Recover deleted partitions using Testdisk in Ubuntu #11
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- Опубликовано: 19 окт 2024
- If you accidentally deleted a partition in your hard drive and are desperate to get your data and the partition back relax! this video is for you. In this screen cast I show you how to easily recover the deleted partition along with the data in that partition.
You'll need to install Testdisk and follow the instructions in the video.
Comment and suggestions are always welcomed. 
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Thank you, I have revovered an external disk with 2.0 tb of data!
Nice choice of music too, it helps relaxing in such dire moments..
Thank you so much man! Even after 12 years of posting this video is still relevant. Thank you for your hardwork. And my heartfelt thanks to whoever have developed testdisk software. I got back the stuffs I lost in an unfortunate event. May God bless both of you ❤️
Lifesaver!! I had to do a deep scan because I aborted a partition resize. After scanning about 2% testdisk found the original partition and restored the partition table. Note to self: never abort a partition resize. ;)
I almost never comment on videos, but I have to for this one:
Thank you so much! Was seconds away from reinstalling OSX when I came across your video, the instructions are almost identical for Mac, and I now have all the files I was sure I had lost.
These instructions still worked(with some modificatiions and despite me being drunk) in 2024. Thanks for sharing.
I wish I had known about this about a month back when i accidentally removed a whole partition with EVERYTHING.
Thank you lots!
Thank you my friend, let me tell you, you have just saved my life! I accidentally deleted my Windows partition which contained some VERY important files and photos that I hadn't had time to backup yet, and following your excellent instructions I managed to recover the partition absolutely intact. The moral of this story I suppose is, back up back up back up! Thank you very much.
THANK YOU!!!!!!! I just managed to restore all my business work of more than seven years from a failed lost partition drive using your method from a virtual machine.
Thanks for posting this so long ago! I was careless and cleaned the wrong drive in diskpart. This video and testdisk saved the day!
This worked after I mistakenly wiped a Windows 7 install from my second hard drive (sdb/sdb1)..during a Windows 7 install from boot disk. Yeah..OOOPS!
Since My sda drive was running Ubuntu Studio 18.10 and i immediately rebooted back into the Ubuntu environment,
installed testdisk using 'sudo apt-get install testdisk' command at a terminal.
Then ran gparted as su launching 'command sudo gparted' from same console.
For some reason, Ubuntu Studio seems to disallow me any use of gparted unless i do this.
Then followed your steps from there. Results?
FULL RECOVERY. THANK YOU!!! Saved a very careless mistake on my part about 175GB of data.
10 years after your initial post, its on point my dude. Thank you!!!
Great stuff..I lost hopes after trying to recover files from Windows..Thanks for the eye opener tutorial..recovered my files totally from all partitions.kudos to you :)
Omkar Thopate Broo You need to have to Install Testdisk first
Thank you very much ! You are a lifesaver. I followed your easy instructions and BINGO the 2 TBs of data I had accidentally wiped have been returned intact. Cheers.
I owe you a hundred of beers! Your video helped me out recovering a data partition.
Thank you very much for your help, this video was very helpful. I recovered all the information that I need from a disk which, I drop the partition by mistake with DISKPART by using the CLEAN command thanks again.
Thank you so much. I had a GParted Live USB drive that I had used to accidentally delete an important partition. It turns out testdisk was on the same USB drive and I just needed to run terminal to use it. Thanks again.
THANK YOU SO MUCH GOD BLESS YOU , I AM A PHOTOGRAPHER AND LOST THE PARITION WHEN TRYING TO REZISE IT! I had tons of very important files !! thank you so so much !!
I loaned a WD 1TB My Book to a friend and it came back w/o being able to access the files - over 350GB of music and 200GB of photos! The error stated that "the disk was not formatted do you want to format now?" I chose "No" and used TestDisk (on Win XP) to try to find the partition. It found the right one in a backup sector (the primary sector was bad) and rewrote it. Works great now, all files are accessible. Thanks! You might want to tell people where to download TestDisk.
i like this video, it was really very clear, simple English. this really happened to my computer, its my first time to use Ubuntu. i have been following your directions closely now i am going to restart the computer now and i see if it helps me recover my partition. Iam really excited .
