How to RECOVER Home Data after installation

Misam Shah · Post by **Misam Shah** » Fri May 22, 2009 4:55 pm

AOA All,

Can any please help me out in recovering the /home folder data

I re-installed the machine after formatting the drives. I am using Ubuntu 6.06. Waiting for a prompt reply to resolve.

Best Regards,
Misam Shah

Muhammad Saad · Post by **Muhammad Saad** » Fri May 22, 2009 8:08 pm

From what I can understand from your description, you have to specify the partition's mount point as /home during the installation.

Misam Shah · Post by **Misam Shah** » Sat May 23, 2009 8:42 am

AOA Saad,

Thanks alot for the reply but sorry couldn't get you.

What I did I re-installed an Ubuntu machine, and after completing all the work I looked for my previous data

which I thought that I've taken its backup; but unfortunately I forgot to backup my /home folder data and formatted all the partitions

The most important /home folder contained some very critical data of mine.

Now can you or any one tell me how to RECOVER in this situation??

Best Regards,
Misam Shah

Manners Taliban · Post by **lambda** » Sat May 23, 2009 6:29 pm

http://www.xs4all.nl/~carlo17/howto/undelete_ext3.html

i've never tried it, and i don't know if it'll work for you.

Misam Shah · Post by **Misam Shah** » Mon May 25, 2009 12:26 pm

Thanks dear, will let you know shortly.

Muhammad Saad · Post by **Muhammad Saad** » Sun May 31, 2009 9:16 pm

Assalam-o-Alaikum lambda,

What do you think about foremost? Will it work in Misam Shah's case?

Manners Taliban · Post by **lambda** » Sun May 31, 2009 11:49 pm

i doubt that anything will work reliably in his case.