apshu_sarthak

Yes that 5 Gb partition is recovery partition..infact it is 15 Gb OK let me tell u what i have done till now Using a Ubuntu Live USB to work on it. Used Gparted to determine the partitions it had and it shows that formatted partition as some unkown partition. Shows that its file systems are missing. I used terminal cmd to view the file list and it shows me the formatted partition. Then i used Testdisk to determine any damaged partitions but to my bad it doesnt shows the defected one there even after doing deeper search. i was thinking to format that partition to ntfs (Gparted shows that option). Now tell if i again format that damaged disk i guess memory sectors wont be overwritten and i can still recover my data ? and i didnt let the recovery run more than 5 seconds i guess. But as while trying to backup thru system recovery it shows me no user data i guess the question of non destructive recovery is on of use now.

C drive was approx 450 gb and D drive was approx 5 gb...they were partitions of the same HDD...and yes recovery of C drive is my sole concern

Its a sata drive...internal hard drive...and i guess the the drivers of ubuntu are ok coz it detects the other drive that is d drive.

@keatah u totally understood the problem i am having. the system is not booting now...its asking for complete system recovery presntly i am using Ubuntu Live usb to boot but it is again not showing my C drive..my D drive is shown but it had no data...the data it had are still there

I am using Ubuntu Live Usb to boot my laptop...and i was using my friends laptop for using the internet...so now i can boot it to linux...but it doesnt shows my drive..it shows other drive which was not formatted but the other one had all my data

I am not using that disk. In fact i am not using my laptop. what do i do..i mean the best and easy option Clone my drive? (i dont know how to do it) Install Win 7 on an external drive and then use my laptop thru it and use recuva to recover files? Or anything else I had two partitions...D drive being of 5 gb...and all my data was on C drive. suggestions?

Well i was thinking of installin OS on a usb stick and the use my laptop with it...then may be i can recover the data..will it be helpful anyone?

No i had no backup while in system recovery i switched off the laptop in a few seconds. It didnt start intalling the OS but i suspect it had already formatted the hard drive How do i clone my hard drive?

Ok first of all i am not committing a suicide. Having win 7 OS accident i started system recovery in a matter of 2 or 3 seconds i turned off my laptop...it was reformatting the hard drive. Now when i open it directly goes to system recovery. Cant do system restore. While trying to backup it says no user data found. so i guess the hd was reformatted. Now can i perform the system recovery install the OS again..and use recuva to recover my data...and to what extent can i recover data with dis software?

i accidently started system recovery in my hp laptop...out of fear i immediately turned off my laptop but from then on my laptop goes to windows startup repair...it cant do system restore...when i try to backup data it says no user data i had some very imp stuffs its better to commit suicide than loosing them. pls tell me if there is any way of recovering the data or solving this problem...please reply asap....what should i do now should i complete the system recovery and use a recuva or what?