[ubuntu-in] my files in hard disk is not visible

[Ramnarayan.K]

Hi Ginto,

welcome back :-)

On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 6:56 PM, ginto joseph <ginto.joseph8 at gmail.com> wrote:
> i think that its the problem of windows, since i use both in my computer.
>

Ok seemingly your problem is
a) identifying the problem

then
b) getting a solution

please go through this thread and see some of the suggestions and try
and follow them up

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to repeat an earlier suggestions

post the results of

from a terminal (Application - accessories - terminal)

sudo fdisk -l

and
df -h

 can copy paste the results by selecting with a mouse and ctrl+shift+c
(for copying in a terminal) and ctrl+v (for pasting  into the mail)

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Kindly confirm the following:

1. you are using Ubuntu and Windows together, am assuming that it is dual boot.

2. Next what was this partition used for - was it the partition that
contains your windows OS or was it some data partition.

3. Is your wincedows (windows for some) Anti Virus updated and current
or is your Wincedows vulnerable.

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You could use testdisk or photorec to try and recover your files - for
this you will need a separate partition which has free space larger
than what you are missing.

Photorec is more directed towards missing files while testdisk does
much more it can recover whole partitions.

Do both on a trial basis - it runs of command line so can be stopped at anytime

BUT PLEASE READ THE MAN PAGES AND ANY OTHER ONLINE DOCUMENTATION
BEFORE USING. because while these are helpful the actual data recovery
is in your hands and any mistake will be yours.

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Suggestion is to first use photorec (instead of testdisk) - Both can
be installed via synaptic (System - Administration - Synaptic package
manager)

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Don't format your hard disk just yet - Linux is if not anything else
very very good at recovering data.

ram