Your awesome! You just saved me at least $300, which is what it would have cost to take my external hard drive to someone for recovery.
Saved my life, man. You are amazing. This tutorial is easy to follow and worked for me
THANKS A LOT DUDE ,DUE TO YOUR WONDERFUL VIDEO, I RECOVERED MY ALL LOST DATA..THANKS A LOT AGAIN.....
This is the best video I have ever seen on RUclips. Thanxxx man !!!
I accidentally wiped my dual boot setup trying to put Ubuntu 14.04 over 12.04, and although most of it is stuff that doesn't matter, there is some importantish data, and I feel like I complete idiot. I haven't finished trying the steps here, but THE MUSIC, oh, god, I could have run over a small child and still felt good about myself, listening to the happy music, listening to a kind gentle understanding voice.
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@amzertech - here's what happened I have a computer with dual boot Ubuntu and Windows, I decided to delete Ubuntu coz it's for my gf and she doesn't know how to use it. When I deleted the partition in Computer Management, it also deleted the Storage files of my Windows partition.
My face got cold blue, and my mind started to fade out. Glad I searched in Google recover deleted windows partition ubuntu then I saw your video.
I will watch all your videos on the weekend. Thank you sir! Subscribed!
good man you just saved me from awful embarrasment i have subscribed well done
This is an *excellent* video. I may create a Live CD for TestDisk as a Plan B for a PC that may not startup.
Thanks for the vid; greatly appreciated! I accidentally formated one of my FAT32 partitions on my external harddrive on my PowerMac G5, I tried booting into Ubuntu and Kubuntu with a live CD, like I always do when things go awry, (for GParted and Partition Editor) but they both didn't boot :( Now, I'm scanning my 1TB HDD for that partition, thanks again. BTW, what screencasting program do you use?
Yep, it worked thanks!
for me the partition was green and set to L or logical. This only worked when I set it to D for Deleted, and it turned green and i could access it finally
Thanks for the detailed tutorial. Files are back!!
The music made me hate life, but it worked out for me. Most of the data stuff I know how to do involves when the drive is defective or damaged. (Using Safecopy) so I was glad there was an easy way haha.
Thanks. I am deep searching the lost part partition now. I hope this works
Thank you very much, I found files back on my NTFS partion after I deleted them on Manjaro...
thank you for info about deleted partitions. After shutdown my ubuntu i have lost data.The partition does not mounted and does not show info about free space etc.
Actually i working on this for rescue my data.
Thank you!!
This is THE greatness!!!!!!!
worked like a charm 4me!!!
i used it in win7
thx man
Excellent instructions. Worked like a charm.
Saved my ass in 2024, appreciate you
Thanks for the video. I have an XP HD which cannot be seen in XP, but in TestDisk it is there as are the files.. If I hit Write will is there any chnace that it will delete my files... 496GB of them? I have subscribed so will get around to looking at them all. Good job!!
THANK YOU SO MUCH, DID EVERYTHING YOU SAID AND IT WORKED. I GOT BACK EVERYTHING. AGAIN THANK YOU VERY MUCH!
way to go dude, thank you so much!
Hey, you can avoid the reboot by using partprobe. Every partition on the drive should be unmounted to be successful. It works in the most cases... Best regards!
Great tutorial ! I hope you can save my friend's disk !
Question: how do you make this screencast? Kazam?
Wow, looks really good! I'm running windowsXP and Ubuntu on differant drives, and my windows one seems to be corrupted. I tried doing exactly what you did in the video, but I still can't boot windows...or even see any of my data. Any ideas why?
good knowledge provide in the video..i would also like to know which screen recorder application you are using in ubuntu.
Thankyou, You saved my data and money !!
Thanks for uploading this useful toturial, I lost partition when installed ubuntu , should i run deeper search or when it asks me in vista say yes? and what next to do
Saved my data! Thanks very much!
Thanks, man! This tutorial was great! :D
I luuuuuvvvv that back round Music
This is a great tutorial but I still was not able to recover the partition just shows no partitions available. I believe the partition table got screwed after a power fail while writing was happening. Have you used Scalpel/Forensics if you have can you please put a tutorial together, thanks in advance. BTW, your tutorials are awesome!
