On 15 September 2011 00:32, shivam tiwari <bigbang4u2@gmail.com> wrote:
> /dev/sda1 fat16
> /dev/sda2 ntfs
> /dev/sda3 ntfs
> /dev/sda4 extended
> ** /dev/sda5 linux-swap
> ** /dev/sda6 ext4
> unallocated unallocated
>
> sda5 and sda6 are in dropdown list of sda4

5 and 6 are logical partitions _inside_ the extended partition of sda4. [0]

> I have windows7 installed on sda3, ubuntu 10.10 (upgrated to 11.04) on sda4
> and new ubuntu 11.04 on sda6.
>

I suspect you have done a new install over the top of whatever you had
in 4, and have now lost it.

Al.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_partitioning#Extended_partition

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So is there any way to retrieve those files from my system

On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 7:42 PM, Alan Pope <alan@popey.com> wrote:


On 15 September 2011 00:32, shivam tiwari <bigbang4u2@gmail.com> wrote:



> /dev/sda1 fat16

> /dev/sda2 ntfs

> /dev/sda3 ntfs

> /dev/sda4 extended

> ** /dev/sda5 linux-swap

> ** /dev/sda6 ext4

> unallocated unallocated

>

> sda5 and sda6 are in dropdown list of sda4



5 and 6 are logical partitions _inside_ the extended partition of sda4. [0]



> I have windows7 installed on sda3, ubuntu 10.10 (upgrated to 11.04) on sda4

> and new ubuntu 11.04 on sda6.

>



I suspect you have done a new install over the top of whatever you had

in 4, and have now lost it.



Al.



[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_partitioning#Extended_partition



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On 15 September 2011 00:45, shivam tiwari <shivam.tiwari2009@gmail.com> wrote:
> So is there any way to retrieve those files from my system
>

It was somewhat of a guess on my part. So you'd need to confim that's
what happened. The file /var/log/installer/partman on your Ubuntu
install on sda6 may reveal it. Maybe you could post yours on pastebin?
It requires sudo to read that file.

Al.

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Here is file as you needed http://pastebin.com/0dxLVJif

On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 7:52 PM, Alan Pope <alan@popey.com> wrote:


On 15 September 2011 00:45, shivam tiwari <shivam.tiwari2009@gmail.com> wrote:



> So is there any way to retrieve those files from my system

>



It was somewhat of a guess on my part. So you'd need to confim that's

what happened. The file /var/log/installer/partman on your Ubuntu

install on sda6 may reveal it. Maybe you could post yours on pastebin?

It requires sudo to read that file.



Al.



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On 15 Sep 2011, at 01:17, shivam tiwari <shivam.tiwari2009@gmail.com> wrote:

Here is file as you needed http://pastebin.com/0dxLVJif


"parted_server: OUT: 4 * 329984073728-640133980159 * * **310149906432* * primary unknown /dev/sda4 * * *"
This indicates to me that you 4th partition didn't have Ubuntu on it. Did you install multiple times over the top of that partition?
Either way whatever was on it is now gone. Do you have backups?
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> Hi,
>
> In my gparted it is showing me following partitions
> /
> /dev/sda1 fat16
> /dev/sda2 ntfs
> /dev/sda3 ntfs
> /dev/sda4 extended
> /dev/sda5 linux-swap
> /dev/sda6 ext4
> unallocated unallocated
>
> sda5 and sda6 are in dropdown list of sda4
>
> I have windows7 installed on sda3, ubuntu 10.10 (upgrated to 11.04) on sda4
and new ubuntu 11.04 on sda6.
>
> The problem is I am not able to moutn sda4 on my ubuntu 11.04 which is on
sda6
> when I checked in gparted sda4 says "Busy (At least one logical partition
is mounted)" in its status information. I have lots of data on this drive, and
I want to read all that data.
> Kindly help me

Hi

/dev/sda4 is an extended partition. You can not mount an extended partition.
The thing is, there can only be 4 primary partions on a hard drive. The forth
partition is an extended partition where you can have more primary partitions.
What most probably happened was when you installed 11.04 it created an
extended partition from sda4, I doubt you will be aible to retrieve any info
that was on ext4 before it became an extended partition. You will have to use
your backups.

Chris

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Is there any good recovery tool by which I can retrieve data

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 2:24 AM, Alan Pope <alan@popey.com> wrote:




On 15 Sep 2011, at 01:17, shivam tiwari <shivam.tiwari2009@gmail.com> wrote:



Here is file as you needed http://pastebin.com/0dxLVJif


"



parted_server: OUT: 4 * 329984073728-640133980159 * * **310149906432* * primary unknown /dev/sda4 * * *

"
This indicates to me that you 4th partition didn't have Ubuntu on it. Did you install multiple times over the top of that partition?


Either way whatever was on it is now gone. Do you have backups?
Al.
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On 15 September 2011 14:18, shivam tiwari <shivam.tiwari2009@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there any good recovery tool by which I can retrieve data
>

You're almost certainly pretty much out of luck. Your new install has
written over the top of whatever was on the disk originally.

You might get the odd fragment back but you'll be unlikely to get
significant amounts of it. You could take it to a data recovery
company and see what they can get back if it matters to you that much,
but you'll end up paying through the nose for it.

Al.

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On Thu 15 Sep 2011 15:27:55 SAST, Alan Pope wrote:

On 15 September 2011 14:18, shivam tiwari<shivam.tiwari2009@gmail.com> wrote:

Is there any good recovery tool by which I can retrieve data



You're almost certainly pretty much out of luck. Your new install has
written over the top of whatever was on the disk originally.

You might get the odd fragment back but you'll be unlikely to get
significant amounts of it. You could take it to a data recovery
company and see what they can get back if it matters to you that much,
but you'll end up paying through the nose for it.

Al.



Hi Shivam,

You can try extundelete from
https://sourceforge.net/projects/extundelete/. Like Alan said, you
might not be able to recover all your data, but you might be able to
retrieve some or perhaps nothing at all (worth a shot).



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