retrieve ntfs/windoz files after installing ubuntu/droopal appliance
Submitted by scdickey on Sun, 10/11/2009 - 23:32.
I have a buddy that somehow installed a droopal appliance over his windoz vista installation. I am trying to recover a couple of critical files that may still be untouched on the disk. Can anyone shed light on the proper sequence of utilities to use and if there is any chance of his data still being there?
thanks in advance.
scd
Yes, there is a chance the
Yes, there is a chance the data is still there. Use file-carving software like photorec to scan the entire drive. You will need another drive that is just as large (or larger) than the original onto which you will save the files.
From the live cd or another live Linux CD with photorec, run this command and follow the prompts:
sudo photorec /dev/sda
You may need to changed "sda" to "sdb" or something else. /dev/sda is usually the first disk.
When you plug in you target drive, it will be mounted in /media, so when photorec prompts you for a target directory to save the files to, it will probably be /media/disk-1/
Good Luck.