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An error occurred in the partitioning stage of an Ubuntu 10.10 installation on my computer that caused me to restart and now all of my other partitions are gone.

Is there a way to recover these files?

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It is possible that your partition table was corrupted but your partitions are still there.

There is a tool available in the Ubuntu LiveCD called gpart that can recover your partition table.

http://www.brzitwa.de/mb/gpart/index.html

Load the Live CD, install it (sudo apt-get install gpart) and then run gpart.

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  • This is probably your best shot at recovery. Sep 19, 2010 at 20:31
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There is a good explanation of how to do this at the Ubuntu wiki: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DataRecovery#Lost Partition

It explains how to use the gpart tool, as well as a utility called testdisk.

There's a great article on the same subject, including data recovery, at UbuntuGeek: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/15761/recover-data-like-a-forensics-expert-using-an-ubuntu-live-cd/

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