Recovering lost partitions

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balanga

Can anyone recommed a PKG for recovering lost partitions? I managed to lose them while trying to install Linux on a Windows based computer. I tried TESTDISK but the FreeBSD version was unable to detect any partitions whereas the Linux version was. Unfortunately it was unable to recover them.
 
Are only the partition tables lost or is there a chance the Linux install overwrote the actual data too?
 
SirDice said:
Are only the partition tables lost or is there a chance the Linux install overwrote the actual data too?
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I'm not sure how to tell. Using Testdisk on Linux it was able to identify various directory structures and partitions but it wasn't able to restore the file system or copy various files to an external disk.
 
balanga said:
I'm not sure how to tell.
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When you did the install did you follow through with it? And later realized you accidentally overwrote the existing data or did you bail out of the installer right after the partitioning?

If you followed through with the installer there's a high chance the original data was overwritten.
 
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