12.10 install overwrote my windows partition
- by Niall C
Recently decided to switch back to Ubuntu. I have a 3TB drive which was running win7. I had 3 partitions.
c: for windows
d: data
e: data
Have installed ubuntu before so 'thought' I knew what I was doing.
I using netbootin I installed from a usb stick. I didn't choose the default options but I didn't choose the 'manual install' either. I can't remember what option I took but I figured at some stage it would tell me how it was going to partition the disk and at that stage I would see if it had recognised the NTFS partitions and I would be able to abort if it didn't.
Unfortunately, it didn't and just went ahead and installed Ubuntu and made up it's own mind on how it was going to partition the disk.
Usual story, the two NTFS data partitions weren't backed up.
Is there anything I can do to retrieve the ntfs data? I'm currently trying out testdisk and I know I can use photodisk to retrieve certain file types but all the filenames will be lost and it's going to take a hell of a lot of time to rename them all.
Any help or assistance would be more than gratefully accepted.
Thanks in advance,
Niall
