entire drive of my laptop is now empty. After having that happen I am nervouse to say the least to try any sort of recovery without first getting some advice. I would like to be able to restore everything to how it was but if thats not possible so be it. At a bare minimum though I would like to get the vista partition restored and some photos that were on ubuntu.
If anyone can help me at all I would be extremly greatful. Thanks
Recently while trying to copy files from a USB device to my laptop the partition with ubuntu on it was copied over. Using gparted live and a guide I found I attempted to restore it using testdisk but somehow something went horribly wrong, The entire drive of my laptop is now empty. After having that happen I am nervouse to say the least to try any sort of recovery without first getting some advice. I would like to be able to restore everything to how it was but if thats not possible so be it. At a bare minimum though I would like to get the vista partition restored and some photos that were on ubuntu.
If anyone can help me at all I would be extremly greatful. Thanks