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post #1 of 10

8/25/12 at 4:39am

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Alright, I'm not sure what exactly happened when I was trying to install Linux Mint, but I think I somehow deleted my Windows 7 Partition and basically screwed myself.

I have 2 drives, Caviar Black and Green. Black was my boot drive, Green has some game stuff. Nothing too important.

I'm not sure what drive has what on it, because under GParted, it says /dev/sda for both drives... but I *think* I deleted the Windows 7 Partition and made the Linux on my Black rather than my Green.

Looking at my drives, my Green has my normal stuff on it, and a partition of 50GB (which is what I wanted to put Linux on).

My Black looks like it has 50GB of ext4 (Linux), and 884GB unallocated space.

My question is, can I just get my Black drive back to normal, with just Windows 7 installed with all of my files/folders?

Or can I somehow recover ALL of my data, back it up on my Green, and do a fresh install? I'd rather not do that option, but if I have to then I will.

Linux novice, so much help is appreciated.

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8/25/12 at 2:30pm

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A bit of an update, it seems my Black might now be partitioned to GPT instead of NTFS (It's still unallocated except for the 50GB Linux is on).

I ran testdisk to check under Intel (created in Vista), and came up with this:

Not sure where to go from here.

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1 TB Western Digital Caviar Green	1TB Western Digital Caviar Black	ASUS DVD-R/RW DRW-24B1ST	Corsair A70 CPU \| Aerocool 140mm Blue Shark
OS	Monitor	Keyboard	Power
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Case	Mouse	Mouse Pad	Audio
Lancool K62 Dragonlord	Logitech G5	XTRAC Ripper XXL	Gamecon 377
Other	Other
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Hard Drive	Hard Drive	Optical Drive	Cooling
1 TB Western Digital Caviar Green	1TB Western Digital Caviar Black	ASUS DVD-R/RW DRW-24B1ST	Corsair A70 CPU \| Aerocool 140mm Blue Shark
OS	Monitor	Keyboard	Power
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit	Acer H203H 1600x900	Razer Black Widow Ultimate (MX Blue Switches)	Silencer S61EPS 610W
Case	Mouse	Mouse Pad	Audio
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8/25/12 at 4:58pm

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Try to verify that your windows data got deleted, Try to browse to your windows data while in Mint.

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8/25/12 at 5:19pm

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The only thing that's going to get that data back is data recovery software. Since it's now GPT instead of MBR your going to have to read the raw data and try and piece together whatever files you can (More to the point, since you reformatted and destroyed the original FS). You aren't going to get Win back. You probably won't even get most of the files back, what you do get isn't going to be named either so it's a lot of work sifting through the random file names. Sorry to say, this is what happens when you don't pay attention. When you went to format in Mint it will say the target drive's partition format. You should have seen it having NTFS and been like "what do I have that is formatted to NTFS?". That's how it goes, best of luck to ya.

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160G WD	LiteOn DVD-RW DL	Linux (Fedora)-Win7	19" Phillips TV 1080p
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OCZ 600W	Generic Junk	Logitech MX400	Generic Junk
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8/25/12 at 5:26pm

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I figured as much. Currently I installed Win7 on another drive and I'm running Lost Partition Recovery.

Going to take a few hours. Hopefully I can at least get some pictures back.

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CPU	Motherboard	Graphics	RAM
i5 2500k @4.2	MSI Z77A-GD65	MSI Twin Frozr III GTX 570 850/1700/2200 1.074V	Kingston HyperX 2x 4GB (Black)
Hard Drive	Hard Drive	Optical Drive	Cooling
1 TB Western Digital Caviar Green	1TB Western Digital Caviar Black	ASUS DVD-R/RW DRW-24B1ST	Corsair A70 CPU \| Aerocool 140mm Blue Shark
OS	Monitor	Keyboard	Power
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit	Acer H203H 1600x900	Razer Black Widow Ultimate (MX Blue Switches)	Silencer S61EPS 610W
Case	Mouse	Mouse Pad	Audio
Lancool K62 Dragonlord	Logitech G5	XTRAC Ripper XXL	Gamecon 377
Other	Other
Logisys 8" Blue Cathode	NZXT CB-LED20-BU Sleeved LED
View all

CPU	Motherboard	Graphics	RAM
i5 2500k @4.2	MSI Z77A-GD65	MSI Twin Frozr III GTX 570 850/1700/2200 1.074V	Kingston HyperX 2x 4GB (Black)
Hard Drive	Hard Drive	Optical Drive	Cooling
1 TB Western Digital Caviar Green	1TB Western Digital Caviar Black	ASUS DVD-R/RW DRW-24B1ST	Corsair A70 CPU \| Aerocool 140mm Blue Shark
OS	Monitor	Keyboard	Power
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit	Acer H203H 1600x900	Razer Black Widow Ultimate (MX Blue Switches)	Silencer S61EPS 610W
Case	Mouse	Mouse Pad	Audio
Lancool K62 Dragonlord	Logitech G5	XTRAC Ripper XXL	Gamecon 377
Other	Other
Logisys 8" Blue Cathode	NZXT CB-LED20-BU Sleeved LED
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8/25/12 at 5:32pm

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Quote:

Originally Posted by xTank Jones16x

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I figured as much. Currently I installed Win7 on another drive and I'm running Lost Partition Recovery.
Going to take a few hours. Hopefully I can at least get some pictures back.
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Oh, pictures/small files generally come back at a high percent. Outside of that your SOL. The more blocks the file takes, the larger the possibility of it being spread out over the FS (fragmented). The more fragmented a file is, the less you tend to get it back. It's best if the file is written evenly across the blocks so the file header and data are all aligned. If they aren't, you will probably get a corrupt file which generally doesn't help you much.

