Which will list you files and directories that can be recovered in that partition, something similar to this: (NOT to us!) that init scripts kill ntfsmount or mount.ntfs-fuse duringĪnd you’re sure Windows is not using the drive, you can add the –force parameter $ sudo ntfsundelete /dev/sda4 -force Please report to your distribution developers Using ntfsmount and shutdown system properly, then init scripts in yourĭistribution are broken. NOTE: If you had not scheduled check and last time accessed this volume Please boot into Windows TWICE, or use the ‘force’ option.

PS: This does not guarantee you that your deleted files can be restored, some files the possibility of recovering them is 0% Now I’m going to delete these files and directory: $ rm delete_test/file1 Here I change directory into /media/donjajo/562283C82283AB95 and created a directory with delete_test containing these files: But here I’ll be working with my /dev/sda4 and I try to mount it, it say it’s already mounted which it was mounted at /media/donjajo/562283C82283AB95 Which will list your drives as NTFS is usually related to Microsoft, It is called Microsoft basic data here as you can see I have 3 of them there. To find an NTFS file system drive, type this: $ sudo fdisk -l Lucky me it was on another partition which was NTFS, Ubuntu comes with a package called ntfsundelete or you install it with:

Lately I mistakenly deleted my pending movies directory where movies I’ve not watched are, this was so painful to me how I was about to loose all those movies 🙁.

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