windows 8 data lost while installing ubuntu 14.04

Question

I had windows operating system. I have installed Ubuntu 14.04 operating system by over writing windows 8. But I lost 5 GB of data which was very important.

I tried test disk tool to recover data.But it couldn't recover the data.

testdisk

kindly help to solve this problem.

Is it possible for a linux data recovery tool to recover data from NTFS partition?

thanks in advance

But you said it's important data. Important data is backed up. — ta.speot.is, Oct 28 '14 at 09:00
But I niether took any backups nor installed backup software which would automatically backup the data — madhavan, Oct 28 '14 at 09:03
See this answer for how to image your drive and how to restore data using my NTFS file system reconstruction software: http://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/a/31377/19806 — Andrea Lazzarotto, Apr 18 '16 at 22:24

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 28 '14 at 09:03

If you installed Ubuntu right on top the W8 partition the chances are high that some of that data is lost.

Before you do much and destroy even more data: 1)Get yourself another machine. 2) Attach the disk to it and copy it with DD as backup or for extraction purposes 3) Mount the Copy and analyze it with SleuthKit and Autopsy.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DataRecovery

windows 8 data lost while installing ubuntu 14.04

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