Okay, long story short: HP has some major bios bug that causes many of their laptop-series to overheat... I has one of those, I did not realize until recently that it's too hot ( 72 degrees celcius, I like ho things ) and the computer started to act strange... So I had a visit on HP's webpage and saw that they only had updates to the bios that can be run from windows, I found an xp disk, backed up my computer onto my external drive (by moving files, not coopying), booted in to the xp installationprogram and it found one drive. I did a quick reformat on that drive, I didn't realise that it was the external one before I came back to my computer and were suprised by the Ubuntu loginscreen...
The external drive is an USB Western Digital 500gb, most space was inhabited by multimedia, of wich some Recuva found after a scan i 9h...
But actyally, i don't care about pdfs, mpgs, mp3s or anything of that.
I want to have my code back! They are not compressed or anything like that, it's just textfiles in UTF-8 encoding. Recuva might be the wrong tool for this? I would guess that the files are not that much fragmented at all.
I also had some xcf-files that I was about to be paid a 100 bucks each. I didn't find those eihter...
The drive was previously formattted w/ FAT 32, and it's now formatted into NTFS.
Please help!
Ty in advance!
