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How do I recover my partition table? [duplicate]

I booted from a Ubuntu live cd to format but I used Disks to view the partitions and accidentally fast formatted the disk without saving the files to my pendrive. Then I installed gpart to view the ...
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Recover data from partition overwritten by swap partition [duplicate]

I've just reinstalled Ubuntu, and I chose a partition full of data as a swap area. I didn't realize that the swap area would overwrite my files. Can I recover my partition or my data now?
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DATA RECOVERY from a NTFS formatted disk [duplicate]

While installing Ubuntu, by mistake I gave my C drive as the Swap space. It ended up formatting the logical drive(E, but not C !). I realised my mistake in the middle and forcefully ended installation....
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How to restore a partition that has been accidentally converted to a swap area

I was trying to install ubuntu manually from my external hard drive(which has ubuntu installed in it) to my internal hard drive.I created the swap area using mkswap command in a wrong partition(my ...
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How to view/mount other partitions on your hard drive

Recently I have installed Ubuntu 12.04 Beta 2 on a USB flash drive and decided to install it on an old external HDD which I have taken out of the casing and succesfully mounted in my desktop computer. ...
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ntfs D: Partition windows 7

I have similar problem, I installed Ubuntu 12.10 on top of Windows 7, I have all my files on a logical partition D: couldn't access that partition from Ubuntu. During installation I choose to encrypt ...
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