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installed ubuntu (11) ext4 over fat32

June 14th, 2011, 16:12

hi.

i just didnt think for a second, and did something very stupid.
i had my fat32 formatted usb drive connected to a notebook, which i was trying to setup/reinstall with ubuntu.
only when the setup was finished, with some error that it couldnt entirerly copy my profile (which makes no sense for me, it was a fresh install), and the notebook rebooted, and didnt boot ubuntu, but the old freebsd that i realised what i have done.
ARRR!!

any guides or websites i could read ?
i guess its rather unrecoverable, is it ?

cheers & thanks,
fil

Re: installed ubuntu (11) ext4 over fat32

June 14th, 2011, 17:36

90% unrecoverable

Re: installed ubuntu (11) ext4 over fat32

June 15th, 2011, 3:42

Most of your data is gone.
If you have very important data it may be possible still to recover some in RAW.

Re: installed ubuntu (11) ext4 over fat32

June 15th, 2011, 7:07

Overvritten data are usually unrecoverable..
you could try to scan the unused space for lost data
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