I am going to see if I can use this to recover my brother's HP laptop OS. He deleted the OS and the HP recovery partition. He didn't know what he was doing and thought he did.
Thank you, but my partitions merged into one after installing a fresh copy of Xubuntu.
How do I separate them again?
i would like fisrt to thanks you for your effort
i'm a new use for ubuntu and when i installed it i figured out that i lost all other partitions that i had while i was using windows
my qst is how did you skip the "sudo pass" after taping "sudo testdisk" ?
thanks
It works, thank you so much you saved my life :)
i am install Ubuntu but my old windows OS all partition data totally loss.
How can windows data to get back in Ubuntu?
same here! Please help!
Same here any one here to help
Very nice tutorial sans the circular back ground music. Too loud to concentrate on what is being said.
Nevertheless, I accidentally soft formatted (Quick) a 1TB USB storage external HDD. Could you please provide some help? Looking forward to hear from you. Have a nice time and take care. :-)
hi got a question, great vid btw. I partitioned my hard drive in 2 parts. I realized that I accidently made the 2nd partition too big so i changed it back to 1 partition and at that point i lost all my data. Will this work? I'm trying it now and its not working so just wondering if i should keep at it.
amazing video! Thanks!
I Love You. You just saved my life bro. Thanks
Can you please tell me, How to get back of formatted external hard disk data?
I recently installed Windows on my pc and by mistake when i had to choose which hard drive to install i deleted my other hard drive thats Ubuntu with important data any idea how can i recover my Ubuntu system and partitions.
Hi, very good video. I'm using Linux Mint and I deleted accidently the unique hard disk partition. Next time I turned on the cumputer I had no access to the O.S. (underline blinking at the corner of the screen) so I boot from a Linux Live CD installation and follow this instructions. After that I rebooted it and still no O.S. found in hard drive so here I am in the Live CD again. The partition e showed as ntfs in g-parted (should it be ext?) but still can't find my stuff.
Awesome!!!
Thanks so much for making this video.
Thank You For Help ... My problem got solved 👍
I'm getting a lot more partitions that I had created, and all are showing Deleted.
Please help me out finding which one is bootable and what are legacy and primary options?
i deleted them all using the command key ' rm -f -r /home/ '
then tried recovering it using this demo graph. i did everything you did and i can't find my files afterwards. most of my files where on my desktop. plus the testdisk says there's more data in my hard drive as if it was restored. are they in a certain file i need to find? i'm kind of lost what should i do next? should i redo the process?
Meu HDD é de 4TB e aparece partition Protetion GPT, será que também funciona e não perco meus dados?
@XohshitztonysbackX yes, it does! i recovered a partition in windows 7 (it was created in windows xp)
gud tutorial..but In my case I Installed ubuntu 13.04 it formmatted all the four partition and made only one partition of 500 gb. I followed all your instruction as showed in this video tutorial but i do not find any partition.Please suggest me if any other possible way to recover data... Thanks have a nice day
I have a question. I have a 16gb SD card and I deleted the NTFS file not knowing that it will mess up my data. Could I used this to download an NTFS back into my sd card?
I am prety sure that in this case you dont need to reboot to see the recovered partition, the partprobe command should be enough
i have a ssd having windows 10 and a 1TB hard drive having Linux(PopOS). Few days ago i was re installing the windows and i accidentally deleted the drive having Linux on the windows partition menu screen. Now i have unallocated space of 1TB. Is this possible to recover the whole drive or the data inside the drive. My data was inside the Downloads folder of the PopOS. Please Guide , I'll be grateful to you.
An OK tutorial if you have the simple, easy, problem of a simple freshly deleted partition. What about when you have a more complex situation such as when Linux has grabbed two NTFS partitions and converted them to Linux partitions - how do you recover from that? All the data is still there (I can see it with PhotoRec) but I want the partitions back so as to avoid a horrendus recovery job.
The secret is to not perform any actions on the lost partition such as create a new partition etc. I switched the HDD that was affected OFF as soon as I had realised that I had screwed up and TestDisk worked perfectly. Your situation sounds more complex. Good luck.
