Need some serious help here

[S1ght]

K,

So I had set aside a spare hard drive to load ubuntu on, the other day my brother took a hard drive out of my parents pc and put it out on the table by my pc, I ended up taking that hard drive instead (since I thought it was the one i set aside)...now I'm feeling pretty screwed.

Any advice as to how to proceed? Can a recovery be done on a hard drive thats been formatted to ext4?

Thanx in advance
S1ght

 

[SuperAntMD]

Not that I know of but if you can you'll get the answer here. Hang in there man

 

[xumwun]

You may have some luck with this
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
However you should only attempt fixing it yourself if you really know what you are doing or you will just make a bigger mess.
Once my drives filesystem got screwed so badly that the computer thought that it was fat12(supposed to be NTFS) and I used the above mentioned program to fix it.

 

[S1ght]

Thanx will try that program and see what it picks up

UPDATE - 5 hours later and about 30-40 of 80 gigs recovered, which is fair amount in my opinion

 

[xumwun]

Thanx will try that program and see what it picks up

UPDATE - 5 hours later and about 30-40 of 80 gigs recovered, which is fair amount in my opinion

Well if data has been written to that drive after the format then some that has been overwritten will be gone for good.