Recovery procedures of NTFS filesystem

[Jamon Camisso]

William Muriithi wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I just did a very damn mistake. I really can believe I can do such a
> silly mistake.  I was attempting to set a dual boot on a system with
> two hard disk . Some how, I wasn´t careful enough and when it came to
> time to point the installer to the destination hard disk, I did the
> reverse. I only came to learn of the mistake when I got the error that
> their is not enough space.
> 
> Now, I have a hard disk that had a NTFS file system but now has ext3
> file system. I don´t think the installer dumped the operating system
> on it. Is there any possibility or recovering the data from this disk?
> What would be the best tools and procedure to undertake such a
> recovery? I really did mess myself big here and would really
> appreaciate any help.

TestDisk should be all you need: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

Jamon

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