I had a computer with a windows 7 and I installed lubuntu 14.04 on another partition (I think I shrinked the windows NTFS partition first). I installed lubuntu this way:
-> NTFS boot
-> NTFS windows 7
-> extended partition
-> "/" (ext4)
-> "/home" (ext4)
-> MAYBE there was a data partition in ext4 (I don't remember, not my computer)
-> swap
After installation, when you booted on windows (in GRUB), it didn't work and it kept rebooting each time.
Today I decided to reinstall windows 7 so here is what I did:
- I launched on lubuntu, installed gparted and removed both Windows partition.
- I made one big NTFS partition with the intention to install windows 7 on it.
- I installed windows 7
- It erased my "/" and "/home" partitions (but they aren't reformatted)
I don't even know why it did so, maybe because I should have kept the windows partition unformatted and the boot partition created erased linux. Seriously, I'm very surprised.
So now, here are two questions:
I) How can I retrieve all the data from "/home" ? I suppose it's not removed for now since I didn't write anything on these partitions as of now.
II) What caused this accident?