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160G WD	LiteOn DVD-RW DL	Linux (Fedora)-Win7	19" Phillips TV 1080p
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OCZ 600W	Generic Junk	Logitech MX400	Generic Junk
Audio
SBL 5.1
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CPU	Motherboard	Graphics	RAM
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Hard Drive	Optical Drive	OS	Monitor
160G WD	LiteOn DVD-RW DL	Linux (Fedora)-Win7	19" Phillips TV 1080p
Power	Case	Mouse	Mouse Pad
OCZ 600W	Generic Junk	Logitech MX400	Generic Junk
Audio
SBL 5.1
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8/25/12 at 5:49pm

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Ya just some pictures is all I care about. Music is on my iPod and I can just re-download all my stuff.

Thanks for the info.

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Hard Drive	Hard Drive	Optical Drive	Cooling
1 TB Western Digital Caviar Green	1TB Western Digital Caviar Black	ASUS DVD-R/RW DRW-24B1ST	Corsair A70 CPU \| Aerocool 140mm Blue Shark
OS	Monitor	Keyboard	Power
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit	Acer H203H 1600x900	Razer Black Widow Ultimate (MX Blue Switches)	Silencer S61EPS 610W
Case	Mouse	Mouse Pad	Audio
Lancool K62 Dragonlord	Logitech G5	XTRAC Ripper XXL	Gamecon 377
Other	Other
Logisys 8" Blue Cathode	NZXT CB-LED20-BU Sleeved LED
View all

CPU	Motherboard	Graphics	RAM
i5 2500k @4.2	MSI Z77A-GD65	MSI Twin Frozr III GTX 570 850/1700/2200 1.074V	Kingston HyperX 2x 4GB (Black)
Hard Drive	Hard Drive	Optical Drive	Cooling
1 TB Western Digital Caviar Green	1TB Western Digital Caviar Black	ASUS DVD-R/RW DRW-24B1ST	Corsair A70 CPU \| Aerocool 140mm Blue Shark
OS	Monitor	Keyboard	Power
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit	Acer H203H 1600x900	Razer Black Widow Ultimate (MX Blue Switches)	Silencer S61EPS 610W
Case	Mouse	Mouse Pad	Audio
Lancool K62 Dragonlord	Logitech G5	XTRAC Ripper XXL	Gamecon 377
Other	Other
Logisys 8" Blue Cathode	NZXT CB-LED20-BU Sleeved LED
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8/25/12 at 5:57pm

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Yeah, been there/done that too many times to count. Friend dropped a laptop, drive didn't fail right away but then one day it went down. Bad sector count was off the roof, thing was going to be dead quicker than not. So I got whatever pictures I could, was a photographer. I tried to tell them, bout all you can do.

CPU	Motherboard	Graphics	RAM
Phenom II x4 B45 3.6GHz	M3A770DE	HD 7950 (1100/1450)	8G Muskin DDR3 1600@8CLS
Hard Drive	Optical Drive	OS	Monitor
160G WD	LiteOn DVD-RW DL	Linux (Fedora)-Win7	19" Phillips TV 1080p
Power	Case	Mouse	Mouse Pad
OCZ 600W	Generic Junk	Logitech MX400	Generic Junk
Audio
SBL 5.1
View all

CPU	Motherboard	Graphics	RAM
Phenom II x4 B45 3.6GHz	M3A770DE	HD 7950 (1100/1450)	8G Muskin DDR3 1600@8CLS
Hard Drive	Optical Drive	OS	Monitor
160G WD	LiteOn DVD-RW DL	Linux (Fedora)-Win7	19" Phillips TV 1080p
Power	Case	Mouse	Mouse Pad
OCZ 600W	Generic Junk	Logitech MX400	Generic Junk
Audio
SBL 5.1
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8/25/12 at 6:06pm

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Any good software you recommend to recover anything in case this software doesn't come through?

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Hard Drive	Hard Drive	Optical Drive	Cooling
1 TB Western Digital Caviar Green	1TB Western Digital Caviar Black	ASUS DVD-R/RW DRW-24B1ST	Corsair A70 CPU \| Aerocool 140mm Blue Shark
OS	Monitor	Keyboard	Power
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit	Acer H203H 1600x900	Razer Black Widow Ultimate (MX Blue Switches)	Silencer S61EPS 610W
Case	Mouse	Mouse Pad	Audio
Lancool K62 Dragonlord	Logitech G5	XTRAC Ripper XXL	Gamecon 377
Other	Other
Logisys 8" Blue Cathode	NZXT CB-LED20-BU Sleeved LED
View all

CPU	Motherboard	Graphics	RAM
i5 2500k @4.2	MSI Z77A-GD65	MSI Twin Frozr III GTX 570 850/1700/2200 1.074V	Kingston HyperX 2x 4GB (Black)
Hard Drive	Hard Drive	Optical Drive	Cooling
1 TB Western Digital Caviar Green	1TB Western Digital Caviar Black	ASUS DVD-R/RW DRW-24B1ST	Corsair A70 CPU \| Aerocool 140mm Blue Shark
OS	Monitor	Keyboard	Power
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit	Acer H203H 1600x900	Razer Black Widow Ultimate (MX Blue Switches)	Silencer S61EPS 610W
Case	Mouse	Mouse Pad	Audio
Lancool K62 Dragonlord	Logitech G5	XTRAC Ripper XXL	Gamecon 377
Other	Other
Logisys 8" Blue Cathode	NZXT CB-LED20-BU Sleeved LED
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8/25/12 at 6:18pm

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Recuva normally works pretty good from my experiences getting stuff back from clients/family computers.

http://www.piriform.com/recuva

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