I ran the rm -rf /
command on my kubuntu system and i ended all losing everything on my system.
I've seen several data recovery tools like foremost and testdisk but they all talk about running it from a live cd and getting the files from the existing partitions that are still there, but in my case i formatted my whole system and deleted the existing partitions and installed ubuntu afresh.
So is foremost
or testdisk
going to work since there is no partition again, if yes please post the steps, if no can you guys show me another alternative to scan the whole hard disk and find some of the lost files.