I second ntfsundelete. They didn't have a bootable ISO when I needed it, but it worked wonders for a friend of mine. You will definately not recover the files which got overwritten by the Ubuntu distribution. However if his mail is all in one file, I doubt he will manage to recover it without some other utility to repair the PST file.
Good luck indeed On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 7:49 AM, Jean Azzopardi <[email protected]>wrote: > First of all, he has to stop using the laptop until he finds a way to > restore his files, otherwise the data can get overwritten, and it's > pretty much kaput from there. (unless you pay a skilled extractor) > > I've used http://ntfsundelete.com/ (free) to recover deleted files. > They provide an ISO image which can be booted from. > > There are other good solutions, but they might not be free. > > Second, he really needs to get used to backing up his data. > > On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 6:47 AM, Joseph Markham <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > A friend of mine installed 'buntu on his laptop (which contained Windows) > > > > He formatted the thing and ended up removing the windows partition: All > > he has now is a 50Gb ext3 partition and a lot of empty space... > > > > Is there any way he can recover his win files, specifically his mail ( > > outlook.pst ) file? > > > > Thanks > > > > Joseph > > _______________________________________________ > > MLUG-list mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list > > > _______________________________________________ > MLUG-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list >
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