amynvirani

No. The cut folder was not inside the system/windows partition. It was on another partition. I might have written some data on the harddisk but i dont remember whether it is written on the same location as was the data but I can give it a try. Please give me instruction to follow so that i can attempt to recover my data at the earliest. I didnt shrunk or expanded the partition but I guess i did delete the partition for a fresh windows installation. I hope i can still recover my data. P.S. I DONT KNOW EXACTLY THE NAMES OF THE FILES WHICH ARE LOST BECAUSE IT WAS AN OLD BACKUP BUT ITS IMPORTANT. ALL THAT I REMEMBER RITE NOW IS THE NAME OF THE MAIN FOLDER WHICH CONTAINED OTHER FILES AND FOLDERS WITHIN IT.

I tried connecting the external harddrive again with Ubuntu but the files were not there. The Ubuntu laptop can also run windows and I have installed widows 7 on that yesterday. The partition format was NTFS. Actual the external drive is nothing but just a laptop hard drive which I connected through usb converter with the laptop to use it as external.

This is what happened. I connected a harddrive to my laptop on which I was running Ubuntu. I cut a folder from the laptop and pasted it in the external harddisk. Then when I connected that external harddrive on my other laptop running windows 8, that folder was gone. Any way to recover that whole folder with all of its contents? Need help urgently.