My disk had three partitions on it that was setup by Windows 7 as a boot drive. The first part was the boot part, the 2nd I thought was the main part, and the 3rd part I thought was the recovery part. I recovered the 2nd part and it turns out it was the wrong one. I tried to recover the 3rd part with no luck. Any suggestions?
What do you do in case of an EXT4 partition?
Accidentally i have lost my all partions after installing Ubuntu, How can i recover my partions? Is there any solid way...?
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Thanks . You saved my day
Right I've had trouble dual booting Linux and have made Many attempts to install thus making several partitions, I'm now fed up and I'm just completely installing it I'm going to use the whole hard drive and delete everything off my windows os, will I still be able to use the whole hard drive?
Hello, i Linux my data unfortunately deleted .only empty folders left. Please tell me how should i recover them in directory manner.
thank you it was a big help
hi , i needed to do the deeper search since my whole harddisk was formatted by the clean command in command prompt , now the search is complete and many partitions are listed here , so how should i select the particular partitions to recover them ( the next step is enter to proceed and then write but before that how to select the partitions to recover them ? )
Go to Ubuntu Software Center and search for Synaptic. Install it. Once it's done and you open it, click first on Reload (it's a must). After this, search for "testdisk" and when you find it, click on Mark to install, then Apply. It'll install Test Disk.
Good luck.
hi, i have a question a made a mistake while installing ubuntu , and i deleted my xp and all the data i really dont care about recovering xp, but i need to recover all my data, can this software do that???nice vid
Thanks a lot, this saved my day
that was very helpful!!!
Thanks a lot. . .this was life saver for me. . thank you very much
Question please, I deleted by mistake my External HardDisk WD. I tried to recover it but no hope!
When I used TestDisk the HDD appears in the Drives list.
So, now how can I get to it?
I cannot find it in the Computer icon. I guess it says "un-allocated"
What should I do? Can you help please?
Thanks
Sweet, thanks for sharing!
Hello, my computer runs windows 7 and linux. I had 4 partitions in total. 1 for windows and the other 3 for linux. I completely messed up and deleted 3 partitions on my hard disk. I cannot start my computer, but I can boot from a live linux CD. I want to perform this procedure on my computer to recover the deleted partitions but, wanted to know if I could do this on the 3 partitions I deleted and how to do it.
Thanks!
Thanks you so much.
@amzertech, I accidently overwritten all my partition together and installed a new version of ubuntu. Although the important datas were in one of the partition which is about 200GB. The ubuntu has taken up only 3GB on my 250GB HDD. So is it anyway possible to recover the data using this method? Cause it is not just partition delete, but an overwrite.
Bro , I know it's long time, but did you find any solution?
Thank you!
I think the drive wasn't formatted properly (taking some space) or there were other partitions along.
Also...the fat32 partition I was trying to recover was on a external USB enclosure.
Amazing bro. Can i take a hug with you?
Thank you so much 😍😍
replaced win7 with ubuntu but deleted all my previous partitions during the install process( accidentally, didnt know its gonna delete other partitions, sign of dumbness ,,lol.. ).. so can i recover those partitions which had mostly the pictures in it.
bulletbugs I did the same too :( , could you solve it?
+bulletbugs did you find a solution? I made the same mistake
@bulletbugs I did the same too.. did u find a solution please let me know..
Hai.. anybody got solution.. Please help me also
I also do the same mistake during installation
I had an external hdd 500gb with two partions - one a mac time machine back up (HFS+) the other FAT32. on ubuntu i hit the format button with the wrong hdd seleted and it deleted both partions and created one fat32 partion. should Testdisk be able to get back my partions or at least my FAT32 partion?
frnd,
i deleted my E and F drives accidentally,now both volumes are mixed and became single volume of unpartitioned space,so please suggest me how to recover it using ubuntu 12.04 live,
and shall i need to create the same volumes which i had deleted previously,or making a single partition is enough for the operation..
please give me reply as soon as possible...
Bro. I want to change the size of partitions without damaging the data on partitions.
Is it possible?