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Recover data from NTFS partition after being formatted to ext4

I understand this is EXTREMELY unlikely, I was just wondering if someone might have a tip or two? I have an external 500GB HDD that was formatted to NTFS and I (VERY stupidly...) left it plugged in ...
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How to completely erase hard drive? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How can I securely erase a USB hard drive? How to delete file(s) in secure manner? I am looking for software/script/whatever that can completely destroy data on hard ...
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How to overcome “error fsyncing/closing /dev/sdb input/output error” and recover data from drive?

I have a Seagate 500 gb external HDD. When I connect it to my laptop it gets detected but when I click the icon to open it, it states Drive needs to be formatted. If I say OK then after some time it ...
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Backup programs and program data?

Hi AskUbuntu community, I'm going to format my hard drive and install a new version of Ubuntu. I want to backup some programs, not only sync data, I want to have ready-to-restore apps and their data, ...