Accidentally reformatted a EXT4 drive to NTFS; lost all data. What are my options?
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Mar 15, 20264370 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I'm going to sound like a complete idiot here, but I was installing Windows 7 on a new partition, accidentally selected my Linux partition, and hit install. The installer (which had no "Are you sure you want to reformat this disk" alert, thank you very much Microsoft) ran for like thirty seconds be…
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Fix for: Accidentally reformatted a EXT4 drive to NTFS; lost all data. What are my options?
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TestDisk is probably your best bet here. Its very well known undelete tool.
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