^I have tried - EASEUS Partition Recovery, Stellar Phoenix Data Reovery, Active Partition Recovery, Test Disk and finally Get Data Back.
Hooray!
I am so glad that you were able to recover all your important data. Trust me, when I say, that I know how does loosing important data feels like. Since my hard drive crashed once, and I lost my complete 1 year data. But I am happy for you.
BTW, did you used ALL those recovery s/w's one after another! Thats seems redundant!
as you have mentioned it shows warning to not to recover data on same disk. What is the harm in doing that?
Although ico has explained it, I would try to write that in my words.
If you recover the data of a disk on the same drive, you risk Overwriting the data which is Yet to be Recovered.
Live CD is wonderful but the option to install Ubunbtu inside Windows (Wubi) is most easy and hassle free
Performance penalty.
I think, ico means the performance of the installed Linux would lessen, since its like running Virtual OS inside the Main OS. For obvious reasons, an OS running INSIDE another OS, would not get as much resource, it would have got otherwise, the most prominent being the amount of RAM.
I welcome Linux users, to please correct me, since this was just a guess.
Ahh!! Relieved, I have successfully recovered all the really important stuff. Thanks @vineet369
You can use this to express your joy...
And you're welcome pal.
What should I create partition size for Ubuntu? I want to dual boot and I will not install any applications on Ubuntu just for OS files.
I have to install windows 1st then Ubuntu right? I will use WUBI it seems easy.
I think, a partition size of 30 GB, would be MORE than enough for a Linux OS. And yeah, Windows should be installed first, then you can proceed with Ubuntu installation.
@ico in this case can data be recovered to a different partition on the same disk ? or an altogether different disk is required?
I had a very similar problem, and recovered 80GB out of 300GB from a lost partition using getdataback I merely copied data to a different partition...
If data of only One partition is to be recovered, you can do so, on Any other partition, of the same physical drive.
But if you have lost ALL your partitions (which happens if partition tables have messed up), then an altogether different partition is required.