I accidentally selected my 500GB external hard drive when I tried to install Ubuntu using Unetbootin. I used it as an installer already. I haven't realized my mistake until I opened my external drive and saw my files gone and replaced with these
abi-3.13.0-24-generic lost+found memtest86+_multiboot.bin
config-3.13.0-24-generic memtest86+.bin System.map-3.13.0-24-generic
grub memtest86+.elf
I already tried Testdisk and I saw my NTFS partition but not my files. I recovered it using Testdisk, rebooted, but my external drive's contents are the same even though now Testdisk says
Current partition structure:
Partition Start End Size in sectors
1 P HPFS - NTFS 0 32 33 60796 249 61 976701440 [jjp.xhd.1]
Help! Whatshoudl I do now? Are my files unrecoverable because I already used my external as an installer?
<Advanced> File System Utils
menu. From there you can copy them to another drive. See askubuntu.com/questions/286181/…