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I had Windows XP running on my system and i installed Ubuntu which deleted all my drives and created a single drive in ext2 format. Now is there way i can recover my files.
I had two drives C: and D: and now there is just one drive with Ubuntu on it Any help appreciated
I am afraid there is not a lot what you could do. It sounds like you have deleted you windows partitions and install linux into a partition taking that space. During the installation this partition is newly formatted. Hence all of your data has been overwritten.
There might be a possibility that a forensic lab could find some "shadows" of the old data, since the magnetic information is not totally erased, but this is a very, very expensive process.
Sorry, to bring you bad news, please next time make backup before!
