[ubuntu-in] Recovering data from a formatted HDD

[Mallikarjun]

On 12/28/2010 06:39 AM, nagendra prasad wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Yesterday I formatted my HDD accidentally . I had win xp and Mint 
> installed. The issue is now my HDD is raw. I have some docs and photos 
> which I really want back. Is their any tool which I can use with any 
> live CD of Ubuntu to recover my data and partitions. Please help me.
As others mentioned Testdisk/Photorec are great. Problem with Photorec 
is that it will rename the recovered files. Also, there will be huge 
number of files, try to filter the recovery files by file type, which 
can save time digging into.  I recovered 65000 files from 4GB ubuntu hdd 
image, so you can imagine the number of files from normal HDD.
Testdisk -- Scan and repair partitions
Photorec -- recover lost files from partitions

Also try Foremost, which is also a very good tool.
>
> Best,
> Guru.