Recovery procedures of NTFS filesystem

[Jose]

William Muriithi wrote:
> Camisso,
> 
> The tool just seem to think its ext3. I think its not intelligent
> enough to look beyond the file system table - to look at data themself
> - and under take the reversal I am attempting. Would this be true or
> is it that I am not using it well?
> 
> Regards,
> William
> 
> 2008/6/30 Jamon Camisso <jamon.camisso-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org>:
>> 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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Have you tried using a ubuntu live cd, their partitioning tool is pretty 
intelligent reading different types of formats
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