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I installed ubuntu 14.04 over my 13.10 but was trying to keep my data so I deleted all partitions (I didn't have a separate home directory) used manual partitioning and allocated 12 GB of my HD for installing the new OS. Everything went fine and 14.04 installed ok. But now I don't know how to recover the data in the free space that I left unpartitioned. I tried partitioning that space without erasing data and mounting it but when I opened it it was empty. How can get my data back?

Thank you

P.S. I have backed up my most important files but still it would save a lot of time if I could get the rest back.

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  • the problem is that you deleted your partitions so your data is kinda lost..
    – AlexGreg
    May 12, 2015 at 9:50

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You have to try some Data Recovery tools which may help you to restore some of your old data.

From R-tools Technology:

R-Linux is a free data recovery and undelete utility for Ext2FS/3FS (Linux) file systems. File recovery after power failure, system crash, virus infection, or partition reformation, even for the different file system. Unformat and unerase tool. The utility creates image files an entire disk, partition or its part. Such drive image can be processed like regular drive

You can download 64 bit verion from here.

To install

sudo dpkg -i rli_en*.deb

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