Tyler Durden's Fight Club Blog

 

"It has been my philosophy of life that
difficulties vanish when faced boldly."
- Isaac Asimov


 Yesterday I was going to partition my hdd using Ubuntu gpart because partition magic has problems with my hdd. I was planning to delete the win 7 partition and D:\ and make it one partition.

I was foolish not to do a backup of all the important data first. But backup takes alot of time to do via DVD burning, unless I got a spare hdd which is much easier to just copy the data over.

But something wrong occurred during the startup of Ubuntu. that cause me to lose a few of my partitions
And those partitions were very important ones too. They were TV, TV2, download partitions.
Would have cost me a lot of time to get them back.

Of all the problems that can occur on a PC, loss of the data is the most devastating. It is hard to replace loss data and some data are not even replaceable.
Damage cpu, ram etc might be costly in dollars to replace, but they are quick to replace. Loss of data is hardest to replace and the cost is time. And some data can't even be replaced.

Lucky I managed to recover my partition using testdisk and easus partition recovery.
I use testdisk first which found my tv partition. But then when I restarted I loss my apps partition.
Then I use easus to recover the apps partition and tv2.
The most important thing was, that I made sure not to write to empy spaces where the partition was, else it might be overwritten and hard to recover.



"Success is a state of mind.
If you want success, start thinking
of yourself as a success."
- Dr. Joyce Brothers