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I had Windows 7 installed on a 500GB hard drive. I wanted to install Ubuntu on a16GB pendrive and use it as a hard drive. I made an Ubuntu bootable pendrive on a 4GB pendrive.

Then I booted my system from the Ubuntu 4GB pendrive. I inserted a 16GB pendrive to install Ubuntu on it. I choose the "Something else" option while installing Ubuntu. During the partition allocation and that process I deleted my 500GB hard drive (i.e. /sda) instead of selecting my 16GB pendrive. I came to know about this mistake when I tried to restart my system. It showed this message: Insert bootable disk.

Once again I booted my laptop with the 4GB Ubuntu bootable pendrive. In Disk Utility I saw that my 500GB hard drive has free space.

I have very important data on it. Please help me. It's very urgent.

bain
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gaurav vyas
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Since your HDD has 500gb and a UBUNTU install just needs a few gigabytes you have good chances that your Data just isn't adressed anymore but may still be existant. The Comment suggesting you to use TESTDISK is very promising though.

Here you got some more usefull information and tools : http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/15761/recover-data-like-a-forensics-expert-using-an-ubuntu-live-cd/

Don't Panic (-:

tuxaddict
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Here are some things to try:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DataRecovery

It only takes once to learn the hard way...always back up everything before messing around with new OS's and partitions

user250071
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great news.. I have recovred my partition.**finally a relief. thanx a lot. METHOD - I had a win XP live CD which had many application for partition n recovery n all .I found testdisk software in that and my partition was recovred within a minute. So inshort one has to **install testdisk any how . once he is done with that he can recover partition.Now there is a little problem that my system isnt booting through Win7 .error is that my boot messenger is missing / lost. i will repair it with my win7 CD.Thank you soo much . I can provide the image of WinXP CD with all tools .Just email me on gauravvyas45@gmail.com or gauravvyas45@hotmail.com

gaurav vyas
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