I was dual booting (Windows 8 + Kali linux) while kali was installing in my pc , i forcestopped it and the both OS has vanished.

Question

I loss my datas and files ... can i retrieve the from each drive eg. C, D, E, M, etc i have a lot of very important files folders in each Drive. so, Please help me getting them back safely. please. thank you.

Answer 1

You learned your lesson the hard way:
always backup First!
Unless you formatted the whole disk (including wimdows partition) win should still be there.
Check the secureboot options in the bios. Recent win needs secure boot that doesn't allow dual boot.
As per availability, you can access you drive as an external hd and recover the data manually from another computer.
Of course unlessyou formatted everything.
Good luck, you're not yhe first and you won't be the last...

Answer 2

PacktPub gives away its ebook on pentesting Windows with Kali Linux today:
https://www.packtpub.com/networking-and-servers/kali-linux-2-windows-penetration-testing

Answer 3

Some distros can be started from USB flash drives (or as 'live' media), then you can run tools like testdisk, ntfs-3g (to mount volumes) and other repair tools.

The most important thing: STOP writing to those drives. If you can, take a 'disk image' and recover/test fixes on your backup images.

Note: There is a potential fix in that your bootloader may be corrupt while everything else is mostly intact. Windows rescue media may be able to fix this, or sometimes there are recovery tools in the 'host protected area'--an option to start recovery may show as part of the power-on self-test (POST).

Answer 4

well you shouldn't dual booting , i think it would be better if you use VirtualBox or VMWare with no risk at all :) well to recover your data i think i have a solution.. try to make a bootable usb flash drive (8 GB or Higher to copy your data) install HCBD (Hiren Boot CD) goto BIOS and change the boot device priority to Removable Disk and you will able to boot into Mini Windows XP :) From there you can access your hard drive

Answer 5

Thanks.