Greetings. I have just managed to lose all my data.
In preparation for upgrading my Linux installation, I bought and
installed a WD USB 500 GB external drive. I copied all my data from my
SuSE 9.2 partition to the external drive. I rebooted to my WinXP HE
partition and saved my data to the same external drive. I then deleted
the old SuSE partition and installed Ubuntu 8.041 LTS where SuSE had
been. I rebooted into Ubuntu and looked for my folders on the external
drive. They are not there or, if they are there, I can't see them. Only
the Windows folders remain.
I assume that, when I saved the Windows folders to the external drive,
they wrote over the files that were already there, i.e. the folders from
my previous SuSE Linux installation that I had saved there. It was not a
case of space - I had saved about 75 GB of files from my SuSE partition
and only about 10 GB of files from Windows (that I rarely use).
Is there any way that I can retrieve my files?
TIA. Kelly
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