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Help Linux Crashed all saved work gone

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Hi,

Linux crashed on me when I was using Chrome browser. When I booted it again all my files were gone. Games, documents and pictures. I have a back up hard drive but I wont be able to get to it for a couple of days. Is there anything I can do to recover the files??

 

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5 minutes ago, Tedster said:

I'd suggest some sort of data recovery liveCD, I think you want to touch the affected drive as little as possible.

I have tried to touch it as little as possible. I have downloaded testdisk but I am struggling to get it work

 

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I think backtrack/kali has some tools for forensics like foremost that might work from a liveOS

or extundelete is a ext3/4 recovery utility 

You might try an undelete method, though actually corruption or destruction is different than intentional deletion. http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-ext3-ext4-deleted-files-recovery-howto.html 

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